I've decided that next weekend is Christmas Cake (+pudding + mincemeat)
making time.  I know, it's a bit late, but it's the first chance I've
had!

The cake I've had most success with over the past few years is Mary
Berry's celebration cake (with some extra added ingredients here and
there - it seems quite failsafe no matter what I do to it!)

And I was thinking of doing one of the Sainsburys mag's chocolate +
cranberry jobs on Christmas eve, too.  (It is a "eat straight away" I
think).

Anyone got any others they'd like to offer up?  How about decorations?
I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes (have had several
bad experiences - starting but not limited to the first one I ever tried
as a teenager that ended up painted bright green and red!)

I did make a lovely looking gingerbread house 6 years ago, so I'm not
entirely without decorating skills, they just don't seem to work on
cakes for some reason.  (And as it happened, the gingerbread house
didn't get eaten as it turned more into a decoration than a food item!)

On 2009-11-02 13:41:50 +0000,  said:

> I've decided that next weekend is Christmas Cake (+pudding + mincemeat)
> making time.  I know, it's a bit late, but it's the first chance I've
> had!
> 
> The cake I've had most success with over the past few years is Mary
> Berry's celebration cake (with some extra added ingredients here and
> there - it seems quite failsafe no matter what I do to it!)
> 
> And I was thinking of doing one of the Sainsburys mag's chocolate +
> cranberry jobs on Christmas eve, too.  (It is a "eat straight away" I
> think).
> 
> Anyone got any others they'd like to offer up?  How about decorations?
> I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes (have had several
> bad experiences - starting but not limited to the first one I ever tried
> as a teenager that ended up painted bright green and red!)
> 
> I did make a lovely looking gingerbread house 6 years ago, so I'm not
> entirely without decorating skills, they just don't seem to work on
> cakes for some reason.  (And as it happened, the gingerbread house
> didn't get eaten as it turned more into a decoration than a food item!)

I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea 
room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this 
page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that 
'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html
-- 
Sacha

> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea 
> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this 
> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that 
> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

Wow! A work of art. 

-- 
Tim C.

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from  contains these words:

> I've decided that next weekend is Christmas Cake (+pudding + mincemeat)
> making time.  I know, it's a bit late, but it's the first chance I've
> had!

> The cake I've had most success with over the past few years is Mary
> Berry's celebration cake (with some extra added ingredients here and
> there - it seems quite failsafe no matter what I do to it!)

> And I was thinking of doing one of the Sainsburys mag's chocolate +
> cranberry jobs on Christmas eve, too.  (It is a "eat straight away" I
> think).

> Anyone got any others they'd like to offer up?  How about decorations?
> I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes (have had several
> bad experiences - starting but not limited to the first one I ever tried
> as a teenager that ended up painted bright green and red!)

   My xmas cake decoration, is  a set of glass ornaments , probably made
in Poland? 
There are 20 or so , each one is a trio of  3 green glass holly leaves
with red glass berries.
Very pretty  on a cake simply  iced in plain white and the decs pressed
on before it sets hard.
After used they get washed and out away for  next year.

    Janet

Sacha  wrote:
> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea 
> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this 
> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that 
> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

That's pretty.  My aunt tried to explain to me how to make frilly icing,
but I've completely forgotten what she said now.  :-/  I suspect I
probably need a practical demonstration!

Sacha  said:

>
> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our
> tea room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at
> this page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all
> that 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

Wow, that's good!

I used to just marzipan and ice the top, and do some very simple design, a 
candle or a tree shape.  Or if totally pushed for time, stick in a few 
ornaments.  These days my daughter does it, she is very good, but I don't 
know if she is as good as that!


-- 
kat
   >^..^<

"Sacha"  ha scritto nel messaggio cky@dinky.vm.bytemark.co.uk> said:
>

  How about decorations?
>> I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes
> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea > 
> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this page 
> and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that  'ribbon' 
> round the edge is icing!

Stupendous!  I loved it.

On 2009-11-02 14:56:45 +0000,  said:

> Sacha  wrote:
>> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea
>> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this
>> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that
>> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
>> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html
> 
> That's pretty.  My aunt tried to explain to me how to make frilly icing,
> but I've completely forgotten what she said now.  :-/  I suspect I
> probably need a practical demonstration!

Joanna makes all of it by hand, including all those lovely flowers etc. 
 She learned flower arranging so that she could learn how to make the 
flowers look natural!  That's dedication.  It would drive me mad but 
she loves it and does it as a hobby as much as anything else.
-- 
Sacha

On 2009-11-02 16:58:24 +0000, "Giusi"  said:

> 
> "Sacha"  ha scritto nel messaggio cky@dinky.vm.bytemark.co.uk> said:
>> 
> 
>   How about decorations?
>>> I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes
>> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea >
>> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this page
>> and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that  'ribbon'
>> round the edge is icing!
> 
> Stupendous!  I loved it.

