ROCKIN’ RESIN
Why buy Christmas ornaments when you can make them? These resin decos are easy to craft using festive silicone moulds and will look amazing on your tree, be it the traditional type or something less conventional, as here. They also make great gifts, trims for pressies and even table napkins.
Instructions on page 34
CHEAT’S FRUIT CAKE
Team a storebought cake with ready-to-roll icing, using warm rum and jam to add more flavour. The baubles are made from green-tinted icing. Easy!
Recipe on page 30
HONEY AND VANILLA BISCUIT SANDWICHES
Make cute Chrissie cookies, join with luscious buttercream and finish with royal icing. These bauble bakes are definitely for devouring, not decorating!
CHEAT’S FRUIT CAKE
Preparation time 20 mins plus overnight setting
Cooking time nil
Serves 12
600g packet ready-to-roll white icing
Green food colouring
20cm round storebought fruit cake (or Choc-orange fruit cake, see recipe below)
¼ cup dark rum
¼ cup apricot jam, warmed
Gold and silver cachous and ribbon, to decorate
STEP 1 Divide white icing into quarters. Tint 1 portion pale green, 1 mid green and 1 dark green. Leave 1 portion untinted and cover with plastic wrap to prevent it drying out.
STEP 2 Using about 2 tablespoons of pale green icing at a time, press into 2 holes of a 6-hole bauble mould. Repeat for mid- and dark-green icing. Stand for 1 hour, then unmould. Sit at room temperature, uncovered, to dry for 6 hours or overnight.
STEP 3 Put cake on a serving board and poke holes one-third of the way into the cake all over. Place rum in a microwave-safe jug and heat in microwave on HIGH (100%) for 15-30 seconds. Brush warm rum over cake.
STEP 4 Roll out
