Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen #33: Birthday Cake for Jesus

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This week the girls and I made a Birthday Cake for Baby Jesus. This is a Christmas tradition I would love to keep. I planned on having it Christmas Eve after dinner, before our Candle Light service at church. As we ran out of time we ended up eating it with our snacky lunch on Christmas Day. I think it worked out great.

We just made a simple white cake using a mix as I wanted it to represent Jesus' purity and holiness.

Pouring in the mix.

Adding the water.

Hannah helped add the oil then I added the egg whites. That was something new I showed the girls, how to separate egg whites from the yolks. 

They all took a turn mixing.

Got the pans ready and Miss Hannah thought she would touch.

After the cake was done I used my Magic Bullet to grind up mini candy canes. I used 13-15 but didn't need near that many, maybe 8 would suffice, I am not sure. 

I used it to sprinkle over the first layer of white frosting.

Then I added the second layer, frosted it and added mini candy cane decorations. I used one candy cane for the "J" in Jesus name. 

We used the candy canes because one other tradition I wanted to start was to read the book The Candymaker's Gift and focus a bit on candy canes. They received one in their stocking too. You can find out more about why I decided to do this in my Legend of the Candy Cane 25 Days of Christmas Blogshare post.

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