Christmas Cracker Cakes
Christmas Cracker Cakes are festive sponge cakes decorated to resemble holiday crackers, wrapped in colorful icing and tied with strawberry laces. Topped with small stars and chocolate sweets, they make a delightful and tasty addition to any holiday celebration.
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 4 oz butter
- 40 oz caster sugar
- 4 oz self raising flour
- 2 medium eggs
- chocolate drops
For the Decoration:
- red white, and green ready to roll icing
- Strawberry laces
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients together, add the chocolate drops last .
- Then bake in an oven set to 180 degrees C / gas mark 4 for about 20-25 minutes
- Leave to cool and cut into long rectangular pieces.
- Roll icing into a rectangle big enough to wrap around the cake.
- Pinch the ends and then tie the strawberry laces around.
- Cut the white icing into small stars and stick on the top of the cracker with some icing.
- Add a small chocolate or mini cake topper to the middle of the star.
Notes
- We made two sets, one with green and one with red icing. I was really pleased with how these turned out. They looked lovely in the box with a bit of tissue paper.