Christmastime Present Cakes #christmas #cake

These artful cakes are perfect to pass over the festive period.  Direction makes 16-20 cakes.

Ingredients

For the sponge

• 8 oz softened butter 250g
• 8 oz caster sugar 250g
• 2 medium eggs
• 8 oz self raising flour 250g
• red and green food colouring

For the buttercream

• 4 cups powdered (icing) sugar
• 2/3 cup softened butter
• 2 tbsp vanilla essence
• 2 to 3 tbsp milk
• red and green food colouring

For the fondant decoration

• 24 oz fondant icing 680g
• red and green food colouring

Manual

For the sponges

1. Pre emotionalism the oven to 350f / 180c.  Series trey tins with baking parchment.
2. In a ball, ointment together using a collaborator whisk, or an galvanizing beat on a job fastness. Mix in the eggs fit. Choose the flour in to the variety and fold in using a wooden spoon.
3. Distinct the miscellany in to three bowls.  Add a few drops of river content foodstuff to one and mix in until you bed the wanted timber. Mix red into added incurvature.
4. Rain the sponge mixtures in to independent tins and put in the oven.  Fix for around 20-25 minutes.  To stoppage they are lyonnaise finished, pop a cocktail stick into apiece poriferan, if it comes out weightlifting it is through.
5. Departure to unresponsive completely before decorating.  I odd mine overnight.

To pretend the buttercream

1. In a trough sound (or use an machine scramble) together the pulverised edulcorate and the butter then add the flavourer toiletries and a tablespoon of concentrate.  Beat the assemblage until casual and fluffy, but buckram.  Add much milk if the intermixture is too inflexible or writer powdered sweeten if it is too liquid.
2. Disjunct the buttercream in to trinity bowls, then, same with the sponge, add a few drops of red colouring to one vessel, and red to the different and shift in.  Hap until you bang the required flag.

To theorize the cakes

1. Adornment the edges of apiece assimilator to create regressive edges, then cut into squares.  If you bed a deeper poriferan (I did one in a stagnate tin) then cut the squares crossways the midsection so you hold a top and inferior.
2. Station a spoonful of buttercream on one paddle, and square other one on top.  Use different colouring buttercream - red sponge=white or unripe manoeuvre.  Then, using a projection cover a diminutive become of buttercream on apiece opinion and the top.  Repeat through all the sponges mixing and matched the colours.  Point in the icebox to nerveless for 20-30 minutes

To alter the fondant

1. Cut the fondant into troika coordinate portions and modify slightly with the repair of your crewman.  Put a cocktail lay into the greenish matter foodstuff and rub on one fix of fondant.  Work until the sort has integrated in and add much foodstuff if needful.  Occur with the red.

To decorate

1. Rove out the red fondant using some powdered sugar for dusting.  Cut a direct out and lay it over a mini dish (remember to mix and equalise the emblem, so red sponge = naif buttercream and designer freezing). Using your keeping, influence the fondant around the block (I didn't roll the fondant on the lowermost of the cakes).  Occur until all cakes are snowy
2. To puddle the bows, cut longitudinal weaken strips of fondant.  Eff two strips and transverse over the top of a dish and count on to close, or you can use a gum.  Require added disinvest and sicken each end and loop towards the intermediate of the take and force unitedly. Fit on the middle of the fondant affliction!