I love that night time village - it's very appropriate for this area.
-- 
Sacha

Following up to Sacha 

> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

very nice BTW IMHO the last two staff should do their photos with a longer
focal length lens (say 100mm). You probably didnt want to know that - even
if its right, which it probably isnt.
-- 
Mike... .  .   .    .  
Spanish food "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk/espania.htm"
remove clothing to email

Sacha wrote:
> On 2009-11-02 13:41:50 +0000,  said:
> 
>> I've decided that next weekend is Christmas Cake (+pudding + mincemeat)
>> making time.  I know, it's a bit late, but it's the first chance I've
>> had!
>>
>> The cake I've had most success with over the past few years is Mary
>> Berry's celebration cake (with some extra added ingredients here and
>> there - it seems quite failsafe no matter what I do to it!)
>>
>> And I was thinking of doing one of the Sainsburys mag's chocolate +
>> cranberry jobs on Christmas eve, too.  (It is a "eat straight away" I
>> think).
>>
>> Anyone got any others they'd like to offer up?  How about decorations?
>> I'm remarkably bad at decorating my Christmas cakes (have had several
>> bad experiences - starting but not limited to the first one I ever tried
>> as a teenager that ended up painted bright green and red!)
>>
>> I did make a lovely looking gingerbread house 6 years ago, so I'm not
>> entirely without decorating skills, they just don't seem to work on
>> cakes for some reason.  (And as it happened, the gingerbread house
>> didn't get eaten as it turned more into a decoration than a food item!)
> 
> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea 
> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this 
> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that 
> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

I can't access it at the moment, but BT has been very flaky recently.

Dave

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000, Sacha  wrote:
>
>I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea 
>room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this 
>page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that 
>'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
>http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html

So pretty!  I wish I could click on the pictures to enlarge them and
see the details better.

:)


-- 
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Sacha wrote:

> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our
> tea room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at
> this page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all
> that 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
> http://www.hillhousenurse


FUCK OFF AND DIE SPAMMER

On 2009-11-03 03:33:25 +0000, sf   said:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000, Sacha  wrote:
>> 
>> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea
>> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this
>> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that
>> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
>> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html
> 
> So pretty!  I wish I could click on the pictures to enlarge them and
> see the details better.
> 
> :)

Groan!  Another job for the future......
-- 
Sacha

> Sacha

Thanks for posting that Sacha...that is truly lovely! Make sure and tell her 
a bunch of hardore foodies were admiring her work so!

felangey wrote:

> > Sacha
> 
> Thanks for posting that Sacha...that is truly lovely! Make sure and
> tell her a bunch of hardore foodies were admiring her work so!

	IT WAS AN ADVERT FOR HER WANK TEAROOMS YOU STUPID CUNT

		THE FUCKING SPAMMING BITCH!

On 2009-11-03 16:25:58 +0000, "felangey"  said:

>> Sacha
> 
> Thanks for posting that Sacha...that is truly lovely! Make sure and tell her
> a bunch of hardore foodies were admiring her work so!

Thank you and I will.  I probably won't see her until next spring now 
but I will certainly pass that on.  She's very clever and this work she 
does has nothing to do with us - we just show pics of it so that others 
can order from her if they want to.
-- 
Sacha

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:22:46 +0000, Sacha  wrote:

>On 2009-11-03 03:33:25 +0000, sf   said:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000, Sacha  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea
>>> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this
>>> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that
>>> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
>>> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html
>> 
>> So pretty!  I wish I could click on the pictures to enlarge them and
>> see the details better.
>> 
>> :)
>
>Groan!  Another job for the future......

A woman's work....  :)  Sorry!

-- 
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On 2009-11-04 16:52:10 +0000, sf   said:

> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:22:46 +0000, Sacha  wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-11-03 03:33:25 +0000, sf   said:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000, Sacha  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I hope I'm allowed to boast about the cake decorating of one of our tea
>>>> room staff, because it's nothing to do with me:  Take a look at this
>>>> page and one of her Christmas cakes is on the right and yes, all that
>>>> 'ribbon' round the edge is icing!
>>>> http://www.hillhousenursery.com/tearoom.html
>>> 
>>> So pretty!  I wish I could click on the pictures to enlarge them and
>>> see the details better.
>>> 
>>> :)
>> 
>> Groan!  Another job for the future......
> 
> A woman's work....  :)  Sorry!

I'm workiing on it - it's part of my 'winter work'.  ;-)
-- 
Sacha