Christmas Cake Frosting

Last year i was just too damn tired to even contemplate icing my cake.

Christmas cake frosting. Dust your hands and the work surface with a little icing sugar and knead the marzipan until soft. Royal icing is made of egg whites powdered sugar and a dash of lemon juice. This is the best christmas cookie frosting recipe i use to top them. Icing your christmas cake is fun and a great way to get yourself in the christmas spirit.

To decorate your christmas cake without marzipan you can either fill and ice a cake with the buttercream or you top the cake with the fruit and nut crust. How to heat treat egg whites. Royal icing can also be used to simply pipe decorative elements on the cake such as swirls swags and snowflakes. If you want chocolate frosting add 1 4 to 1 2 cup cocoa according to how rich you want it.

I mean these are important things so i get it but i have opinions about cookies especially cut. This frosting can even be used as a glue to decorate gingerbread houses and cakes like my irish christmas cake. I left the marzipan and icing in the cupboard and instead decided a naked christmas cake was the way forward. Place the cake on a foil board or cake plate.

Or you can go all out stack two cakes with buttercream and top with the fruit and nut crust. You can keep it simple or go full on festive the hardest thing is deciding how you want to do it. I confess this has often been for me a last minute affair late on christmas eve. This is a wonderfully creamy frosting that goes well with pumpkin bread carrot cake chocolate cake on cookies or between cookies.

Fondant icing is the perfect christmas cake topping but for the rest of us pressured christmas caterers i have devised the simplest speediest christmas cake decorations. I ve been perfecting my christmas sugar cookies cut outs for 20 years. Most people have strong opinions about politics religion global warming etc. Roll out half the marzipan to fit the top of the.

Very often there s the odd robin or father christmas handed down through generations to decorate with but failing that a sprig of holly in the centre of the cake will give a festive touch. Delia s royal icing recipe. Decorating a christmas cake without marzipan or traditional icing.