You may remember my post last month, containing the recipe instructions for a great Christmas cake. It prompted quite a positive reaction, so here now are photographs of the rather more straightforward (although much more delicate) task of icing that cake.
Mixing the ingredients and colouring for the royal icing.
The first letters are drawn on the pre-iced Christmas cakes.
Icing sugar decorates every border of these Christmas cakes.
Dad found getting all the icing out of the piping tools to be something of a squeeze.
A Father Christmas character sitting beside a Christmas tree, atop our cake.
Both cakes turned out well – we’d made two, so we can have one and Matthew can have the other to take home.