Cake Craft & Decoration Magazine. December 2011

Guest Of The Month Robert Haynes has a challenge for you this month with incredibly lifelike tall Amaryllis, arranged here with Beargrass and Cordyline foliage.

Glistening Winter Wedding Turn up the heat with this sizzling red, heart shaped wedding cake. Ruth Wyld shows how to make a single tier wedding cake look so much more and adds a spray of chrysanthemums, gold gilded leaves and fir cones.

Floral Inspirations - A Tasty Christmas Candle Cake Complete with poinsettia from Carol Haycox, who provides an edible twist on the traditional table centrepiece for a very easy to make cake for this busy time of the year.

Reader Offer We have a special offer of Ann Pickard’s Books and DVD’s for our readers.

Getting More From Your Equipment - Round Cutters Bev Hilton has dozens of uses for the humble round pastry cutter for you including a Christmas cake with drapes, a seasonal flower spray, and huge fun face pops.

Winter’s Wedding Cake Exquisite open roses and a flurry of frosty snowflakes, all go to create a magical wedding cake made especially for us by Sharon Essop.

Simply Modelling - Christmas Chaos Baking can sometimes be chaotic as shown here by Jane Barraclough. The cake maker has obviously been under Christmas stress but she did get her Christmas cake made. This can easily be adapted to suit other times of the year.

Santa Baby Peter Roberts gives us a seasonal twist on the humble cupcake, with parcels, reindeers, Christmas puds, penguins and snowmen. His towering edifice is topped off with a giant Santa Cupcake, to give you all kinds of cake options this year.

Cool Yule Cute characters spell out this seasonal greeting on Marion Frost’s quick and easy Christmas cake, which can easily be divided into quarters without spoiling the design so all the family can take a piece home to enjoy.

Baby’s First Christmas Leanne Tang has designed a two tier cake with the baby in the midst of all her new Christmas toys and presents.

Cake Boutique - Calender Swirls A new cake idea from Cakeboards, an advent calendar Christmas cake and matching cupcakes, all in cool colours of white, sky blue and silver.

Home Baking Valerie Hedgethorne bakes Christmas Party Food for you this month with Christmas tree vol au vents, Christmas pud cupcakes, an exotic fruit meringue gateau, and raspberry filled waffle flowers.