We love an incredible-looking layered cake, especially at Christmas. Cake decorating ideas you’re not a fan of traditional fruitcake, you’ve come to the right place.
We’ve devised two base sponge recipes plus a few ideas for customising their decoration. Once your cake is baked and cooled, apply a crumb coat of cream cheese frosting and pick your favourite design. For a snowier look, skip the gold spray and layer white on white before decorating with our gingerbread star biscuits or chocolate trees. The cakes for this recipe aren’t difficult to make, but they are softer than some sponge recipes, so you’ll need to handle them carefully. Add extra sparkle to the Christmas table with this gloriously gilded, meringue-topped masterpiece. You’ll need fondant icing stars, a spritz of edible gold spray, gold leaf and some decorated meringue kisses. Roll out the fondant icing and stamp out snowflake shapes with a cutter.