CHRISTMAS CAKE decorations.CHEAP please

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The cake is made and matured. I don`t want the usual decorations from tesco`s. Can I pick your brains please. As usual it is going to be a snow effect in royal icing

brokenwings

kittie
have you thought of using some marzipan or some icing to make penguins?
i did it last year
iced the cake in very pale blue icing as ocean
pooled white glace icing over the flat top and let it spread to reprisent an ice cap
then i made some penguins from royal icing
it was a big success
the penguins were easy to make too -

have a look here for inspiration:
http://www.marzipanworld.com/acatalog/Marzipan_World_Royal_Icing_Penguins_87.html

Chris25

saw in a magazine at the weekend a lovely wreath effect - cranberries, bay leaves and rosemary, all sugar dusted and placed in a circular shape on top of the cake. Simple but very effective.

I'm hopeless at icing and I might try this one as I've made a round cake this year.

Often do a square cake, take off a large corner, plonk it on top so it looks a bit like a ski slope (well that's what I tell everyone it is ), rough ice it (the only sort I can do ) and then put on the 'slope' some sking/tumbling penguins that I got in Lakeland.

The trouble is - as the children get older, they are more critical of my design capabilities. Jane Asher, I'm certainly not - more Tracy Emin

monkmorency

Chris25 wrote:

saw in a magazine at the weekend a lovely wreath effect - cranberries, bay leaves and rosemary, all sugar dusted and placed in a circular shape on top of the cake. Simple but very effective.

That sounds beautiful! I was thinking of using some holly leaves from the garden for mine, so I think I might incorporate them into something like this now. Not sure where I'll get hold of cranberries though...

Chris25 wrote:

Jane Asher, I'm certainly not - more Tracy Emin

LOL :rotfl:

maryb

very easy but very effective - decorate with unrefined golden icing sugar made into royal icing and just swirled into snow peaks. Tie a gold organza ribbon around the cake then sprinkle gold coated almonds or gold coated chocolate dragees on top _ i got some in Sainsburys one year but I think there are some in other supermarkets

Lillibet_2

Get an Xmas tree decoration like a hollow bell or xmas tree. *Must be hollow*.

Grease inside of decoration with a little oil. Mix white granulated sugar with a little egg white, just enough to bind, go easy on the egg white or finished item will be too brittle, then pack firmly into greased decoration. You can add a drop of food colouring if you want to but you can really only get a pale colour as too much liquid & it won't set. Leave somewhere cool but not cold to set, usually takes about 24 hours to go off fully. Tap outside of decoration gentley & slide sugar shape out. Bells look good laid on cake in pairs with a bit of gold ribbon wound in & out. You could pipe coloured decorations onto the tree shapes. You can buy proper moulds to make these with but I find Wilkinsons do a good line in tree decorations which are suitable:money: These are dead easy to do, I used to do them in home ec. classes from age 10 so they aren't as fiddily as they sound but look really effective:j

HTH:rudolf:

cheekymole

cut out different sized stars and dust in gold, plie them up into a Christmas tree effect and then wrap some gold netting material around the ouside of the cake, looks stunning

or

cut out some crown sides (with stars in centre)from icing wait a few days until they are rock hard or add gum trag. beforehand ice together in centre of cake and then light a tealight in centre of crown - looks almost professional

Queenie

Serve as it is with some mature cheddar! (cheaper than marzipan and royal icing and absolutely ... D- LISH!!!!! )

It's the Yorkshire way, and I have to say ... the *best* way to enjoy a rich, mature, Christmas Cake (less hassle, cheaper, far more more-ish than anything else too!)

Chris25

monkmorency wrote:

That sounds beautiful! I was thinking of using some holly leaves from the garden for mine, so I think I might incorporate them into something like this now. Not sure where I'll get hold of cranberries though...

LOL :rotfl:

Waitrose have tubs of them but not sure what they cost
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