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Find out how to make your own over at Delish. Make a light-hearted cake for chocolate lovers this Christmas with this fun DIY from Love Crafts. With a chocolate buttercream coating and chocolate antlers, it's sure to be a family favourite. If you're ready to break away from the traditional snow-inspired white cake icing, why not switch it up and opt for red fondant, then add a fondant bow? This is a pretty simple icing idea to put into practise but it looks stunning. 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.
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. The cake itself is decorated with a snow-effect base of buttercream and coconut, then the Santa shapes are modelled out of fondant. 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!
Autumn Tree Cake
When it comes to the decorating I'm something of a traditionalist – I usually opt for royal icing made with egg yolks and glycerin and then top it with a little Santa cake topper and a sprig of holly. But in a quest to mix things up I'm planning big things this year when the time comes. Prepare decorating bag with white icing; cut ¼ in. Arrange sports balls around cake, using icing to adhere as needed. Er yes we all need an elf-themed cake in our lives. This cake idea is the gift we all deserve after living through 2 years of a global pandemic.
One to give a go if you want to make a table centrepiece that your Christmas guests will love. I've been making my own Christmas cake for most of my adult life. It's a process steeped in family tradition. My mother used to make our cakes when I was a child and her recipe became a firm part of our Christmas celebrations.
Sports Birthday Side Strips ~ Edible 2D Fondant Birthday Cake Side Toppers ~ D20023
Zoe loves being immersed in Gathered’s quilting content, tweaking our tutorials and publishing new patterns. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Using squared notch icing comb, comb cake, removing excess icing as needed. Place cake in freezer to set, about 45 to 60 minutes.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 21 and reserved green icing. Pipe elongated swirls around top edge of cake. Send me exclusive offers, unique gift ideas, and personalized tips for shopping and selling on Etsy.
Baby Shark Cake
Using white icing, ice cake smooth, using heavier icing on sides of cake. She'll roll up her sleeves to try any new recipe in the kitchen—from spicy Thai dishes (her favorite!) to classic Southern comfort food (OK...also her favorite). When she's not busy thinking of her next meal, Rachel can be found practicing yoga, going for a run, exploring National Parks and traveling to new-to-her cities across the country. Toasted coconut adds visual appeal to this tall and impressive cake. With an airy texture and heavenly coconut-ginger flavor,it's a lovely end to meals throughout the year.
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! Find the tutorial over at Good to Know. 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. This snowflake cake idea only needs two colours of fondant plus some edible glitter or sprinkles of your choice to make a really eye-catching cake.
Baseball partyWhether you're looking for traditional decorations or a more modern finish this year, get ready to find inspiration. Using Black icing color, tint 2 cups white icing black. Prepare decorating bag with tip 3 and black icing. Using melted candy and prepared pattern, make 4 to 5 of each sports ball. For baseball and football, freehand the stitching after ball is fully covered. 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.
Using icing smoother, smooth out icing, wiping smoother clean after each use. Melt Orange, Bright White, Light Cocoa, Black, Vibrant Green and Red candy, separately, according to package directions. Transfer melted candy into six individual decorating bags.
Thnaks and image credit to cakesdecor.com for the idea – head over to their post for more pictures and inspiration for this cake. Image and idea is from Cake Angel on Flickr. Now I have a young family of my own, I still make her recipe each year. In fact I make two as I make enough for my wider family to eat as well – such is the popularity of my Mum's Christmas cake.
Some fancy up the outside of the cake with frosting, candy or fruit, while others use simple layering tricks to make the inside shine. 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. 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.
Sports Themed Baby Shower Cake - Baby and other decorations are fondant. Zoe is the launch Editor of Gathered.how. 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.
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