Preparando Per Natale.…Preparing For Christmas…

The decorating is done,  gifts are wrapped,  and this lovely rainy day has me in the mood to start my Christmas baking… it's almost here!

Quasi Natale… Almost Christmas…

It will be Christmas before I know it… there are so many things that I want to do,  and make for the season… some will be done,  and others I will cross off the list until next year.  Baking always tops the list,  followed by a little crafting.  This cake felt like both because making the snow globe almost felt like doing a craft… probably because nobody was going to eat it.  I made the globe by making a gelatin bubble like I had made for another cake,  put a figurine inside,  and placed it on a gingersnap cookie.  I knew that the globe would not be crystal clear because there needed to be several layers of gelatin,  otherwise it would have been far  too fragile.  I liked the effect,  it had a vintage look,  which is exactly what comes to mind when I think of snow globes.  I brought this Gingerbread Cheesecake to Dave and Yuri's dinner party… dinner was great,  we had lots of fun,   and we even did a craft,  which Jody organized and coincidentally happened to be a snow globe…  I will be making,  and trying to perfect this snow globe idea  for a Christmas/Birthday cake for Jim…