Gingerbread is a traditional favourite at Christmas, so we love this alternative Christmas cake design of a cookie jar, decorated with freshly baked gingerbread cookies. Our ‘cookies’ have in fact been made using sugarpaste, but you can choose whether to do the same or alternatively bake real gingerbread cookies.

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Edibles

Tall 7 inch round cake (we used 1kg Sattina golden delight Madeira cake mix baked in 3 layers)

Sattina sugarpaste in golden brown, white, true red, bottle green and dove grey

Sattina vanilla frosting

Icing sugar, for dusting

Caramel/ivory paste food colouring

Spectrum flow shell and shine varnish

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This design shows how versatile using just one mould can be, offering a range of different flowers and foliage. We particularly like the effect achieved from brushing the mould with sparkling sugar before pressing sugarpaste into it as it gives a very seasonal frosty look.

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We used

Edibles:

9 inch round rich fruit cake, made from 1.75kg rich fruit cake mix

Sattina marzipan

Sattina white sugarpaste

Sattina sugarpaste in golden brown, bottle green, true red

Rejuvenator spirit

Blossom tint in nutkin white, black and white

Edible glue

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