Wednesday 26 December 2012

Christmas Cake

So I finally finished it - at about lunchtime on Christmas Eve mind, but I finished it :-)

So, here we have an 8 inch square fruit cake (made with Delia's recipe) covered in marzipan and sugar paste. I managed to cover the cake and board together without ripping the icing, which I always feel is the hardest part as it's the most difficult thing to fix. It was a little bit lumpy, but I think once the decorations were added then the lumpy bits were less obvious.

I cut out some stars and sprayed them with silver lustre, cut out some holly leaves and modelled some berries and a little penguin which people tell me looks like a famous children's TV penguin, but that wasn't deliberate. The image must just be etched in my brain :-)

I also added some snowballs just to fill in the gap.




A vast improvement on last year's effort, I think :-)

In case you forgot...


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