This Dessert:

Shemittah Calendar

Every seventh year is a “Shabbos year” of rest for the land of Israel. Farmers may not work the fields during this year.  

What You Need:

Ingredients

• 14 chocolate cupcakes

• 1 cup chocolate frosting

• ¼ cup green frosting

• 1 rope pull-apart licorice

• 3 licorice bricks

Things

• 1 piping bag fitted with star tip

• 1 piping bag fitted with small circle writing tip

• Sharp knife

• Long rectangular platter

How to Make It:

1. Fill the bag fitted with the star tip with chocolate frosting.

2. Top each cupcake with a swirl of chocolate frosting. Set aside one cupcake.

3. Cut 14 thin pieces of licorice brick.

4. Place two slices of licorice brick on seven cupcakes, one piece right above the other to form a ‘calendar’.

5. Pull apart the licorice into individual thin strips and cut it into 7 small pieces the length of a licorice brick ‘calendar’. 

6. Place one strip of licorice right above each licorice brick ‘calendar’. 

7. Fill the bag fitted with the circle tip with green frosting.

8. Pipe the numbers one through seven on these seven cupcakes.

9. Cover the six other cupcakes with vines — lots of swirly lines.

10. Place the cupcakes in number order on the platter. Place a vine cupcake behind cupcakes numbers one through six and the plain cupcake you set aside behind cupcake number seven.