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Baking and Making and deoo-rating!

Yesterday evening was our night to decorate our CHRISTmas tree. It is a long standing tradition in my family to eat certain cookies and guzzle eggnog as part of the festivities. Never in the past have I deviated from this tradition- until this year.
Why? Well, I didn’t purchase those special cookies while on my last shopping trip (the traditional cookies have always been a certain ritzy store bought brand)—I didn’t want to make a special trip just for the cookies and I really truly didn’t want to pay the horrid price of said cookies. So, I- me the traditionalist to the extreme when it comes to Christmas, bucked the system.
BUT- one cannot decorate a tree ‘til its branches scream for mercy unless one has proper sustenance.
So, what’s a girl to do? Go to the pantry. I found an Amish store gingerbread cake mix (just add water- marked $.88) and a container of cream cheese frosting. Mr. Conductor heard me scrounging around in the pantry and came to investigate. He then agreed to be my chef.

One cannot be a good cook unless one taste tests. A-okay! It passes the test.

The boy and I decided to be totally fancy and make it a two layer cake on a pretty Christmas plate. I let him dig out the Christmas sprinkles . . . .  He wanted his Nutcrackers in the photo too.
Made with Love.
Perhaps we’ve also made a new tradition?
Hmmm.

Cake

4:51 PM, 2007-Dec-10 .. Posted by Anonymous

Yummy!! That looked so delicious. What a fun activity to do with your son.

Laurie
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