Better late than never Christmas bread, cake fail and crochet scarflette

Its a little late but here are some of the goodies I made around Christmas time. 

We purchased mini loaf tins from Kroger and gave these to the G side of the family. Who doesn't love homemade bread? The recipe I found is linked below. It was  so easy and soooooo good. I will definitely make this again! 

http://www.chow.com/recipes/18658-gingerbread-loaf

It was also requested that I bring a repeat item. Apparently, the 3-layer lemon cake with black raspberry frosting from Easter was a hit. I said yes, grateful that I didnt have to find something else to bring. I didn't however, think to check the expiration date on the extra jar of topping I had bought this summer resulting in the following: 

Made a batch of frosting with sealed jar of topping. Proceeded to worry myself(physically) sick that I was going to poison everyone else. This resulted in me throwing out the entire bowl of frosting and having to re-think my dessert. By the  way, it's Christmas Eve at 1 am at this point. So I start googling ideas and cross referencing whether my local Walgreens will have the ingredients. Mac to the rescue Christmas morning, when he reminds me I can make powdered sugar so I go with (frozen)strawberry frosting. This did involve cooking down frozen strawberries with sugar on the stove but it didn't require a trip to the store. 

It turned out just as good, if not better than the other cake. It only required a failed batch of frosting and a broken cake stand(thankfully I have more than one) 

Also wanted to show off the little 'scarflette' I made for big sister SG. It was a quick work up(pattern below) and she really liked that she could put it on and 'tie it' herself. 

http://www.craftideas.us/crochet-lotus-scarf-tutorial.html

She put that on all by herself!!