What is Christmas without a delicious cake? We have enriched you with great recipes for Christmas cakes in another post. Just like the festive table and the rest of the home, the Christmas cake should also be decorated atmospherically. All imaginative decoration ideas are possible with fondant, cookies, candies or chocolate. Decorate your cake exceptionally this Christmas and create a real eye-catcher. Get inspired by our 15 great ideas and cooking tips.
Decorating cakes for Christmas: The eye eats too!
“The eye eats with you!” is one of the favorite sentences of many hobby chefs. Connoisseurs swear that what looks visually appealing also tastes better to the palate. It has now been scientifically proven that our sense of taste is based on the appearance of food and drinks. The motto applies in full force particularly to sweets and desserts such as cakes, tarts, cookies,Cupcakes and other sweetsn. A wonderfully decorated cake for Christmas conjures up a good mood and sweetens the pre-Christmas season. Colorful decoration fun in the Christmas preparation of bakeries is a favorite activity of young and old during the festive days.
decorate with fondant
When you think of beautiful cake decorations, fondant comes to mind. Decor fondant can be used to decorate cakes, tarts and...pastriesCover it and create small, individual Christmas works of art. You can make the soft, pasty sugar mass yourself or buy it ready-made. Fondant comes in every color you can imagine. In addition, great effects can also be created with special food colors and a brush.
minimalistand decorate elegantly in white
There are no limits to creativity when decorating with fondant. From monochrome and minimalist, to flat motifs, to elaborate works of art consisting of several figures. However, you have to be aware that working with fondant and covering cakes with it requires experience. A lot of sensitivity and practice are required to roll out the icing perfectly and distribute it evenly on the cake.
Humorous cake decoration
If you have no experience working with fondant, you don't have to miss out on a pretty decoration for your Christmas cake. You can order imaginative fondant figures from any good pastry shop. Of course, you should do it in good time and have an idea of what you want. In this way, any cake can be decorated for Christmas without much effort.
Decorate Christmas cakes, of course
The typical Christmas colors are green, red and white and to decorate a Christmas cake you have to refer to them. One option is to color parts of the cake, the cream or the coating using food coloring or incorporate Christmas decoration elements. Some people consciously avoid additional coloring, especially when preparing desserts, and prefer to use natural decoration. A beautiful idea for effective decoration of a cake for Christmas is to make it with fresh rosemary and perhaps a few red berries of your choice. This decoration fitsespecially with a simple cake, for example lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting.
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A cake or cake for Christmas doesn't necessarily have to be lavishly decorated. In this way you avoid the additional calories that are in a sugar mass or cream. Even plain-colored and very sparingly decorated cakes can taste wonderful, such as this coconut cake in the picture. It looks like a snowy ground on which an angel has landed. Find out the recipe below.
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Ingredients:
- 10 egg whites
- Zest of a lemon
- Peel of an orange
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 TL Weinstein
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 200 g sweetener of your choice
- 50 g coconut flour
- 2 tablespoons arrowroot flour or other starch flour
- 1 TL Xanthan
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tsp cinnamon
For the cream:
- 30g sweetener
- 1 TL Weinstein
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
- 60 g Coconut grater
preparation:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Mix coconut flour, arrowroot flour, xanthan gum and cinnamon thoroughly in a large bowl. Add the sweetener and set aside. Beat 10 egg whites with a mixer until foamy. Add the lemon juice and the zest of the lemon and orange, then also the salt and the Vienna stone and mix well. Add the sweetener and beat until fluffy. First slowly add only 1/3 of the dry mixture to the egg whites and then gradually add the rest. It is very important that the mixture remains airy. Put everything in a springform pan and bake for about 50 minutes. Then let it cool upside down for 1 hour. Cut the cake into three plates. Mix the ingredients for the cream, except for the coconut flakes, together very well using a hand mixer for 3-4 minutes. Lubricate the cake plates with this, layer them on top of each other and finally sprinkle with desiccated coconut.
With cinnamon cookies
Delicious, crunchy cinnamon cookies with their irresistible smell are an inseparable part of the Christmas season and ensure a good mood for young and old. Perhaps hardly anyone has thought about how the sweet Christmas cookies could be used differently, for example for atmospheric edible decorations. You can use it to decorate cakes, tarts and even the Christmas tree. We present a simple recipe for cinnamon cookies here.
Ingredients:
- 250 g Flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
- 1 No
- 200 g Butter
- 150g powdered sugar
- 50 g ground nuts (e.g. hazelnuts or walnuts)
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Preparation:
Knead all the ingredients into a dough, cover with cling film and chill for at least 30 minutes or preferably overnight. Preheat the oven to 180°C, roll out the dough thinly and bake for 10 minutes. To decorate, you can mix powdered sugar with a little freshly squeezed orange juice, pour it into a piping bag and use it to decorate the cookies nicely.
CuteChristmas tree made from icing cream
If you want to decorate a cake for Christmas, it's always nice if the decoration is also edible. If you have never worked with fondant, it is advisable not to try it for the first time at Christmas. Then you're better off using a different decoration. It works much easier if you prepare egg white, cream cheese or butter cream, put it in a piping bag and use it to decorate the Christmas cake. These creams can also be colored easily.
with lollipops and candy canes
You don't necessarily have to prepare the edible decorations for a Christmas cake yourself. Any sweets such as candies, candy canes, sugar sprinkles, sugar pearls, edible glitter and other sprinkle decorations are suitable for this. They should be color-coordinated and selected to match Christmas.
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A good alternative to edible cake decorations, which are particularly suitable for the last minute, are decorative plastic figures such as Christmas trees, reindeer and others that fit the Christmas theme. In addition, you can combine edible and non-edible cake decorations. It is important that there is a happy atmosphere on the Christmas table.
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Also read:Recipe for winter cake with apple, pear or orange & cinnamon
