Decorated Christmas Cake Tutorial

This showstopper cake will be the centrepiece of your Christmas celebrations and not alone is it impressive but it is easy to decorate too.

Christmas Cake Time!

These are my two favourite Christmas cake recipes both from the wonderful Delia Smith. Her Classic Christmas Cake recipe has a special place in my heart because it was the recipe I turned to when I baked my very first Christmas cake, a momentous occasion for any novice baker and it had to be just right! But I need not have worried because Delia is a safe pair of hands :)

My second favourite Christmas cake recipe is....yeah you guessed it, Delia again :) I now make both cakes each year and this Creole Christmas Cake is just as rich but it requires no food mixer, it just needs a big mixing bowl and and wooden spoon!  

Whichever you choose you won't be sorry, enjoy!

Delia's Creole Christmas Cake

This is the easiest Christmas cake to make! My stand mixer lay idle while I stirred and folded, that is a first for me, especially when it comes to the making our Christmas fruit cake! Yes it's true, it didn't plug in any gadgets when I mixed this cake, that alone makes this cake a winner! 

I have been in love with this recipe for a long time, it just screams Christmas with all the spices, alcohol, the chopped nuts and the smell...so Christmassy!

I was slightly dubious about the long list of spirits and lets be honest I was totally put off by the addition of Angostura bitter! It sounded like one of  those dusty bottles that your grandparents would have at the back of their drinks cabinet, stood beside tiny lime green bottles of Snowball or Advocaat!! Remember those? 

Well I thought this year was the year that I would make it no matter what obstacles I faced :) I did some research and discovered that this could be made without any effort. So here is how I got on, remember no electric mixers were used in the making of this sumptuous Christmas cake!! Enjoy.

Some Simple Christmas Cake Decorating Ideas

Don't be stuck for cake decorating inspiration this year, try some of my simple but classy cake ideas. Your cake can be a simple or as detailed as you wish but don't spend ages in the kitchen slaving over your masterpiece. 

Mini Christmas Cakes

 

I am much better at baking than I am at shopping, this might look like a lot of work for a Christmas present, but believe me this is a gallant effort by comparison to my lack of imagination in the gift buying department. I have given some of the worst gifts to my family and friends, I never learn, this year's haul even includes the dreaded packet of socks!!

Mich Turner's Snowflake Christmas Cake

If you are looking for something different for your Christmas cake this year, this might just be the post for you. Last year my family (after much heavy hinting!!) bought me a copy of  Mich Turner's Cake Masterclass book for Christmas. It has pride of place on my book shelf and in my heart ever since, I have learnt so much from it, become confident in my cake decorating abilities because of it and now using it as an excuse to whip up a fabulous cake for any occasion!! I've waited a whole year for an excuse to make this cake and now here it is......