Make the Christmas cake recipe of your choice.
Once the cake is ready, you add a bit of warmed jam and then add a rolled out
piece of marzipan on top and cover it with royal icing or thin sheet of fondant.
Christmas cake ready for serving
Cut pieces of oil paper and place each piece of cake on top and put any decoration you like or even keep plain. then fold the paper and either put a ribbon or Christmas wrapping paper.
cupcakes
make any cupcake of your choice, cover with white buttercream and then add cut out holy leaves with fondant and place on top and dust with icing sugar.
Snow man
make a Christmas cake recipe of your choice, break it up and take a pan shaped like a Snowman and press down the broken cake and turn onto a cake board. Then roll out plain white fondant, cover the snowman. Then take a black piece of fondant make a cap and his arms, you could also cut out circles for his eyes, mouth and buttons. Place an orange colour fondant in the shape of a carrot on his nose and either buy a ready made candy cane for his stick or twist two colours of fondant together(red and white) or like the scarf I made with green and white fondant twisted together.
Christmas Tree Shape
The cake inside can be anything of your choice. Christmas, chocolate, ribbon, butter, marbled etc.
Take a tin that is in the shape of a Christmas tree or take a rectangular cake and cut out the shape of a Christmas tree. Roll out green fondant cover the cake, and decorate with premade fondant figures and items. Put a string of battery operated light bulbs around the tree and it can be lit.
Christmas cake with brandy Butter swirls
Make a Christmas cake and cover it with Brandy Butter and decorate as desired.
Another Christmas Tree shaped cake
I took a silicon mould in the shape of a Christmas Tree and poured in butter cake batter. I then made a butter cream icing added green food colouring and covered the cake, I then piped an edge around the base. I used fondant for the small figures, star on top and holly leaves. Placed silver balls as decorations.
Christmas Snowman cake
Inside this cake is a carrot cake, covered with white fondant, fondant hat, marzipan nose, red and white entwined fondant walking stick and balance items with black fondant. Green white entwined fondant scarf.
Dome shaped Christmas cake
made a cake in the shape of a dome. cover it with white fondant. Make figures with fondant, Santa, Snowman, Christmas tree, bulbs and holly leaves. I made a home made sugar lace ribbon and did the decorating of the cake.
Another ready to eat cut pieces of Christmas cake
made a Christmas cake, covered with Marzipan and Royal Icing, cut with a rectangle cake cutter and made holy leaf with fondant and pasted on top with a bit of water. Then wrapped in oil paper and put a Chirstmasy ribbon round it.
unwrapped served in cup cake cases.
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