Saturday, December 26, 2009

Christmas Bakes

Fruitcake,Fondant,Christmas

My Christmas bakes started quite late this year.

Normally, for the fruitcake, I would soak the dried fruits in the first week of November and then bake it in the second. I will then let the fruitcake mature slowly and lovingly brush them with liquor every few days apart till decorating them near Christmas. This year however, I had about ten days in all to soak, bake and mature the cake

I made four 7cm round cakes in all. Two were covered and decorated with fondant. One was decorated simply with dried fruits. And the last.......it is still wrapped in clingwrap and brown paper to mature further.

Sleeping Santa ~ Well, Santa has lots of work to be done on Christmas Eve distributing Christmas pressies to all the kids and of course to you and me. So he really needed to sleep well to have enough energy to run around town.
Fruitcake,Christmas,Fondant

Another Sleeping Santa ~ Sorry for the blurry photo. I have a fantastic Nikon D90. Unfortunatly, I have yet to master how to take good pictures with it. Sigh!
Fruitcake,Christmas,Fondant

The Plain Jane
Fruitcake,Christmas

I also made some Gingerbread Men, Hearts and Stars for my colleagues and their kids. They were decorated simply with sprinkles and mini M&Ms.
Cookies,Christmas
Cookies,Christmas
Cookies,Christmas

8 comments:

Cuen said...

Hi Ginny, Merry Christmas to you! The fruitcake look delicious. Hadn't ate any this year yet, looks tempting.

Wanna take this chance to thank you for being so generous in sharing your recipes and knowledge. I had successfully completed my daughter's birthday cake. Thanks. Have a great year ahead!

Rusti said...

Hi Cuen
A Belated Merry Christmas to you too. It is no problem to share what I know although I really do know very little. Congrats on birthday cake. I am sure your little girl must be thrilled with your creation.
Ginny

Alannia said...

Hi Ginny,

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you and your family.

Just came over to your blog to see what you have been up to and my, my...what lovely fruitcakes. Made me drool....

Is it possible for you to share the recipe? I am still trying to find a good fruitcake recipe.

Thanks.
Alannia

Anonymous said...

hi
may i know where do you get your gingerbreadman cutter?

Rusti said...

Hi Alannia
Could you send me your email address.

Hi Anonymous
My copper cutter is from the US. My brother bought it for me a couple of years back.

Ginny

Anonymous said...

Hi Rusti,

May i hv ur fruit cake ginger bread recipe 2? thks so much and happy new yr =)

tlx05@yahoo.com

lyn

Alannia said...

Hi Ginny,

My email add. is pl_leong[at]yahoo.com

Thanks.

Aiye said...

Lovely Ginger Bread!! Yummy!!