Christmas cakes! Come and show me yours.

[sprigatito]

I haven’t seen a Christmas cake thread yet this year - can I see pics of all your lovely cakes? Here’s mine!

How on earth do you cut such a work of art?.
Absolutely amazing OP.

wow they are brilliant !

We should definitely revisit this thread once the cakes are cut, with pics and reviews of the insides. I’m so looking forward to a slice, it had better be good!

No photo of mine, but it's another royal icing, old fashioned cake, with my old childhood plastic reindeer, tree and a couple of random animals which I have never been able to identify. It's gluten free, contains half a bottle of brandy, and appears to weigh a tonne.

This is a Martha Stewart recipe we made a few years back. We used marzipan on the outside rather than buttercream because I love it and we painted it with thinned out cocoa powder. Look at the hilarious toadstools DH made

@sprigatito that is so good, you should be so proud of yourself you have skills ❤️

@flapjackfairy the post box and robin ❤️ so cute, it looks fantastic

Lovely cake OP, very traditional, reminds me of a 90’s cartoon ☺️

I can't stand fondant icing (and feel terrible about throwing it away) so I go old school 😁 We do have a very traditional old fashioned Santa decoration but we also have a Warhammer figure DH painted up, so this year's cake is being guarded by Father Orkmas

Mine’s coming from our local caterer. Available for delivery nationwide (obviously too late for this year).

Highly recommended.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSSwgt-jPuq/

I had half a bag of presoaked mixed fruit leftover when I did our cake so I made one of these to take to work and it's bloody amazing, easily moist enough to cope with switching to GF flour. If you swapped the caster sugar for all brown sugar it would have more of a Christmas cake feel but it's a lovely recipe without that too.

www.easypeasy-lemonsqueezy.co.uk/tea-loaf-easy/

@Gliblet I detest fondant too. Love a traditional snowy peak cake like yours.
Icing mine tomorrow.

I’m a bit late as only just seen this thread. I’ve made a couple of cakes for others as I don’t like fruit cake.
I made a Tunis Cake for my family.

Just been decorating 2 cakes with my grandkids age 15 and 12. They had a bit of help with the fondant which I laid over the cake for them to smooth down. Otherwise they're all their own work and designs. It was definitely a rather messy morning, but great fun.

Oh OP, I absolutely love your cake! It's adorable. The way you've given Santa a big round belly under the blanket is so perfect. You are very talented!

I hope you enjoy eating it OP, please do update us once you've had a taste.

Best Christmas thread yet!

Well done everyone, so much talent!

I was inspired by you all and bought the ingredients today and made this one https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/make-mature-christmas-cake

Half the amount and subbed for gf and df but its out of the oven and looks so good.

Going to marzipan and (fondant) ice it tomorrow or Wednesday.

I am so chuffed. My first ever.

I only bought white fondant icing and can't be bothered being too fancy with the decoration si am not going out to buy colouring. Any suggestions for a simple white fondant decoration? I thought of stars

aw that looks great ! Well done

I did mine tonight. I kept it simple - because I don’t have the skills not to!

Wow they are brilliant.

I wouldn't call them simple ! I love the holly one in particular . Really professional looking .

Thank you, but I just used a holly leaf stamp, and the tree is just holly leaves piled up! So easy.

Already decided on next years design too...

I know the video you mean, I did the alternative with pure orange juice, three ingredients, just fruit, juice and flour but made them in a muffin tin and they were delicious. I don't think they keep like a traditional cake but very easy to make and are lovely.