Christmas cakes

Penguin polar party

Rich fruit cake with royal icing and sugar paste penguins and polar bear.

The icy pond is made from melted mints with a drop of blue food colour.

Winter scene

Two versions of a similar Christmas cake design.

Both rich fruit cake with marzipan.

The first cake, made several years ago, was covered with sugarpaste and decorated with sugarpaste trees, snowballs and icing sugar.

This year I made the second cake for a customer with Royal Icing and 3D Christmas trees for the top.

Christmas Trees

Small Christmas Cake made as a raffle prize for Aspin Park Primary School Christmas Fair.

Rich fruit cake with marzipan and sugarpaste, sugar balls and edible glitter.

Nativity Scene

Small cake with the Nativity figures I made for my stall at the Gracious Street Christmas Fair arranged on top.

Gluten free fruit cake with marzipan and sugarpaste.

Our Gluten Free Christmas cake tastes really delicious - sadly only about 3 slices left! We think the Nativity figures are very special and reminded us and our visitors of the real meaning of Christmas. The only trouble is that our grandchildren want to eat Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus!

Classic Christmas cake

A traditional Christmas cake – rich fruit cake with marzipan and royal icing.

Royal icing piped snowflake design and red wired ribbon with snowflake detail.

Snowflakes

I made several versions of this Christmas cake this year – after offering this one as a raffle prize I was asked to make more.

This is a 6″ square rich fruit cake with marzipan and pale blue sugarpaste.  The snowflakes are white sugarpaste and I also used edible lustre dust (snowflake).

Christmas Fair Cupcakes

A selection of the cupcakes that I made for my stall at Aspin Park Primary School Fair in December 2011.

Chocolate with chocolate buttercream

Vanilla with vanilla buttercream and sugarpaste

Coffee with coffee buttercream

Lemon with lemon buttercream

Red velvet with cream cheese icing or lemon buttercream