“…at the Christmas Party Hop!” (What exactly is a party hop, anyway??) Yesterday I decided to make a cake for a an amazing person whose birthday happens to fall three days before Christmas. I imagine that it’s not always fun having your birthday so close to the biggest holiday of the year- your special day may totally get forgotten in all the hustle and bustle of the season. So I pulled all these ingredients out, and turned this:
Into this Winter Wonderland Cake: 
It is a pretty simple cake, although it looks like you spent hours and hours creating it! Here’s how:
1. Bake a cake in a bundt pan. 
Here is a great recipe for turning a box mix into a pound cake with the additions of butter, water and pudding mix!
Cool the cake, and invert in onto your serving plate.
2. Frosting: you certainly can use the kind in the tubs, I did for this, but I added some more confectioner’s sugar, cream and vanilla to boost the flavor. Then I added the green food coloring, but I saved a little of the white for the top layer of drizzle. Fill a pastry bag with the colored frosting.
3. Make your trees from ice cream cones. Take a “star” tip in a pastry bag and fill it with whatever color frosting you want the trees to be- green is good, pink or purple is fine too! Holding the cones at the tip, and starting at the bottom, pipe rows of stars, pulling them out a little so they look shaggy. 
As you go along, every fourth or fifth row, turn the cone sideways and sprinkle with decorations-cute, huh?
When you get just to the top, put the cone down on wax paper and then add the frosting tip of the tree. Frost your forest, then allow to dry.
4. Take whatever colored frosting you have remaining, and put it in a microwave-safe bowl and begin to melt it. I use the high setting and check it every 15 seconds until it is a runny consistency. Don’t burn it!!!!
5. Now using a spoon or fork, drizzle the icing back and forth over the cake until it is covered. It sets quickly so you have to work fast. Then take the white icing and melt it the same way. Doing one section at at time, drizzle the white icing onto the cake, sprinkle some coconut, place a tree into place and push gently to secure it. Repeat with remaining icing and trees until you have a wonderland!
6. Final step: take confectioner’s sugar and a little sifter and sprinkle all over the entire cake to give the illusion of snow fall…pretty!! Now serve it to the very special birthday girl : ) and sing a little “Happy Birthday Party Hop” 
Hope you have a sugary sweet Sunday everyone!! Two days until Santa arrives!! Susan
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