Cake Decorating : Christmas Cake

Decorating Ideas
Christmas cake decorating ideas are plentiful in book, online and all over the place.
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a celebration of life.
What better way to celebrate it than by baking a cake? All most all our celebrations
are closely related to food that we consume on the occasion. Baking a Christmas
cake is an integral part of the celebrations.

As the season is associated with lots of happiness you can come up with innovative
Christmas cake decorating ideas.

When you think about Christmas the first thing you associate with it is the Santa.
You can make a Santa figure with sugar paste and put it on your cake. With white
icing you can create the snow that is generally around that time of the year. If you
are not the part of 'white' Christmas you can recreate it on your Christmas cake
decoration.

You can come up with Christmas cake decorating ideas from the three predominant
colors you find around that time. Traditionally the Christmas tree is decorated with
lots of glitter, the gifts packed with shiny gift papers. There is white snow around
the house. The Santa is supposed to be wearing a red coat and riding a sleigh pulled
by the red nosed reindeer. While decorating your Christmas cake if you use red,
white and green colors you will have a beautiful looking Christmas cake.

Christmas cake decorating ideas are bound to bring out the artist in you. If you like
to play with your food and enjoy it then you could use edible fresh flowers as
Christmas cake decoration. You can use rose petals, honeysuckle and calendulas to
decorate your plain Christmas cake.

If you prefer fruits to flowers you can use kiwis, oranges, strawberries and grapes
can be arranged on the top of the Christmas cake. You can glaze it with shiny syrup.
Or you can get some whipped cream put it on the sliced fresh figs and arrange it to
make a border for your cake.

You can not go wrong with chocolate. For Christmas cake decorating you can use
chocolate curls. Just use your vegetable peeler to peel the chocolate bar. You can
mold marzipan into different shapes. Make animals or flowers or vegetables out of
that and decorate your Christmas cake.

You can use lace paper dollies as a Christmas cake decorating idea. You can place it
over the cake before dusting. You will get wonderful lacy patterns. You can cut
some very lovely patterns from parchment paper such as flowers, polka dots,
diamonds, stars or vines and give your delectable cake equally delicious look.

You can make use of royal icing on the cake or get some icing that can be rolled out
to give a smooth finish to your Christmas cake.

You can come up with your own Christmas cake decorating ideas of your own if
you just let your imagination run wild. Most of the things are very easily available
in the stores. You can just buy the things and decorate your Christmas cake to
delight your family and friends and make their Christmas a truly an unforgettable
event.