Holiday Train

The weekend I got home, mom and I were invited to help decorate some truly innovative holiday creations! Miriam and her sister Meredith--both good friends of the family--have a yearly tradition of baking elaborate surprises for David's House for the holidays, and this year was certainly no exception. First and foremost, the train!


When we arrived, we found two large trays of Fruity and Coco Pebble treats, which yielded the building blocks of the train. There were also bags and boxes of various candies, which we ended up using as the embellishments. After about three or four hours (I lost track of time!), we had a finished product:

The second project they had planned was the snowmen cupcakes. The cupcakes had been prepared and frosted already, so all that was left to do was to build the snowmen. We ended up developing something like an assembly line for these--my job was to draw the faces! After a while, we had an army of 4 dozen snowmen:

To round out our evening, we assisted in the decorating of some Santa cookies (as part of yet another assembly line!).

Happy Holidays!