If you fancy some festive fun this year and want your family to get some of their 5 a day then why not tell them that this year they'll be having Brussels Sprouts for Christmas!
Now with that, I don't mean the kind that ends up being leftover on your dinner plate, no I mean the cute cakey kind...
This is a 2D Penguin Cake that I made for our friends on the run-up to Christmas.
It is a festive fruit cake, covered in marzipan and then topped with white rolled icing.
The black and yellow icing is Renshaws, and the edible pearls are actually Halloween Sugar Pearls which were bought from...
Brrrr, a penguin family Christmas cake. This is a rich fruit cake topped with Courvoisier. I made the penguins using black, white and orange Renshaw ready to roll icing. The Christmas tree is out of a decoration set and is the only thing on the cake that isn't edible.
The igloo was handmade...
This was one of the Christmas cakes I made over the festive period and turned it into a pudding; the base is a Christmas cake that I baked in a rounded bowl to get the pudding shape. It was then covered with white icing fondant, red Renshaw Decor Ice for the berries and Lincoln Green Renshaw...
Ok so here are some of the good and bad baking stuff I have been up to recently...
Firstly there were the Teddy bears which I threw together in five mins just to check out textures and features etc.; I'm more into the furry one myself although I do have another fur design to play about with...
These are what I have been making today!
It smells a lot like Christmas in our house. :D
All I need to do now is let them mature a little and then get cracking on the decorating part!
This fruit cake recipe will make 3 small thin 6 inch cakes, a large deep 8-9 inch cake, or two 2-litre domed cakes with leftovers for half a litre domed cake.
The 6-inch cakes take between 1-2 hours to bake, the 8-inch takes around 3 hours to bake, and the 2-litre domed ones take over 2 hours...
If you are baking a cake for a long time such as fruit cake and wish to add extra moisture then simply add a tray of water to the bottom of your oven and your cake will absorb extra steam whilst baking.
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Smiley Snowman Surprise!
This is a rich fruit cake which was topped with brandy and left to mature for several weeks. Once ready, I covered it in marzipan and white icing; I then used a snowflake plunge cutter for the edible snowflakes and bought the snowman decoration to top it. The...
Simple Snowman Cake.
This was the first cake decorating topper I taught my students how to make on a festive fayre weekend in Christmas 2010 with Linda. It was a very simple design and very easy to do yet very effective. The simple shapes form a snowman, and this was taught in December 2010...
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