Today was a challenge!  Four Calling Birds…what kind of dessert?!

Mary “puzzled and puzzled till her puzzler was sore*.”  And she came up with this delicious Christmas-tree-shaped cake – vanilla cake with red and green food coloring sprinkled here and there for fun – covered it with white chocolate whipped cream – then green coconut for the tree…and you can see 4 small birds (made from  Snickerdoodle cookies) with telephone wire coiled from one to the other, because they are:

Four CALLING Birds!!!!

*borrowed from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”