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Every Christmas Day as a little girl, I would run through the dining room so recklessly, that the place settings and light fixtures rattled like sleigh bells.\u00a0 My mission was to sneak a taste of my mother\u2019s \u201cChristmas Party Cake\u201d perched high on the dining room hutch.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t dare cut a piece of the cake, or swipe a bite with a fork, oh no.\u00a0 Instead, I would drag a dining chair up against the hutch, climb up, and\u00a0 \u201csecretly\u201d poke my finger into the frosting.\u00a0 By the time the carloads of family arrived for Christmas supper, something was clearly amiss. The white, fluffy frosting around the entire cake would be dotted with poke marks, like footprints dashing through the snow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Christmas Party Cake was the centerpiece of our holiday dessert spread, year-after-year.\u00a0 Made with three bouncy layers of old-fashioned pound cake, stacked between a generous helping of whipped vanilla buttercream, this cake was simply divine.\u00a0 Moreover, the richness of the poundcake allowed for smaller slices, so in the event an extra cousin or friend-of-the-family joined, there was plenty of cake to go around.\u00a0 However, what made this dessert truly stand out had little to do with how many guests it served, or even how delicious it tasted. Rather, what made this cake so outstanding was how downright delightful it looked.<\/p>\n
Covered in a pearl-clutching display of holiday cake decorations, Christmas Party Cake livened up the dessert table in a very special way.\u00a0 Above the three-tiers of cake and buttercream was every Christmas-themed cake topper imaginable.\u00a0 From Santa on his sleigh, to Mrs. Claus, tiny trees, reindeer, snowmen, and string lights, this cake was a winter wonderland on a cake stand.\u00a0 The more toppers, the more razzle-dazzle, the merrier.\u00a0 Not quite tacky, just very merry, indeed!<\/p>\n
I would give anything to go back and share one more of these holiday cakes with the family members from our Christmases way-back-when.\u00a0 Oh what fun it was to sit, eat, and laugh with grandparents and loved ones, some whom have now passed on.\u00a0 However, one of the magnificent things about a great family recipe is that it connects us indefinitely with our past.\u00a0 The same flavors, the same comfort and joy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year I will serve a Christmas Party Cake at my own home in honor of those former Christmas gatherings.\u00a0 My mother, \u201cBobbie\u201d now lives with us in Charleston, and will celebrate with my husband Chris and me, along with our children, Madison, Molly, and George.\u00a0 And as this wonderfully whimsical cake sits on my dining room hutch this Christmas Day, I will surely mosey in and poke my finger right into that delicious frosting, just as I did so many years ago.<\/p>\n
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,<\/p>\n
Emily Mingledorff<\/p>\n