Icing a Christmas Cake

As well as the Gingerbread house, I also donated a Christmas cake to my daughter's school fair, though I have to admit icing and me are not the best of friends.

Luckily since I have started blogging I have been inspired by the skills and expertise of fellow bloggers, such as Karen (at Lavender and Lovage) and her delightful mini Christmas cakes, here.

Taking inspiriation from her snowflakes I decided that I would use a snowflake theme on my cake, but wanted to do something which was not too complex!

The finished cake

I used bought marzipan and icing

Don't forget to use plenty of icing sugar when you roll
our fondant icing, or you will find it very difficult to use

I covered the cake with warm apricot jam
 (which I had strained) and then applied the marzipan
To ensure the icing stuck, I covered the marzipan
with boiled and cooled water

I rolled out the icing and covered the cake

I smoothed the icing and made sure the cake was
 completely covered

I used the spare icing to cut out five snowflakes
the large one needed something, so I thought the
silver balls would work well
I used small sugar balls to make the snowy background
the four smaller snowflakes were cut using the
Patterned snowflake cutters, the pattern is just visible.

Once I had put some cellophane  and ribbon on the cake, it  didn't look too bad, and I was quite proud to see it sitting on the raffle prize table at the fair.

I do hope that whoever won the cake,  was pleased  with their prize!