Yeah, I know this is a bit late for this year's Christmas but I reckon it's not too late for next year's! The latest issue of Flavours featured an excellent tips on decorating your Christmas cake - hassle free and dead easy.- All you need to do is just cut out a stencil of any snowflakes pattern on a reasonably thick paper (yes, make sure it's thick enough to hold on the icing sugar), push a needle through the middle and stick the needle (together with the stencil, obviously) into the centre of the cake.
- For extra precaution, brush the stencil with some water to just slightly moisturise the surface so that the dusted sugar would stick on (instead of falling off onto the cake) when you remove the stencil.
- Using a fine sieve, dust some icing sugar onto the stencil and cake, making sure that the sugar covers the cake and forms clear edges of pattern along the stencil.
I made this Victoria Sponge Cake for my neighbour's Christmas get-together and the simple, mess-free decoration looked very presentable as a gift or a potluck dish!This decoration is also great for little cupcakes but I do find that the bigger your cake is (at least a 9-inch), the more elaborate pattern of stencils that you can experiment on. Try it for the next Christmas!
