Merry Christmas Cake Design Modern - Best Christmas Cake Decoration Ideas

Merry Christmas cake decoration HD Images Download Free, Christmas Cake Design ideas and designs: Christmas cake is a type of fruit cake served during Christmas time in many countries. Here are some Christmas decorations ideas for your cake. For those of you with a sweet tooth enjoy doing these Christmas decorations on your lovely cakes. I hope you like these Christmas cake decoration ideas and design examples.

What are Christmas cakes also known as?

Usually, Christmas cakes are also known as:

Jesus Birthday cakes
Christ Birthday Cakes
25th December cakes
Christmas Festive cakes
Christmas Party cakes
Christmas Feast cakes
X-mas cakes

Well I think you just answered your own question, ‘Christmas Cake’

However, if you want to know what a Christmas cake is, then that’s a different story.

In the UK a Christmas cake is a rich fruit cake. Dark in color from the use of brown sugar and treacle/molasses. Heavy due to the amount of dried fruit and citrus peel in it, and nutty due to the almonds.

Italians have a Christmas cake, they call this Panettone. This is also a fruit cake, but much lighter as there are more cakes and less fruit. I have never made it, but from the taste and texture, I would say it is a dough-based cake.

I am sure other countries that celebrate Christmas will have their own version of a Christmas cake, but I can only relate to you my own knowledge.

Happy hunting.

What is your best Christmas cake recipe?

Mary Berry's classic Christmas cake

Ingredients

For the cake

175g/6oz raisins

350g/12oz natural glacé cherries, halved, rinsed, and thoroughly dried

500g/1lb 2oz currants

350g/12oz sultanas

150ml/¼pt brandy or sherry, plus extra for feeding

2 oranges, zest only

250g/9oz butter, softened

250g/9oz light muscovado sugar

4 free-range eggs, at room temperature

1 tbsp black treacle

75g/3oz blanched almonds, chopped

250g/9oz plain flour

1½ tsp mixed spice

For the covering

about 3 tbsp apricot jam, warmed and sieved

icing sugar

675g/1lb 8oz marzipan

For the royal icing

3 free-range eggs, whites only

675g/1½lb icing sugar, sifted

3 tsp lemon juice

1½ tsp glycerine

Method

For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy, and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days, stirring daily.
Grease and line a 23cm/9in a deep, round tin with a double layer of greased greaseproof paper. Preheat the oven to 140C/275F/Gas 1.
Measure the butter, sugar, eggs, treacle, and almonds into a very large bowl and beat well (preferably with an electric free-standing mixer). Add the flour and ground spice and mix thoroughly until blended. Stir in the soaked fruit. Spoon into the prepared cake tin and level the surface.
Bake in the center of the preheated oven for about 4-4½ hours, or until the cake feels firm to the touch and is a rich golden brown. Check after two hours, and if the cake is a perfect color, cover with foil. A skewer inserted into the center of the cake should come out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
When cool, pierce the cake at intervals with a fine skewer and feed with a little extra brandy. Wrap the completely cold cake in a double layer of greaseproof paper and again in foil and store in a cool place for up to three months, feeding at intervals with more brandy. (Don’t remove the lining paper when storing as this helps to keep the cake moist.)
The week before you want to serve, begin covering the cake.
For the covering, stand the cake upside down, flat side uppermost, on a cake board which is 5cm/2in larger than the size of the cake.
Brush the sides and the top of the cake with the warm apricot jam.
Liberally dust a work surface with icing sugar and then roll out the marzipan to about 5cm/2in larger than the surface of the cake. Keep moving the marzipan as you roll, checking that it is not sticking to the work surface. Dust the work surface with more icing sugar as necessary.
Carefully lift the marzipan over the cake using a rolling pin. Gently level and smooth the top of the paste with the rolling pin, then ease the marzipan down the sides of the cake, smoothing it at the same time. If you are careful, you should be able to cover the cake with no excess marzipan to trim but, if necessary, neatly trim excess marzipan from the base of the cake with a small sharp knife. Cover the cake loosely with baking parchment and leave for a few days to dry out before adding the royal icing.
For the royal icing, whisk the egg whites in a large bowl until they become frothy. Mix in the sifted icing sugar a tablespoonful at a time. You can do this with a hand-held electric whisk, but keep the speed low.
Stir in the lemon juice and glycerine and beat the icing until it is very stiff and white and stands up in peaks.
Cover the surface of the icing tightly with clingfilm and keep in a cool place until needed.
To ice the cake, place all the icing onto the top of the cake. Spread evenly over the top and sides of the cake with a palette knife. For a snow-peak effect, use a smaller palette knife to rough up the icing.
Leave the cake loosely covered overnight for the icing to harden a little, then wrap or store in an airtight container in a cool place until needed.

What are the best ways to decorate a cake?

The purpose behind cake decorating is to turn an ordinary cake into a spectacular piece of food art. Decorating cakes can be as simple or as complex as you wish. Simple decoration can be highly effective if it has the best theme. I used the below ways to decorate a cake

Firstly, I choose the best theme to decorate.

Use cake cutting tools to give different shapes to the cake. Frosting or icing techniques required for changing the look & feel of the cake. Typical frosting or icing styles include Buttercream or Vienna cream, Fluffy Frosting, Royal icing, Sugar paste, whipped cream.

I Used other things to decorate like

- Fruits - strawberry, grapes, litchi, dried fruit

- Grated Chocolate give a different look

-dusted cocoa

- nuts

- jam preserved.

Use barbie doll, some vessel to give it attractive look.