Christmas cakes

Well, its December! Always puts me in a mood for a "christmasy" cake! Last year I made this one:

The year before that I made these to put on a ganache-drizzled cake:

And this year, I made these:

This year's are my favorites so far! Now I just need to put them on a cake. I'll do that and post pictures by the end of this week! Wish me luck!

So this is what I came up with for these poinsettias. I think the cake came out pretty good. I almost didn't want to have to cut it!