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My mom and I made cakes together every Christmas whenever we could.
I still bake cakes during the holidays.

This has been particularly busy.
Thanksgiving: chocolate pound cake
Auction: chocolate pound cake and rum cake
Purchased at the 2024 Christmas auction: Italian Cream cake x 2 and another as yet unselected
For the Ballot Draw/Christmas party at Democratic Headquarters: Rum cake and possible a second non boozy cake
Family Christmas Dinner: Chocolate pound cake.

Back when we did not have much extra money, I came up with the idea to offer cakes to order at my Sunday School Class Christmas Party. It is a live auction and the bidding stops when there are 6 bidders remaining; they can request a cake when they need it and they get to choose the kind of cake they want. This is still a part of our live auction after 30 years.
The money we raise is given to a number of very worthy entities. I think we raised about $11,,000 this year