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Different Christmas Wedding Cake Designs

Find some pictures for Christmas wedding cake designs so that you can see all the beautiful wedding cakes that can be made.

You will see that wedding cake designers can design just about any size, shape or color of cake. They have some incredible pictures of wedding cakes themed around Christmas. You can have cakes with icing ribbons making the cake look like a gift or you can have a cake shaped as a Christmas tree.

The ideas are endless when it comes to a wedding cake for your Christmas wedding. All you need to do is see all the wedding cake pictures to get some great ideas.

Present Christmas Cake

Gift Boxes Christmas Cake

Winter Wedding Cake

You can have sheet cakes, layer cakes or even fountain cakes. You can have different types of icing and different colors of icing that match your theme color. You can have cakes with flowers or cakes without flowers. You can even have cakes with fancy toppers or the traditional bride and groom toppers. There are thousands of pictures of cakes for Christmas. You can even have a sheet cake shaped as a Christmas tree with ornaments and lights on it. Bakeries can be very imaginative when it comes to making theme wedding cakes.

Whether you are having a big wedding or a small wedding, the cake is going to be the last thing you do to entertain your guests for the night. You want a cake that you will like as well as something that your guests will enjoy eating. Take some time to find the right tasting cake and the right frosting for the cake. Plan the wedding and then find a cake that will compliment the wedding colors and theme.

Then you can find other things you need for the cake such as the serving set. You will need a wedding knife and server for the cake cutting ceremony.

If you have ideas and just do not know if that is the right idea for a wedding cake, here at Cakechannel we have Christmas wedding cake ideas that will delight even the toughest critic.

You might find the colors and decoration you want on your wedding cake along with other delicious delights.

Christmas wedding cake ideas are something everyone needs. You can find some beautiful pictures with elegant designs when you are thinking about ideas for the perfect wedding cake.

Take a look at the many pictures and select one or two that you might like for your truly special day.

Saturday

Christmas Cake Pictures, Designs, Decorating Tips & Supplies

Make Your Holiday Even More Sweet with the Christmas Cakes

Mrs. Williams is our favorite aunt. She is a bundle of endless energy. For Christmas, her home is the place to be. Our entire neighborhood will be found hanging at her porch at that time of the year.

Among all the other things, one thing which we all crave is her home baked cake. She spilled the beans, I should say, on the day when I asked her to tell me how she manages to pull such a fantastic feat of making the cake.

Out of the repertoire of making cakes, she told me one of them. Last year I got the opportunity to bake a Christmas cake under her watchful eye.

She told me to keep a cup of water ready. The other ingredients needed were four large eggs, dried fruit, a cup of brown sugar, flour, mixed spice, nuts, sherry wine( of course), a teaspoon of salt, grated lemon, margarine, honey or treacle and a cup of sugar.

We checked the sherry wine; it tasted great, just right for the occasion.

First we sieved the dry ingredients. Then we took a large bowl and then put the peel, fruit, nuts, eggs, margarine, sugar, treacle, and flour and stirred it till the mixture turned soft.

There is no need to mention how important Christmas is. It is great fun celebrating Christmas. Just imagine all the excitement while decorating Christmas tree and preparing your home for this lovely holiday. The best part of this celebration is making Christmas cake. To make the holiday more special, Christmas cake is a must as it adds more charm and joy to the celebration.

There are hundreds and thousands different recipes that can be found on the Web depending on your taste and preferences. Everyone has different taste but maybe one of the ideal recipe for Christmas cake is Sponge cake with creamy filling. Here are some interesting Christmas cakes in which I hope you will enjoy.

Santa's Christmas Cake

If you are not an expert in decorating cakes, you will surely love this cake as it is not very difficult for decorating. First bake two 20cm round layers and grease them with creamy filling. Cover the cake with white fondant making the surface smooth. Make the flowers and the leaves out of gum paste and letters out of red fondant. Then form the Santa's head out of gum paste. Make Santa's beard, moustaches and the Santa's cap fur out of icing using piping bag.

Silver Christmas Cake

This simple but elegant Christmas cake is perfect if you want to wow your friends and family. For Silver Christmas Greetings Cake you will have to bake two 18cm square layers, which you will grease with creamy filling.

Then cover it with white fondant making sure to trim away any excess fondant using sharp knife. Use fondant colored in silver to form the letters, which you will attach on sides of the cake. In the middle of the cake, place the Christmas tree, which you will make out of white fondant and decorate it with silver ornaments.

Snowflakes Christmas Cake

This lovely Snow Flakes Cake is made of two 18cm round layers and creamy filling between these layers. It is covered with fondant colored in blue with food coloring. Snowflakes are made out of sugar florist paste, using plunger cutters.

