Christmas cake - 25th December

This year I used a GF recipe for my Christmas cake for no other reason than I really liked the combination of fruit in the mix. I followed a recipe posted by The Gluten Free Alchemist back in October. Then I wrapped the cake in baking paper and foil giving it a very occasional feed with some Cointreau.

I was undecided about how to decorate the cake when I saw a FB post by Karen Davies (Karen Davies moulds and sugarcraft) which used a knitted fabric mould and a Christmas bauble mould to create Rudolph adorned with a Christmas bauble hanging from his antlers. The decoration really struck a chord with me as I am a keen knitter and I knew that I had all the moulds needed.

When it got to the week before Christmas I unwrapped the cake and covered it with a layer of marzipan and a layer of sugarpaste. I covered the cake board with a layer of sugarpaste decorating the edge with a red ribbon and also some sugarpaste holly leaves adding red chocoballs for the berries. I then set about making the decoration, following an online video. It took me most of an evening to slowly recreate the decoration but I finally got there. I used a Patchwork cutter 'Merry Christmas' which I pressed into the icing, first tracing the outline with a gold pen and then painting over it with gold sparkle dust. The final touch was to glue on PME Christmas tree sprinkles. Merry Christmas.