Decorating Christmas Cakes

leni

I have 11 Christmas Cakes to decorate and just can not be bothered. Their all marzipanned and iced and just need decorations now, but as a novice cake decorator I can't get away with simple shop bought stuff.

I really can not motivate myself and have to clean the house also. Please give me inspiration! (and motivation)

margaretclare

They'll be just as nice *not* decorated.

If you really want to revive an old tradition, try serving a slice of cake with a slice of cheese.

Margaret

ka7e

A simple cut-out design (a bell or a star), coloured with food colouring or sprinkled with edible glitter. Have a quick look round the shops for cheap childrens pastry cutters if you haven't any suitable ones.
If you have a steady hand, hand pipe "Merry Xmas" in coloured icing.
Check out the supermakets for half-price tree decorations. I've just made Nigella's Choc Xmas cake and it's decorated with Sainsburys gold wire garland still in it's curly shape and a spiral tree decoration on top. Whole lot dusted with edible gold glitter. It doesn't look like your usual Xmas cake - but it does look pretty damn good even if I say so myself!!

Debt_Free_Chick

My regular "Can't be bovvered" (am I bovvered?) decorations are here (glace fruit) and here (glace nut).

Go on - you know you want to

kethry

leni wrote:

I have 11 Christmas Cakes to decorate and just can not be bothered. Their all marzipanned and iced and just need decorations now, but as a novice cake decorator I can't get away with simple shop bought stuff.

I really can not motivate myself and have to clean the house also. Please give me inspiration! (and motivation)

You could try something incredibly simple like this, which is what i'm going to do with the (part of the) cake that i've marzipanned and will ice.. if only because i have to travel with it to the netherlands (long story) and anything else would just get destroyed, i think.

failing that, there's *lots* of ideas here, i think something there would provide inspiration, but do remember that often, the simplest is the best. even just a couple of (real), cleaned holly leaves, sprayed with silver (to mimic frost), and sat on a circle of white rolled out icing (which can be lifted from the cake when it comes to cut it) with some berries in the middle, and a ribbon around the cake can look absolutely stunning when you use good clean lines and good rolled icing..

HTH

keth
xx