I finally iced my Christmas cake. A very simple design seeing as this is also my first ever attempt. The pressure was on as my sister is a professional wedding cake maker and my mother is also very skilled - one wonders why I volunteered. But I'm quite pleased with the result. I was less pleased with the cake itself - I followed Delia's recipe and it was totally overcooked miles before she suggested. I've been feeding it over the past few weeks though with 'soaking mixture' - equal parts of sweet Oloroso sherry, dark rum and glycerine and it feels fairly sticky and moist now.
To decorate, I filled in any holes with marzipan before covering with marzipan (using warmed apricot jam as the 'glue'.
After the marzipan and I covered with fondant icing and topped simply with different shaped stars. First I tried all white stars...
I loved the all white look, but also wanted to experiment with some edible silver lustre I had in the cupboard. In the end I went half silver/half white. By the time I finished it was rather last, hence the rather poor quality photos...
I wish everyone very Happy Christmas! May you have a wonderful and fun-filled day and, of course, a wonderful lunch!
5 comments:
I think the cake turned out gorgeous! I've never done anything like this. I really should dive into fondant one of these days. I'm pretty bad with a pastry bag though.
Your cake is truly gorgeous Antonia! You say about your sister and mother being professional & skilled well, you are in the same league my dear friend!!! Well done :)
Happy New Year
Rosie x
I think star designs were definitely 'in' this year. Once I post my photos, you'll know what I mean!!!!
Hope you had a fabulous Christmas xxxx
Greg - thank you. I hope you had a great Christmas! I was surprised how 'easy' it was to decorate. Didn't go anywhere near a piping bag.
Rosie - thank you so much. I was quite pleased with this as a first attempt though it is nothing compared with your cake decorating skills!
Lynn - look forward to seeing your cake. I love anything with a star motif! Hope you had a great Christmas too.
That is an incredible looking cake. You did a great job!
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