*Simple* Christmas cake decorating ideas please.

Becles

I ran out of time one Christmas.

I put marzipan on the top of the cake, the a rough layer of royal icing. Doesn't have to be perfectly smooth. When that was dry, I lumped more royal icing on, spread it out roughly with the pallet knife then splatted the pallet knife into it to make peaks.

I wrapped the sides of the cake in tin foil, and added some bought decorations of Christmas trees and penguins on ice skates.

A winter wonderland cake that everyone thought was fab, so I didn't tell them it was a last minute rushed effort

finc

rockhopper wrote:

One I spotted in a magazine, sorry can't remember which one:
Ice cake with marzipan then icing (though would be just as good with yellow marzipan then white, and I think would look nice if you just did the top), then gently cut out a few stars of different sizes on the top - but cutting only through the first layer, to allow the colour of the second layer to show through. Then fill some of them with those tiny sugar balls you can get...
Good luck
Rocky

That was the Asda magazine! I've used that idea for mine but bought some edible sparkly flakes instead of using silver balls.

dizzzybubble

Hi

You could look at my website for novelty cake ideas. I will admit some are very homespun and probably wouldn't win you any competitions! I am also looking for cake pictures to post on the 'your cakes' page. I don't make cakes except for family occasions and this has been a nice way to group them together.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dizzybubble/novelty_cake_ideas/christmas_cakes.html

Dizzzybubble

Gingernutmeg

I once made a really nice looking cake by covering it with marzipan and fondant, icing some little 'pearls' round the bottom and then decorating the top rim with some vaguely 'icicle' looking shapes. Then I got a baking tray and some greaseproof paper and put some foxes glacier mints on it, and stuck in it a hot oven for a couple of minutes until the sweets melted. You end up (if you use enough sweets lol) with something that looks a bit like a sheet of glass just don't melt it too much!

Once this had cooled I broke it into large shards to look like ice, and, after putting some edible snow on the cake, carefully arranged the shards so that they were all sticking up and jagged - for a bit more stability I did use a little bit of royal icing, carefully hidden with more snow lol. To finish off I tied a silver ribbon round the cake and gently dusted it with some silver sparkle. It looked lovely

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