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We’re four nights in, but Happy Hanukkah! Been eating some latkes? Some doughnuts? How about a little dreidel action? No? Well, you’re missing out.

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Betsy and I had a little Hanukkah shindig the other day. We got a bunch of friends together, had some food, had some drink, had some good company and a good time.

Of course, I made a cake.

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It was pretty simple because I didn’t have much time. Vanilla cake with lemon icing and a blue and white swirl of fondant. A little fondant dreidel and some Hebrew letters topped it off.

Some good friends came down from New York for a visit too.

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It was a mini Cornell Gymnastics Club reunion! But what really topped off the night, was this gem of a video they produced.

‘Nuff said.

So when I say I like to engineer cakes, it’s usually on a table top scale. A record player, a clock, hopefully some day a sweet remote control car. Well, these people take it to a whole new level. This is a commercial for theĀ  Skoda Fabia, which apparently is some sort of mini European car (as many European cars are).

There is also a behind the scenes video of the making of the commercial and the cake. Just a note, I would also like to be referred to as a “home economist” in the future when baking cake and am wondering where I happened to put my cake-making jumpsuit.