Enjoy christmas with versatile plum cake

Enjoy Christmas with Versatile Plum Cake Like the festival of Christmas is incomplete without Santa, gifts and a tree, so is it without the delicious Christmas cake which mom makes! Keeping all the chocolate and butter cream cake recipes aside, this cake recipe is specially designed for Christmas. These cake recipes are very rich and dark fruitcakes, which include as many dried fruits and brandy as possible. They are also known as "the plum cake" which is the most valued recipe in families across the world, as baking these is surely a family affair.

The specialty of these plum cakes is the same old traditional taste that our taste buds relish only once a year, along with some colorful cake decorating and this is what makes the festival warm and wonderful. Well, apart from the baking the cake, Ii is sure you also love tasting that yummy frosting and those candies topped on the cake! So, read on and find a great Christmas recipe along with some delicious German plum cake decorating ideas mentioned below.

However, it's all worth the effort when you use some cake decorating designs! To start, use a medium bowl to mix all the dried fruits mentioned above in the brandy and keep it overnight. The next day, grease a baking dish with butter, line it with parchment paper, and grease again. Then in another bowl, add the flour, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, cloves and salt and keep it aside. Mix cream butter and add brown sugar and eggs gradually till they are whisked to make a soft batter. Also mix the molasses and apple juice separately first and then add to the butter and flour mixture. Mix all this with the dried fruits and then add into the baking dish, bake in the preheated oven at 275 degrees F for about 3 hours, and then decorate the cake with various Christmas cake decorations.

After that amazing cake recipe rich with dried fruits and alcohol, I am sure you are eagerly waiting to find some great Christmas plum cake decorating ideas! Without any delay, here are a few of the best Christmas elements which can be used as fantastic cake decorations, coming right up for you.

Fondant Icing Fondant icing can be used very widely for coming up with some of the easiest Christmas plum cake decorating ideas. You can prepare stars, Christmas trees, Santa and Rudolph, bells and ornaments, with fondant as all you have to do is cut them out with cutters, or pipe them on the cake. You can use these cake decorations in various colors like pink, red, green, white, yellow, orange, etc., by using various flavors and food coloring in the frosting.

Candies Using various types of candies and chocolates to decorate the cake has always been a major criteria in cake decoration. With the wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors which are available in these candy decorations, you can use your imagination to the fullest to decorate your Christmas cake. You can use M&Ms, candy sticks, jelly beans, edible people and animals, licorice, candy grass, gummy bears, fondant flowers, peppermint flavored canes, sugar pearls and candy confetti can be used as cake toppings.

Ribbons and Lace Another major part of the beautiful plum cake decorations can be using colorful ribbons and laces around the cake borders or circumference. Usually Christmas plum cake joy of baking is round and square in shapes. Thus, you can use a thick strip of red, golden or green ribbon to cover the sides of the cake and then make a bow at one end.

There are various types of laces specially designed for these easy cake decorating ideas but if normal ones can also be used. Cakes get an elegant look when they are frosted with fondant and then covered with ribbons. Therefore, you can definitely add this element to your Christmas cake.