12/2008 Christmas cake at the cake stall

These are slices of Christmas cake individually wrapped for sale on mine and Claire's cake stall at Columbia Road flower market last Christmas. I also made cake triangles to sell. Claire and I no longer do the stall, but were thinking of doing some days this December.

24/12/2008 christmas cake

I did make Christmas cake in 2007, but don't have any photo's. These are the cakes, and how I wrapped them for my family last year. These were photographed under my mum's Christmas tree.

21/12/2006 Christmas cake triangles

This is the first Christmas cake I ever made. I made it because my mum hadn't made one in a few years and I wanted a home made one. I made it in the September from 2 recipes in two of my mums books. I didn't know which one she used so I just evened out the amounts and ingredients between the two. I made one cake into 5 so and gave the pieces as gifts to my family and my friend Joanne. I made my own marzipan, and iced it like thus...



I also made my own Royal Icing.I never realised that it spread because I had only ever seen it in rollable form. I was really pleased that I could make it go in peaks!