One of my favorite family/holiday traditions is making gingerbread houses together. Our family has done this for many years. We buy the kits from the store, bring them home and make an entire day and night out of it. Our family likes to do many things together and this happens to be one of them. See, here's the thing. We don't build ordinary gingerbread houses. We add our own Cuban touch to them. Food coloring is added to the frosting in order to make it red, white, and blue (the colors of the cuban flag). We have a collection of toothpicks with the Cuban flag on them to put on food or in this case, our own gingerbread creations. Sometimes, we like to make a village out of gingerbread houses if we have enough time and enough people. When my mom decides to get very creative, she makes little people out of clay and we bake them. They too, of course are wearing traditional Cuban outfits such as top hats, traditional cuban tops such as "guayaberas", and dresses. These houses were full of standing palm trees, and snow (even though I'm not exactly sure how that can be realistic, but we made it work). This is always such a fun family event! This year, we made four houses. Two were big, and the other two were smaller. To decorate, we used gum drops, candy canes, clay figures, sprinkles, frosting, peppermints, and all kinds of popcorn. Even though I think my house won, they beg to differ :)
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