Christmas bakes and makes

So lots of ideas floating around in magazines and pinterest for Christmas crafting and baking.

First of all, I tried the popular way of doing reindeer cookies by using gingerbread men turned upside down . Here's a batch I made earlier ...



Since we can't hold of washi tape here in Queenstown I got hold of green masking tape instead! I originally did a star but Iain told me to take it down as it looked like star of David or something like that! So then thought about making a tree which I did first and then thought it looked too bare so added the candy canes!!

Bear Cake

So third child's first birthday, thought about just doing a plain cake for him, but don't think I could get away with that when he's older and looks back at the photos and sees what I made for his older brothers! I knew that I was going to make a bear cake for him as we call him Hudsey Bear. Originally I was going to do Paddington Bear, so had the cakes baked for that an oblong for the suitcase and two round cakes for the bear. Was still unsure what to do then, two days before his birthday party I came across bakeaboo cakes and she does amazing cakes which included bears!! So inspired me to try and do the same for Hudson.

Luckily the cakes were perfect to use to carve into a bear, enough for the body. I couldn't be bothered and also I think I didn't have enough ingredients to bake more cake, so decided to make cake out of Rice Krispies, which was perfect to get the shape right.

So here is my cake for our one year old.