Please help me with your awesome brainstorming skills. Here is your mission if you so choose to accept it. It's a difficult one!

1. Make a holiday cake to feed 100 people.
2. It needs to be 2 tiers.
3. Buttercream with minimal fondant.
4. Needs to look "Martha Stewarty"
and here's the kicker
5. She only wants to spend $50

Please help. This is for my little girl's teacher and I don't usually make cakes this cheap, but she's a really good teacher (my daughter is 2 and can read at a 2nd grade level, can do 1st grade math, and is excited to go to school everyday) and she's in charge of the food for her boyfriends work Christmas party. He's a doctor at a naval clinic and there will be both adults and children there.

Anyone? Please?

Anyone? Please?

I think you could transfer any of those into buttercream with fondant decorations.

If you stay away from too much red and green, and go towards the white/light blue wintery kind, you might get the Martha Stewarty clean look.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jens_cakery/4241066586/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakejournal/472228069/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakejournal/472228071/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthieh/3090150784/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allaboutcake/4172273752/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14541447@N06/3097541260/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/torkis/3068437017/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeebakey/5174732954/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600473@N07/5179795160/

Wow!! Thanks so much for all those pictures!!! I had a hard time finding very many holiday cake pictures online. Did you just go on flickr and search for christmas cakes?