Gingerbread House Cake

How soon after Christmas do you take your Christmas decorations down? Are you ready to toss the tree to the curb on Boxing Day, or are you one of those people that leaves it up until Spring Break? In our family, we're somewhere in between. We leave our decorations up through New Year's, but they're usually taken down and boxed up before we go back to school. We love ourselves some Christmas spirit...but we recognize that there are certain limits. Which you might find hard to believe, considering that we are posting a gingerbread house recipe on January 11th.

Fair point.

Tennis Raquette Cake

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So, I actually made this cake a couple weeks ago, but we didn't have this blog then, and I still want to tell you about it because every time I think of it I get a little bubble of pride!

It is a delicious chocolate cake (the same one featured in my last post) shaped and frosted like a TENNIS RACQUET surrounded by little vanilla cupcakes frosted like TENNIS BALLS. The occasion? My brother's tennis team's end-of-season party! Yup, a bunch of teenage guys (I'm sure some  girls my age would be super happy at this news- but I was not. They are old. And my brother's friends. And loud. And annoying.) came over to our house with their parents, and we had up to thirty or so people in our house (that's a record), only three of which I really spoke to (my mom, my dad, and my brother) and maybe seven of which I knew the names of. Fun. Not. I read a book the entire time and was interrogated by interesting characters- and thankfully saved by my dad before the conversation got to the point where I probably would have, very un-tactfully, practically ran away.

But what was fun was receiving all the compliments about my cake!