3 Days Of Christmas - Christmas Cake Decoration

3 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS (and my birthday as well incase you're interested)

Now you've took that in, we can get on to decorating that delcious Christmas cake!

Google Christmas cake decorations and you will get THOUSANDS of ideas, but here's how I did mine. 

Ingredients:

200g ready roll icing

Marzipan

Blue gel colouring

Edible silver balls

Apricot jam, melted for 10 seconds

Ribbon

Cornflower (or icing sugar)

Method:

Spread the jam over the cake thinly.

Roll out the marzipan on a sufarce dusted with flour/sugar.

Roll up on the rolling pin, then lift and smooth overt the cake.

Spread more of the jam over the marzipan.

Knead then icing quickly, then use a tooth pick and transfer some of the colouring onto the icing.

Knead again until the colour is even. Add more of the die gradually until you reach your Desiree to colour.

Roll, then smooth over the marzipan. Cut around the edge of the cake.

Using different sized snowflake cutters, make imprints over the cake.

On some, push down the balls around the edge, some all over, and some leave plain. If you have it, use edible glue and a tiny cake brush to spread in where ever your putting the balls (don't laugh).

Finish by putting some ribbon around the bottom, and securing with either some sellotape or a cake pin.

Enjoy! This cake will keep for up to 3 weeks, so no real rush though!

Love Vic x