Cut several different sizes of snowflakes and stick them on the flat surface of the cake. Then write "Merry Christmas" with icing using piping bag and tip with small hole.

Three Christmas Trees Cake

For this cake, bake two 18cm square layers and use creamy filling to grease them. Then cover the cake with fondant colored in light blue. Cover the half of the cake with light pink colored fondant.

Use Christmas tree plunger cutter and cut three Christmas trees, then cut a snowflakes using snowflakes plunger and stick them on the surface of the cake. Write "Merry Christmas" using fondant and letters fondant molds. Fill the mold with fondant or gum paste thus making this beautiful letters. Color the fondant with purple color using food coloring.

Santa's Sleigh Christmas Cake

For this cake you will need three 18cm round layers and creamy filling to spread the layers with. Cover the cake with white fondant cutting the excess of the fondant around the base of the cake. Rub up the surface of the cake to gain the flat and smooth surface. Make several Santa out of gum paste and attach them on the sides of the cake. On top of the cake, place sleigh, reindeers and Santa sitting in his sleigh. Make all these decorations out of fondant colored in suitable colors.

For this Unique Christmas Cake you will have to bake a ball shaped cake using a Wilton Sports Ball Pan. This pan has two half spheres and are 6 inch diameter. When you have baked the cake cut it in two halves and put filling in between.

Also bake a Sponge round cake, place it on a cake tray and cover it with icing. On top of the round cake, place the ball shaped cake and cover it with icing. Decorate the ball with two colored icing using piping bag and appropriate tips. This lovely cake looks like Christmas tree decoration.

This cake is consists of two layers and filling between them. Cover the whole cake with white fondant taking care to make the flat and smooth surface. Take different sizes of metal star cutters, make as many stars as you like out of fondant and paint it with paint brush and food coloring in gold color. Then take two angels cutters, cut angels out of fondant and place them in the middle of the cake. Color and decorate them as seen on the picture and the cake will be awesome.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas Cake

This interesting cake is made out of two layers and the filling greased between them. Then the cake is covered with white fondant suitable for decorating. Then, letters are made out of fondant colored in red with food coloring using letters fondant & gum paste molds. Made letters are glued with the help of royal icing.

After making letters, make reindeers (four of them), out of brown fondant using reindeer mold and finally make Santa Clause out of fondant using appropriate mold. Color the Santa in suitable colors using paint brush and food coloring. Stick these decorations with royal icing.

Christmas Lantern Cake

This Christmas Lantern cake is made of two 18cm round layers greased with the filling. Cover the cake with white fondant making the surface of the cake flat. Using letter molds make letters out of fondant and stick them with edible glue. On top of the cake make lantern with a bow out of fondant. In order to make lantern, use lantern mold. Color the lantern using food coloring and paint brush. Make bow out of fondant and also color it with gold color.

Santa's Christmas Cake

For this cake you will have to make two layers and make creamy filling to grease the layers. Cover the cake with white fondant. Make flat surface and cut the excess fondant around the bottom border of the cake. Using piping bag and appropriate tip make hair, beard and the moustaches of Santa Clause. Make hat out of red fondant with little dots made out of white fondant. Make nose out of fondant and at the end use letter molds make letters saying "Merry Christmas".

Christmas Cake Pictures

Christmas Cake Pictures to Spark Your Imagination

My aunt William is an expert at making picture perfect Christmas cakes. Not only she makes interesting recipes but she even frosts them well.

She says that some of the cakes which she makes are more or less wedding cakes, which she has cleverly modified or imaginatively changed to Christmas cakes.

She chanced upon our web site and was astounded to see delightful and elaborately tasteful Christmas cakes. Most of them are wedding cakes which look so good that with imagination, they could even look wonderful as Christmas cakes.

She smiled and said that finally she has met her match when she saw the Christmas cake pictures displayed in our Picture Gallery. She is thankful to the site and says that she would love to try out some of the cakes on the web site.

So could you. Our Christmas cake picture gallery is detailed with some of your favorite designs, tiers and toppings. They help you make an ideal choice about the make, color and the flavor you want on the cake.

In our Picture Gallery, you could find interesting cake pictures with exquisite designs. After you choose the cake, you can even tell us that you want a cake which could be made from the same decorator or baker who made the cakes shown on the picture gallery.

You are even free to use your imagination and ask for the cake which could be somewhat a mix of the one shown on the picture gallery as well as some from your own creativity.

Have a look at some eye catching and tempting Christmas cake pictures in our Cake Gallery and choose your favorite kind.

