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Whatever you feel about eggnog, this cheesecake will make you fall in love. She has over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt. She's a quilter and sewist who works with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines including Today’s Quilter, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. Zoe loves being immersed in Gathered’s quilting content, tweaking our tutorials and publishing new patterns.
This is beyond adorable, and a triumph if you are both patient and talented with sugar paste. You’ll need an array of food colourings or ready coloured varieties, edible glue and a paintbrush . You could cheat, by just popping a selection of mini toys at the top of the stocking, or even baubles like toy soldiers, as decor. The adorable polar bear Christmas cake is a serious show-stopper. Those shards of ice sure look tricky to master, but they’re actually made from melted Fox’s Glacier Mints. Ready to improve your cake decorating skills even further?
Christmas cake ideas: Simple Christmas cake decorations and designs
On this list of 23 wonderful winter cakes, you’ll find rich chocolate, spicy gingerbread, citrusy orange, and even an eggnog-flavored cake. For most of us, the holidays are all the more cheerful with a drink or two. It’s made with chocolate cake layers soaked with red wine simple syrup, red wine frosting, and a red wine ganache.
Top with icing and a glace cherry, a pecan, or some dried fruit, like apricots. This simple snowflake design is great for Christmas cake beginners. Worthy of a Bake Off showstopper, this swan is a proper talking point. Likewise, it’s an art to get the hang of piping icing but once you do, you’ll be amazed how incredible your cakes will look and taste. Ready to roll fondant can be found in most supermarkets in the cake decorating aisle and is a super-easy way to decorate your cake as its pre-made. Once you’ve mastered the art of crafting buttercream icing, you can then practice piping to create designs.
Snowflakes Christmas cake
Fondant snow balls, a snowman, a cute bucket and spade, and some fabulous folk dressed in their wintery finery off to play in the powder. A slight riff on the traditional recipe, this one goes heavier on the sweet-yet-tart cranberry flavour. It needs to be fed with sherry or brandy – a good way to really help that soak in is to prick the cake all over with a skewer after baking. It will stay fresh for around six months, so will see you nicely into the New Year. We recommend serving with cheese – a slice of good quality mature cheddar is just the ticket. Choose from a variety of different colors and get creative with your designs.
Topped with candy shards and embellishments, this Piqued Interest Cake is sure to grab everyone’s attention! Add a fun border of colorful sprinkles around the bottom for a cake that will certainly take center stage. But it’s the crushed candy canes that your guests will be fighting over. As with most European-style cakes, this recipe focuses on fruit and nuts and has no frosting. Not only is the cake spot on thanks to the inclusion of dates, dark brown sugar, and black treacle , but the frosting is made using the sticky toffee sauce for maximum pudding flavors.
Yummy Chocolate Cake
Owner of A Slice of Heaven Custom Cakes Hello – I was the owner of A Slice of Heaven Custom Cakes and I was often asked “How did you make that cake? I will post pictures and step by step instructions on how I create many of the cakes and decorations that were on my website. Whether you are a home baker or a professional baker, my instructions and techniques will help you. Depending on what type of cake you create, you can match the nuts to pair well with the flavor.
The combination of lemon curd and cream cheese frosting is intensely citrusy and refreshing, and the quick candied lemon peel makes it priceless. The quick lemon peel garnish adds an extra special touch to this cake, and is super simple. In honor of National Cake Decorating Day, we’ve put together a deliciously creative list of some of our favorite cake roll decorating ideas. This list covers everything from the simple and mouthwatering Hot Chocolate Cake Roll to the more elegant and trendy Lemon Drip Cake Roll.
Decorated with puffs of white buttercream, this no-bake cake is perfect for winter celebrations or cozy gatherings with friends. These super simple and speedy to make Christmas cake decorations involve cutting three trees from sugar paste and then decorating them with cake sprinkles. Children in the family will especially love helping you with this bit! Let's start with one close to my own heart – Domestic Gothess has got a delicious recipe for a Gingerbread Christmas Fruitcake and a super simple but stylish way to decorate it. Perfect for a fruitcake, this recipe comes with a step-by-step video guide to help master this nifty fondant work featuring designs of the classic Christmas plant. It’s a very timeless design that you’ll be pleased as punch to have mastered, and is perfect for a festive tea party any time over the holidays.
Give the gift of Christmas dessert with this Striped Christmas Gift Cake. Decorated using red, white and green fondant, this cake is a fun project for beginners and intermediate decorators alike. You could even make this cake for a birthday or other celebration by changing the fondant colors to suit your occasion. Roll out your fondant into thin strings and then shape them into knitted mittens to top off your Christmas cake! This is probably one of the more technical Christmas cake ideas int his round-up but with a bit of practise you can create the effect of knitting with your icing! Thnaks and image credit to cakesdecor.com for the idea – head over to their post for more pictures and inspiration for this cake.
This christmas cake design is inspired by all those festive Christmas sweaters we see this time of year. If layer cakes aren’t your thing, I recommend making a festive bundt cake! This orange and cranberry bundt cake is bursting with citrus flavor, which is balanced beautifully by the tartness of the cranberries. I recommend making it in advance and letting it sit for a few days in fridge.
Learn how to bake a mirror glaze cake from scratch here. Create pretty stripes across your cake by piping, but make sure to get them perfect for the best effect! To do this, measure first by pressing a ruler into your icing. Then, use the line to guide you for Pinterest-perfect stripes. Make someone’s day by writing them a personalized message on the cake.
Before you can start creating fine and intricate designs, start with something large. For example, over-sized rosettes are an easy option for piping beginners. Make a cute Easter cake with an Oreo cookie nest and egg candies. Use leftover Halloween candies or any candies you like to make “chocolate blobs” and stick them on top of your cake. Buy or make apple MARSHMALLOW POPS and stick them into your cake for this easy Autumn or Fall cake.
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