A Belated Merry Christmas

I made some Christmas cookies for family this year!
A week after our wedding, and I was experiencing decorating withdrawal, so I thought I'd make these cookies. Kind of sad really...not the cookies, the withdrawal.
When icing the trees, I did try "flooding" for the first time. It's so much neater than slapping a bit of icing on, and hoping for the best. When decorating cookies in the future, I will definitely be using this technique.
The Santa's were iced with marshmallow fondant and further decorated with royal icing.
Anyway, (a belated) Merry Christmas from me.

My Wedding Cake

When I first started this blog back in September, I mentioned that I was getting married and that I was going to make my own Wedding Cake. Well I did it.

What an epic adventure it was...baking, torting (cutting into layers), filling, ganache, icing, piping, roses and the assembly. It took me weeks to make this thing.

Here some pics of the journey:

Not only did I end up with a cake that I was proud of, I also learned a lot in the process of making it. Do not expect perfection on your 1st attempt. These things take practice. If you want a level cake then each tier needs to be level. Something I didn't really consider...note, one of the tiers in the pictures above is not flat, so my cake had a bit of a lean...I am actually not bad at this, and in time could actually be really, really good!