Christmas Cake Decorating Ideas

This "Wedding Bells" Christmas Cake may very well be your "ordinary" Christmas Cake – you may change the colors and decorations and still have stunningly elegant cake.

Dragons and Daffodils Cakes Phone: 01443 671314

Recipes:

Ingredients

Whisky to soak the fruit in for 48 hours

12 oz S. R. flour

4 oz half cherries

1 teaspoon mixed spice

4 oz chopped peel

4 oz ground almonds

8 oz butter

8 oz currants

8 oz sultanas

8 oz raisons

8 oz castor sugar

4 eggs

8 tablespoons milk

Method

Soak the dried fruit in whisky for a few days. Set out four bowls. Clean and mix the fruit. In a second bowl mix the dry ingredients, namely the flour, spice and ground almonds. In the largest bowl cream the butter and sugar together, and in the fourth bowl beat together the eggs and milk. Stir in alternatively, a little at a time, the flour mixture and the egg mixture to the butter and sugar.

Lastly add the fruit gradually. Mix thoroughly. Line an 8" diameter cake tin with first brown paper, then greaseproof paper. Bake for 4 hours. First hour Gas mark 3-4, Electric 350-375 deg F, then reduces to Gas mark 1-2, Electric 275-300 deg F. Once the cake is cooked cool for half an hour and then make holes in the cake with the skewers and pour the sherry over. Wrap well in tin foil and keep for at least a month to mature.

The bells are made out of the cut out icing shapes explained in Sweet Sixteen Cake

Royal Icing

This smooth, hard-drying icing is perfect for making decorations that last. It is also useful as a "cement" to fasten decorations together.

Ingredients:

3 Tablespoons Wilton Meringue Powder

1 lb. (4 cups) confectioners' sugar (about 1lb.)

6 Tablespoons warm water

Beat all ingredients until icing forms peaks (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer). Recipe makes 3 cups.

Note: Keep all utensils completely grease-free for proper icing consistency.

Almond Paste

Ingredients

500g (1lb) almonds)

250g (8oz) icing sugar

250g (8oz) caster sugar

2 eggs or 4 yolks

2.5 ml (½ teaspoon) almond essence

5ml lemon Juice

Method

Mix both of the sugars and the almonds together. Beat the eggs or the egg yolks with the lemon juice and the almond essence and add to the almonds and mix to a smooth paste. Makes 2lb of almond paste sufficient to cover an eight-inch cake

Apricot glaze for a 10" cake

1 cup Apricot preserves

Heat preserves to boiling, strain. Brush on cake while still hot. Let dry. Glaze will dry to a hard finish in 15 minutes or less.

This beautiful elegant Christmas cake is not difficult even for those with very limited experience of cake decorating. The most difficult part of the operation is to get the specially shaped pans. At the time of writing I found a similar tin at bake ware. I simulated the bottom two layers by cooking the cakes in a bowl shaped like the one below. A similar bund pan can achieve the top shape.

Requirements

1 cake board x 10 inches

1 8-inch cake tine (which will be surrounded by the holly on the bottom)

Plastic holly

1 cake board x 8 inches

8-inch bottom tier rocket shaped cake

5-inch fruitcake (or dummy shape)

6-inch middle tier fruitcake

4-inch fruitcake (or dummy shape)

3-inch top individual Christmas cake shape fruitcake

24 icing bells

Royal icing

Apricot glaze

Almond paste

To assemble the cake decide whether the cakes in between the layers are going to be layers of a real cake or whether or not they will be dummies. There is a good case for using a cake tin here as a dummy. It is not a step normally to be recommended. However the color of silver is difficult to obtain with food dyes, and a new silver cake pan, provides the cake with color and balance. A cake tin can also be covered with gold or silver paper to create the same effect.

Cover the three real cakes or the five real cakes with apricot glaze and almond paste and leave overnight.Place the largest cake on the board and cover with royal icing, and then sprinkle some powdered sugar on whilst the icing is still wet, this will give the appearance of a dusting of snow. Edible dust is another alternative to make the cake sparkle. The next tier can be a real cake or a dummy.

Silver cake tin can be used to create the effect of silver. Silver is a difficult color to achieve easily with dye, the nearest available color is gray. A cake tin can be covered with gold or silver Christmas paper, or it can be a real cake and finished with gray icing.

Place the second tier on the cake and cover with royal icing and then the powdered sugar. Repeat the next layer either with the dummy cake or the real one, but use the same technique as in the first cake. Repeat with the top layer of cake.

To finish decorating the cake pipe the gold loops using scrolls or coils and make the bells and the star as explained in lesson 11 making pictures from icing The gold bells can be already made and bought if you do not have the time to make them yourself.