This adorable Santa cake is an 8" layer cake frosted in vanilla. I tinted a small amount peach for his face, cut a red fondant section for his hat, and piped curly beard, mustache and trim around his face. I gave him pink, rosy cheeks using pink luster dust. The rosy cheeks really made the cake! I made this cake to take to a Christmas party my family was invited to earlier this month and it was a hit with everyone.
I have the fortune of being invited to an extremely fun party for just us girls called a "Tree Skirt Party." For this party, you are required to wear your tree skirt- yes, the one under your Christmas Tree- as part of your outfit. So many of us find very elegant, and creative ways, to do this. It is a lovely night and I look forward to it each year. This year I was asked by the Hostess to make a cake of a lady wearing her tree skirt for the party. This was my first "doll cake" and it was so fun and much easier than I imagined it would be. To make it festive yet simple, I made her skirt look like a Santa-hat style tree skirt, and gave a holly & berries border along the bottom. I added a sparkly red bow to the dolls hair to match her outfit.
The Classic Yule Log is a type of cake I have wanted to do for a long time. I used a very traditional recipe: a chocolate sponge with coffee flavored mascarpone filling with a fudge icing. The outer icing was smoothed to give a bark appearance, and I made some holly & berry accents and little mushrooms out of fondant. This cake is one of my all-time favorites, and it was hard for me to part with it. I just love the perfect balance of tradition bordering on cheesy.
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