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This will activate the sugars in the icing and help them to stay stuck. Or use a spot of frosting or buttercream to 'cement' them in place – be careful not to use too much or it might escape and be visible underneath. Remember Frances Quinn from the early dawn of Bake Off? Using coconut oil in place of butter and eggs, this cake means plant based eaters have no need to miss out on Christmas cake.
Just buy a variety of packs of coloured fondant from the baking aisle. You can also cut out designs, from stars to love hearts, in the icing, or fashion it into all kinds of shapes (even the person or people the cake is for!) for the top of your cake. You can also mould decorations, like characters and animals, out of coloured marzipan, for the top of your cake. Crammed with rum-soaked fruit, this rich sweet Christmas cake is suitable for vegetarians and dairy- and gluten-free. 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.
Mary Berry’s Christmas Cake
The cake itself is decorated with a snow-effect base of buttercream and coconut, then the Santa shapes are modelled out of fondant. It wouldn't be a Christmas cake round up without featuring an idea from the complete icons of domestic goddessery, Good Housekeeping. True to form they've got a beautiful cake decoration idea with fondant that won't take you hours and hours to master.
Cream is super easy to work with and can be spread or piped onto your cake depending on its thickness. “Sprinkles make any bake look a bit more special. You can keep it simple with a small amount on the top or go all out and cover the whole thing in sprinkles.
Sprinkle Number Cake
Gum balls are an appropriate candy choice for this creative cake. Whisk friends and family away with a colorful sprinkle-coated pinwheel cake. To achieve clean, defined lines, use strips of waxed paper to provide borders. The rainbow inside the cake comes courtesy of food coloring.
A twist on the traditional Christmas dessert, this Yule Log Cake Roll is the perfect treat to help celebrate this wonderful time of year with family and friends. If not I have a scratch recipe for a cream cheese pound cake that is so easy and really needs nothing but a cup of coffee or a glass of milk however the cake is yellow in color not white. Let me know if you are interested and I can post the recipe here.
Fun and Festive Christmas Cake Decorating Ideas
A great cake for birthdays and other special occasions. Add a little elegance to your celebration with our Floral Cake Roll. This cake roll is a simple yet stylish dessert decorated with buttercream for an extra layer of decadence. The edible flowers and sprinkles give it a pop color for the perfect finishing touch. It’s an irresistible cake fit for any occasion.
Indulge your sweet tooth – and make decorating super easy – by covering the entire outside of your cake with candy! This darling cake started from a box mix, but it looks fancy and delicious when placed on a pretty cake stand. Classic buttercream is great and all, but have you ever had Italian meringue?
Royal icing
There’s really nothing better than a gorgeous cake for celebrating everything from birthdays to graduations, big holidays to minor weekday wins. If you’re not a master baker, the idea of frosting and decorating a cake can be overwhelming. Luckily, we’ve got lots of ideas for you—everything from super simple options (really, they’re so easy kids can help out!) to more involved endeavors.
Check out our favoriteedible cake decoration ideas to add to your bake. A naked cake is completely bare on the outside. It works best on a layer cake so show off the thick stripes of buttercream or chocolate ganache filling. Without the typical outer coat, the interior of the cake is completely exposed to showcase all the yummy frosting inside—like what you’ll find with this Malted Chocolate Stout Layer Cake. It’s perfect for rustic or minimalist birthdays. This buttercream rainbow cake by Courtney Rich ofCakes By Courtney is the perfect way to add some extra sunshine to a birthday celebration.
From rose petals to sprigs of lavender, give your cake a spring feel by using flowers to decorate. 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. Valya's Taste of Home has this amazingly realistic tree stump cake tutorial – the bark around the edges is actually chocolate frosting made using Valya's recipe.
This is definitely one of those cakes where more is more, so use up ALL the extra Easter candy and cover this sucker from head to toe. So, pretty sure I could rock this super simple, over-the-top happy cake that sports a whole bunch of, you guessed it, different styles of candles. Instead of covering every last inch, use a stencil and make a sprinkle shape on a cake. Not into mixing frosting, coloring it, putting it in bags, decorating and then cleaning it all up? Use candy bits of different sizes to dress up a plain cake. From dinosaurs to cats to penguins, depending on the occasion – you’ll just need a little time and patience on your hands.
You can do this by piping chocolate and then flooding the areas in between with coloured icing. Find more pictures for this cake idea over at cakecentral.com. For a humerous take on your Christmas cake that kids will love – acupformycake.com has this fun idea for how to make a snowman in the snow cake.
For all those Christmas cake and Christmas pud non-believers out there, this is a brilliant alternative, fashioned on the look of a traditional pudding. It’s booze free, so you can give the brandy a rest, and the kids will be thrilled, plus it’s easy and quick, so ideal if you haven’t planned far enough ahead for the more trad bakes. Covered in Maltesers, drizzled with melted white choc and sprinkled with red edible glitter, it’s a great one to serve after Christmas dinner with or without a drizzle of cream. There are a lot of Christmas cake ideas out there, and many involve snowflakes, trees, Christmas characters etc.. But there are surprisingly few traditional cakes which have a religious theme at their core. We love this idea from Cake Central both for it's nativity theme, and for the really unusual idea of creating a stained glass effect.
Knitted mittens Christmas cake
If you're looking for a simple yet effective technique, icing sugar is a brilliant decorating choice. Ready to roll fondant can be bought in most supermarkets in the cake decorating aisle and is really easy to work with. Fondant can also be stamped into or crimped for a different style of decoration,” says Kate Tynan.
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