After years of experience making gingerbread houses with my family I have added a few short cuts to the preparation and execution of this annual tradition. I now buy multiple boxes of graham crackers, and more cans of premade frosting. We use paper plates for the foundation and plastic knives for the spreading of frosting. I buy about 10 different kinds of small candies.
This tradition has become more of a competition about who can have the biggest house with the most candy used. We should really call it Christmas Boxes. Each house is built more like a fortress with a hollow center where the candy is hidden. Who ever has the most candy with out the house collapsing is the winner. Our houses are not for decoration but for consumption within a day.
This year we had a couple extra guests who went about buliding the traditional houses. They were frustrated because the frosting wouldn't harden and hold their candies in place. No one told them the "rules". Even with frosting difficulties their houses were the beautiful.
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