I baked a chocolate cake for fun! Also to eat! Not by myself, mind you. I baked it to share with friends. Again, also to eat.
Do you need any other reason?
First, I had to set the mood with some wintry music:
Music for baking
Don’t laugh. I can listen to that album in the scorching summer, too.
I decided to decorate a little winter scene instead of just plain white frosting, this time. I had many ideas pop into my head, but I’m not quite skilled enough to pull off children sledding down a hill, so I went with snowflakes and trees:
Sketch
Looks simple, right? Well, it was (for the most part) until I got to the part where I was going to make the trees. I wanted to use brown frosting for the tree trunks and then add green for leaves or pine needles, but I was running out of time and the brown came out all wrong:
Not brown frosting
If I had a ton of time and frosting, I could have made a fancy evergreen tree out of that, but I thought I’d just go with simple:
Cake (photo courtesy Kathryn O'Shields)
Kim and cake (photo courtesy Kathryn O'Shields)
Pretty!
I mean the cake … 
