I posted the last few cards today (except those to people whose new addresses we are hoping will be printed on this year's cards), and Jessie and I decorated the Christmas cakes.
We have a family tradition of the youngest member of the family decorating one of the cakes. For a dozen years from Joe being 2 to Jess being 6 or 7 this resulted in chaotic and overloaded designs, and on one occasion an hilarious video of Josh(4) loading the cake with angels and santas while Jess (18 months) was quietly (and unnoticed until we viewed the tape) nibbling away at the icing round the edge of cake which, when she was standing on a stool, was just level with her mouth.
Nowadays Jess (12) draws a careful design and follows it. This, for Liz, is why it is more fun to make and ice your own cake rather than get one from Tesco.
Jessie's cake to her original design for this year, and my cake, this year's variant on my usual design.
lizdavies
That sounds like icing fun, not baking fun. I too decoratd my own pre-iced Tesco cake and had that sort of fun. My cake has a plastic fir tree on it, and looks restrained but festive, I feel.