Thursday 22 December 2011

Tiny fruit cakes






You may have seen my earlier Tiny Christmas Cakes post, well they're all decorated and ready for eating on Sunday.



There's such a variety of ways to decorate a Christmas Cake and doing them this way I got to do them all!



You could leave plain and just have a decorative glace fruit topping and a little cellophane:




Or traditional Royal Icing:

Some fondant icing for those who prefer their teeth intact:



Beyond the simple by taking a plain iced white cake, indenting some lines to resemble brickwork and and arch you get an igloo. So simple by with a great effect. Finish off with some sugarpaste penguins to complete:




As not everyone likes fruit cake, a small amount of chocolate madeira batter and some chocolate flavoured teddy-bear coloured icing makes these little puddings:



The smaller cakes are harder to cover in fondant, and finger prints more noticeable but a good way to practice skills. I'm definately doing this next year, not loads of cake left over and plently of scope for my imagination!


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