For fast and simple festive entertaining, take a look at our no-cook Christmas entertaining concepts.
Preserve it basic
In case you’re making a standard fruitcake for Christmas, maintain it basic with a layer of marzipan and white icing. Get artistic with fondant icing offcuts to stamp out festive shapes. This can be a nice possibility in the event you’re not very assured with cake adorning and likewise for youths to become involved. Comply with our basic Christmas cake recipe and prime with fondant icing stars.
Crushed sweet canes
Sweet canes are an prompt image of Christmas and now they are often an prompt Christmas cake ornament too. Our white Christmas cake is one to make if nobody within the household is eager on fruit cake – a easy vanilla cake and buttercream, with vibrant crushed pink and white sweet canes including a daring splash of color.
Candied fruit
Clementines are a staple of the fruit bowl throughout the festive season. Put them to placing use as a Christmas cake ornament by coating them in egg whites and sugar and leaving to set, then organize on prime of the cake. We have used them (together with candied herbs) to embellish this clementine yoghurt cake, or go for entire candied oranges to prime this spiced brandy butter cake.
Make it snow
Create a easy snowy scene for a sublime, minimalist impact. This white chocolate fudge cake recipe is a crowdpleaser to serve at Christmas, and is solely topped with white chocolate shavings. Our white chocolate roulade with Baileys (a brand new method to make use of up that bottle within the cabinet) makes use of white sprinkles for the same impact. Each these methods is also used on a basic Christmas fruitcake coated in white royal or fondant icing.
Collect pine cones
Who says Christmas cake decorations should be edible? This fashionable stack of festive pine cones, cinnamon sticks and rosemary is completed with a dusting of icing sugar for a Christmas cake that makes an affect however solely takes minutes to do – an ideal possibility in the event you’re working in need of time. The right of entirety to our vegan Christmas cake recipe.
Add truffles
Christmas is the time of indulgence, Comply with our chocolate truffles recipe to make your personal and roll in numerous coatings to make a reasonably sample spherical the sting of a cake. We have used coconut shavings and white chocolate truffles to embellish this Christmas snowball cake, or make a festive basic the star of the present on this Ferrero Rocher cake and prime with, what else? Loads of Ferrero Rocher.
Bake biscuits
In case you’re baking a batch of gingerbread biscuits over the festive interval, save just a few to embellish your Christmas cake. Stand them up in comfortable royal icing earlier than it units to create a Christmassy scene – choose one form for a theme, or use a complete mixture of gingerbread males, Christmas bushes, snowflakes and stars.
Swirls of icing
In case you’re utilizing buttercream or royal icing to embellish your Christmas cake, use a piping bag or simply the tip of a palette knife to attract clever swirls within the icing. You do not want good piping abilities for this rustic method and it really works equally effectively with white or chocolate icing – create a woodland stump on this gluten-free chocolate fudge cake recipe or use white icing to depict a snowscene.
Contemporary fruit
In case you’ll be consuming your Christmas cake quickly after adorning, organize a collection of recent fruit to prime the cake. Slice figs into quarters, add slices of dried orange and scatter with glowing pomegranate seeds or shiny redcurrants – use no matter you need to hand. It is an effective way to jazz up any Christmas cake – do that mulled wine and hazelnut loaf cake for one thing new.
Enhance a chocolate showstopper
In case you’re making a chocolate Christmas cake, take inspiration from Edd Kimber and prime with shards of After Eight goodies. Edd makes use of them to prime his decadent After Eight bundt cake recipe (full with a peppermint cheesecake filling) however they’d be an incredible seasonal addition to any chocolate cake you make in December – take a look at our chocolate desserts assortment for extra concepts.
