Decorating
Ice White Snowflakes Cake
This is a stunningly simple cake and can be adapted to suit your own selection of cutters and kitchen implements! The snowflakes are made from modelling paste instead of a regular sugarpaste as it dries harder much more quickly and can be rolled extremely thinly.
Festive Lights Cake
You will need:
1 x 8” Christmas cake, marzipanned and covered in white sugarpaste
A black edible ink pen (available from Lakeland, Amazon here or your local Hobbycraft)
Sugarpaste in festive colours (red, blue, yellow and green)
A little royal icing
A piping tip or a small round cutter.
Day 5 – Chocolate Reindeer
I have had so much fun making a herd of reindeer for Day 5 – I very much hope you’ll love these cheeky chappies as much as I do!
The body is a round ball Christmas tree chocolate!
You will need:
Ball/bauble christmas tree chocolates
Chocolate sugarpaste (Sainsburys)
White, red, orange and green sugarpastes
A little melted chocolate
Day 2 – Christmas Pudding Chocolate Covered Oreos
Mmmmm! Christmas pudding shaped Chocolate Covered Oreos!
Now you can get specific chocolate oreo moulds that are a good deal smaller than the way I’m doing these. I don’t have one, my kitchen is bursting with equipment and I may be the recipient of an angry husband should any more essential bits and pieces make their way into our house!
Day 1 – Christmas Cakes!
Well today sees the start of The Pink Whisk 12 Days of Christmas Baking Recipes – you’ll be treated to 1 Christmassy recipe/kitchen antic a day from now until the 12th December (that’s when I collapse in an authorised heap!)
Kicking off 2013’s run are ideas for your Christmas cake, with a new design added to the collection this Christmas.
Purple & Snowflakes Christmas Cake
This cake will work in all sorts of colour combinations – this year I’m drawn to all things purple but go with your own colour scheme if you’d prefer.
You will need:-
Modelling paste – purple and white
Snowflake sugarpaste cutters – large, medium and small
Cake Decorating – Top Tips #5
Get yourself a good Sugarpaste Rolling Pin!
This one may seems a bit daft, but how many of you are covering cakes with a regular old rolling pin? Chances are its a wooden one and you’re finding it a bit on the short side?
Cake Decorating – Top Tips #4
Make your own Modelling Paste
This will save you a fortune. Using a modelling paste for most cake decorations, flowers and bits and pieces is much much easier than using sugarpaste (fondant). It dries out quicker so will hold the shape you want it to with ease.
