I don't know what just happened to November. It feels like it was just Halloween, and I blinked, and tomorrow is December. I better not blink again or I will miss Christmas!
Our family just got back from a fantastic week's vacation on the Texas Gulf coast for American Thanksgiving. A couple of weeks before we left, an old work friend from Labatt got in touch to request a cake for his girlfriend who is leaving for a month's vacation to Colombia. She's going to be away over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, so he wanted to celebrate early with her. Along with her birthday. And Hanukkah because she's half Jewish. And hey, why not just have a cake for all those celebrations at once! Oh, and can we add in a Colombian flag for good measure?
I wasn't sure if it was the best idea to agree to make this cake, given the timing of our arriving home from Texas on Saturday and delivering the cake on Sunday, but I decided to give it a go. It was too fun of a cake (and too good of a challenge) to pass up.
I think my friend was envisioning a sectioned-off cake with quadrants depicting each of the celebrations, but I suggested we combine all of the elements in more of a mash-up.
So here we have Christmas:
Our family just got back from a fantastic week's vacation on the Texas Gulf coast for American Thanksgiving. A couple of weeks before we left, an old work friend from Labatt got in touch to request a cake for his girlfriend who is leaving for a month's vacation to Colombia. She's going to be away over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, so he wanted to celebrate early with her. Along with her birthday. And Hanukkah because she's half Jewish. And hey, why not just have a cake for all those celebrations at once! Oh, and can we add in a Colombian flag for good measure?
I wasn't sure if it was the best idea to agree to make this cake, given the timing of our arriving home from Texas on Saturday and delivering the cake on Sunday, but I decided to give it a go. It was too fun of a cake (and too good of a challenge) to pass up.
I think my friend was envisioning a sectioned-off cake with quadrants depicting each of the celebrations, but I suggested we combine all of the elements in more of a mash-up.
So here we have Christmas:
And New Year's Eve, depicted by the gold clock face and shooting stars at midnight:
Her birthday is represented by birthday candles and the 26. (You'll never guess how old she is turning.)
And finally, half of the candles are Hanukkah blue, and the other half are the red, blue and yellow of the Colombian flag.
Before we left for Texas, I made all the little Christmas figures out of modeling chocolate, and cut the candles and clock face numbers out of fondant. (The numbers are white fondant cut-outs that I spray-painted with gold edible food spray.) I also baked and froze the chocolate cake before we left, so all I had to do today was make the chocolate buttercream, stack and crumbcoat, cover the whole thing with white fondant, and assemble all the puzzle pieces. It's a good thing I did all that pre-work, or I would be going all night long!
Totally fun, super cute, organized chaos, am I right?
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