It may surprise you to learn that Yom Kippur is not a super-popular time for cake orders. So let’s just skip on ahead to the next holiday (raise your hand if you’re already starting to feel partied out).
I always feel that Sukkot is the perfect time to let your inner three-year-old go wild. While most people try to decorate their homes in a tasteful, stylish manner – some strategically placed works of art, a few knickknacks bought on an overseas trip – when it comes to a Sukkah, all good taste flies out the window. The rule of thumb appears to be that if your Sukkah’s walls aren’t completely decorated floor to ceiling, you’re clearly doing something wrong.
Just as every shul the world over uses the same tunes for certain prayers, I don’t think I’ve ever stepped into a sukkah on any continent that doesn’t sport a multi-coloured construction paper chain and gaudy ornaments hanging from the rafters.
So bearing that in mind, I undertook to make my cake sukkah as true to life as possible. Firstly, the chasidim are dancing under colourful balls of something – paper lanterns, perhaps. Next, a paper chain and a set of Ushpizin grace one wall. The grapes on the third wall somehow just seemed appropriate.
You’re probably asking yourself what my own sukkah walls look like. Well, I’m ashamed to say that most years they remain embarrassingly bare. I consider it an achievement just getting the thing up in the first place. My sukkah is remarkably easy to construct. But somehow the task always looms so large and it’s generally not until the very last minute that the finishing touches are added. Sadly, I never find the time to sit down with construction paper, scissors and a stapler. Never mind, I’ve never liked being like everyone else.
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