Oh deer – I’ve let another few months slip by without posting a single thing to my blog. I had a very busy November and early December – three trips!! And a very busy Coco Cake Land Autumn. Mix that all up with some existential cake career angst. And now here we are, practically deep December as soon as we blink our eyes into tomorrow. Our Christmas tree is up and sparkling and accidentally extra tall. I laced the Christmas lights around the beautiful-scented thing myself – and when I got to the very bottom, all proud of myself, I realized there was no plug-stickie-things to plug into the extension cord, just the… female side (ugh, I do not know electrical plug terminology) of the string of lights?? I make no sense but neither do these Christmas lights. So I haphazardly jammed another string of random lights from maybe the early 2000s into one of the upper strings, dangling down the back of the tree, trying to achieve plug-in status. I achieved it! The whole time Teddy kept saying “just let DAD do it” haha… nope. I PERSEVERED! Then, we played “Night Club” (Teddy’s idea) and at “Night Club” you get to do whatever you want (ok…??) so we had nachos for dinner and watched the Charlie Brown Christmas movie. If you’re at all feeling the Christmas Blues this season, watch a little Snoopy Flash Beagle to cheer up your mind.
I made this sweet faced little pink deer cake friend for one of my sweet faced little friends – adorable Saya who turned nine years old in September. It’s funny, right now I feel like the Sahara Desert in terms of cake designs and ideas. Like painfully dry of any cake creativity. I wonder if my cake mojo will return? It always has in the past… a surreal and mildly stupid story: I was in San Francisco with my dear mom last weekend, it was her 75th! birthday wish to see Hamilton The Musical – and I was in the hotel room mindlessly watching the Food Network (I don’t have cable so flipping through garbage-goodness TV like Say Yes to the Dress is a real treat) and there’s yet another holiday baking challenge of some kind on the food channel, but this time it’s for cupcake pull-apart cakes. And the example they chose to show for what a cupcake pull-apart cake was somebody’s version of my cake, the very hungry caterpillar cupcakes party train from 2009!!! I laughed out loud and Home-Aloned my face with my hands – bizarre that I should be watching this random show and see my cake design cited like that. I’m sure some lowly paid production assistant just did a quick google and grabbed the image off the internet.
Ah, to be as casual-smiley as this pink deer cake! I should take a page from its pink buttercream emblazoned face. Zen Christmas, everyone!! xo Lyndsay
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