Icing your Christmas cake is fun and a great way to get yourself in the Christmas spirit. You can keep it simple or go full-on-festive – the hardest thing is deciding how you want to do it. With a bit ...

We all know icing is the perfect finishing touch to a great cake. “The phrase ‘icing on the cake’ refers to making something that is already good even better — that’s what icing does,” says Elizabeth ...

If you make this cake well in advance and plan to store it, you’ll need to “feed” it with extra rum every week or so. Unwrap the cake, drizzle rum over the top, wrap it up again and re-seal in its ...

Mary’s light fruit cake is covered with marzipan and fondant icing to look like a tennis court, but you can easily adapt it to your sport of choice. A great birthday cake for sports fans! You will ...

Long snubbed by serious pastry chefs, the most malleable of icings is making a comeback. Fondant and marzipan fruit top vanilla sponge- and chocolate blackout cakes created for T by Sarah Hardy, the ...

This Christmas recipe makes a moist cake that keeps very well. It can be made months ahead, or if you are frenetically busy it will still be delish even if made just a few days before Christmas – ...