Valentine Cottages

If you just plain ran out of time in December to make gingerbread houses (like we did!) Valentine Cottages are the perfect solution.  We took a Sunday afternoon and decorated graham crackers houses with all sorts of pink and red candy, cereals, and frosting.  I even had some luck finding deeply discounted and very useful mini candy canes and peppermint sticks. It was a sugar high free for all for about an hour.  I'm sure even the neighbors could hear us! Everyone built they're cute cottages on white cake stands and they are now on display in the dining room.  We had so much fun doing this, we might purposely scoot this tradition right out of December so we can do it again next year.