For the past few years my sister and I have taken on the task of decorating the Christmas cake. My mum makes a traditional Christmas cake (you know the ones you make in October and feed brandy to for the next couple of months?!) and she puts the royal incing on the top. It's the tradition in our family that the icing is spiky around the sides and flat on top..It's the flat bit that me and my sister decorate.
So I thought I would enlist her help to do this blogpost!
We thought we would start off by showing you a the cakes we've decorated in previous years. I searched high and low for old photos. Some of them look good, others less so.
This Year
This is the blank canvas we start off with every year.
The first thing we did this year was sieve some icing sugar and edible glitter over the top to give them impression of snow fall. Basically we really wanted to use the edible glitter.
Next we made an igloo. We tried several different methods including trying to build it brick by brick (impossible) and after a lot of frustration we settled on forming the igloo using a circular glass.
Next we used a knife to make our igloo look like it was made of separate bricks and also to dig an ice hold into the icing for our penguins to fish in.
We were having so much fun that we forgot to take pictures of the different stages of penguin creating. However they were super simple. We adapted this idea from Pinterest and made it our own. We snapped a cocktail stick in half to make fishing poles and added a few piles of mini snowballs around to add a bit of character.
This cake was a lot of fun to make and we think it looks pretty good. Obviously we aren't professionals so it's never going to look perfect but I think making it ourselves makes it more special anyway.
Show us your Christmas cake decorating or tweet us ideas for next year @SimplyKarah10
SK x
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