Christmas Cake Icing

This is a wonderfully creamy frosting that goes well with pumpkin bread carrot cake chocolate cake on cookies or between cookies.

Christmas cake icing. Eleni tzirki from the waitrose cookery school shows you how to apply layers of marzipan and icing to beautifully finish a festive fruit cake. 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. How to heat treat egg whites. This frosting can even be used as a glue to decorate gingerbread houses and cakes like my irish christmas cake.

Last year i was just too damn tired to even contemplate icing my cake. Roll out almond paste on a board dusted with icing sugar large enough to cover the entire cake. Royal icing can also be used to simply pipe decorative elements on the cake such as swirls swags and snowflakes. To apply to cake brush cake with some heated apricot jam honey or golden syrup.

I confess this has often been for me a last minute affair late on christmas eve. You can keep it simple or go full on festive the hardest thing is deciding how you want to do it. Dust your hands and the work surface with a little icing sugar and knead the marzipan until soft. Gently ease around the cake and smooth over with palm of hands until smooth all over.

If your decoration skills are somewhat limited it is easy to make a plain iced cake look spectacular with nothing more than a piece of ribbon and a little holly. It was a fun novelty cake but definitely didn t look professional. Icing your christmas cake is fun and a great way to get yourself in the christmas spirit. Delia s royal icing recipe.

Icing a christmas cake can be done a few weeks before you plan to serve it so get it done early and it ll be one less thing to worry about on the big day. This ratio of egg white to powdered sugar when whipped to perfection transforms into a light fluffy and very sturdy icing. Roll out half the marzipan to fit the top of the. To shop for you.

If you want chocolate frosting add 1 4 to 1 2 cup cocoa according to how rich you want it. Above quantity will completely cover a 20cm 8 cake. I left the marzipan and icing in the cupboard and instead decided a naked christmas cake was the way forward.