Monday, December 16, 2013

Christmas Cakes!

I've really been enjoying making some adorable Christmas cake this season!  Here are photos


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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