December 2023

My daughter is a December baby and I’ve always been very careful to separate her birthday from Christmas. But this year, she was game to embrace the month and go full bore with a Christmas cake and a gingerbread house decorating bonanza.

The trickiest part for me was to figure out how to make the climbing Santa… especially a climbing Santa carrying a tree. Looking at the cake now, it seems like Santa could have really used a longer ladder. It kinda seems like he’s looking up, wide eyed, at the ladder thinking “How in the world am I supposed to get up to and ON the dang thing?!”