Baking Christmas treats is always fun, for us girls, and for the guys, cause they enjoy eating them!
Chocolate covered pretzels is a Christmas tradition. Sometimes we do dark and white chocolate, but we just did white this year. We also made peanut butter cookies and m&m cookies!
And my favorite tradition............... GINGERBREAD HOUSES!!!!!!
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| It's takes quite a while to bake the pieces, which is why we only do this once a year! |
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| and, of course, you have to have lots of candy, pretzels, animal crackers, etc. We have gotten quite creative with our little houses! |
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| we use icing for "glue"...... |
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| we sometimes have trouble keeping them from falling apart..... |
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| Nathan and Bethany made farms using pretzels for fences and animal crackers for cattle and horses.... |
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| Nathan invented (and patented) the balcony! |
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| we put green icing on waffle cones and peppermints or gumdrops for pine trees and bushes.... |
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| we took quite a while perfecting our creations... Mom and Dad were wondering if we were ever going to finish! =) |
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| Caught in the act!! |
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| this is Daniel's house.... he finished quickly then looked at all of our's and decided he needed to add some things! |
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| this is mine... it's hard to see it, but in the back of the house is a feeble attempt at a swing set... |
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| this is Bethany's farm...... |
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| and Nate's farm.... his balcony stayed up this year! =) |
Tomorrow they will be destroyed, but it was fun making them, and it will be fun eating them!
Cute!!!!!! We LOVE them! The pretzel fences are such a great idea. I couldn't stop exclaiming over them ;-) We're working on baking our own 'walls' at the moment ... we've never done gingerbread houses, so we'll see how they turn out! It should be fun.
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