Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 
I think I am most proud of this cake, I looked at loads of different designs other people had done but in the end I decided to freestyle and let my creativity produce the design. I first covered the fruit cake with marzipan and white regal icing. I then made up some icing sugar with water to a thick consistency to use as the glue. I rolled out green regal icing until it was about the same thickness as a one pound coin. I cut out mini holly leaves and then rolled small balls of the red regal icing. I stuck these onto the cake using the icing 'glue'. The bow puzzled me for a while but in the end I cut out two long strips of rolled out red icing, again about the same thickness as a pound coin, and stuck this onto the cake using the glue so it was asymmetrical. I then cut five more strips of red, two with the triangular end which I stuck onto the red icing already on the cake, I folded another strip to make the curl of the strip and then repeated with the other side and then covered the join line with the last smallest strip. Et voila! 

Most people didn't believe I had done the cake myself, and my grandmother thought I had bout the cake so didn't look to impressed at first. Until I explained it was own masterpiece. I have to say, it was the biggest compliment! 

I hope you all had a fabulous festive season and haven't got too many of the January blues!