Beginning to look a lot like Christmas? It’s the perfect time to bake the cakes and let the delicious baking aroma fill up your homes. Therefore, to help you spread the holiday cheer, we have listed our top 17 colourful Christmas cakes.
You need the right mix of colours, decor and techniques to come up with a cheerful Christmas cake. With the right cake by your side, your guests will be delighted and you could feel the sweetness in the air. After reading this list, you will be full of ideas, we’d say pick the one that will complement the other dishes at your Christmas parties. Naughty or nice, everyone gets a slice.
Santa Toppers
Elevate any brown or chocolatey cake presentation with Christmas Santa toppers. They instantly put you in a holly jolly mood eventhough they are not edible. And by adding anything edible in red like strawberries, your cake will be exuding a great deal of holiday energy. Also, berries make anything taste better, especially if your cake has chocolate.
Snowman Cake
You can count on royal icing when it comes to snowman Christmas cakes. Frosty cakes are popular yet they are very underrated. This is a great addition to your soirees especially if the theme has white Christmas in it. Did you know you could add coconut powder or flakes to bring that snow effect on the cake?
Mini Santa Cake
Curating a special kiddies spread during the festivities? This mini Santa Christmas is for the little ones. You could use smooth buttercream here to decorate this easy cake. You can also sprinke some edible glitter all over the cake to make it look more special. And the nose could also be replaced with a fresh cherry or fondant icing is just fine.
Floral Christmas Wreath
This is one of the easiest colourful Christmas cakes on the list so far! Use a wide range of colours that represent both spring and autumn and the cake will be too stunning to be relished. While, this shape is very simple, it resembles the Christmas Wreath and that works in your favour. Doesn’t it?
Christmas Wonderland Cake
Any white chocolate admirers here? Here is a chocolate winter wonderland cake dressed with white chocolate flakes along with stokes of dark chocolate to create the finishing details. Again, make best use of toppers like Christmas tree and reindeers.
Gingerbread with Wreath Toppings
This is a customary Christmas dessert. Therefore, make it magical with a delicous layer of wreath-like toppings. To make this more droolworthy, add generous portions of buttercream in between the fluffy layers.
Frosty Yule Log
Are you that person who dislikes the reds and greens on yule log? It’s okay, we are not judging! An alternative for you is to place chocolate-based Christmas trees on the desserts. And sprinkle soem icing sugar for the snowing effect. Minimum effort; maximum impact.
Pastel Cake
One effortless way to make colourful Christmas cakes is by turning your frosty cake into pastel colours. And to heighten the fun in each bite, add a bit of prosecco to the ingredient list! So, that will entertain your tastebuds with a delicate boozy flavour.
Emerald & Golden Bows
Into colourful Christmas cakes but in a muted and elegant way? Emerald green with gold accents is a great idea. Frost the cake with cookie cream icing as you could easily create a golden effect with it. And decorate the cake border with green royal icing. Also, deck up the cake with Christmassy sugar balls, edible glitter and a golden bow.
Snowy Cake
Start with a smart choice of frosting colour like peachy pink. And top it off with green Christmas icing and loads of snowy effects. Finally, complete the cake with a sweet Christmas message.
Strawberry and Cream Sponge Cake
Here’s an utterly delicious cake that can be made without any butter and still steal the spotlight during the Christmas lunch. The taste of the luscious ingredients in this delicacy along with its dreamy presentation is blessing.
Christmas Lights Cake
This is a genius cake trick. Once you cake is completed, all you need to do is some neat buttercream piping work across the cake. The little lights can be recreated with pastel icing shades or even skittles.
Dripping White Chocolate Cake
For those obsessing with an ethereal and chic aesthetic, this cake is literally goals! It’s too stunning that anyone wouldn’t want to eat it! Having said that, it’s a delightful treat.This is an eggnog sponge cake with nutmeg-rum buttercream icing. And white chocolate is used to craft the dripping icing treatment.
Snow Globe Cake
If you are considering to call this soothing gingerbread cake a masterpiece, go ahead! It’s known as Dulce de Leche, expect every bite to be soft and full of rich, spicy and sweet caramel flavours. So, to recreate the stars, use a gold lustre spray. And the snowglobe can be crafted using gelatin.
Rudolf’s Cheesecake
Turn your soft New York Cheesecake into an adorable Rudolf face within seconds. All you need is a few chocolate piping and a wrapped chocolate ball for the nose.
Hearty Red Velvet Cake
The season is definitely filled with love so it’s best to celebrate with a radiant velvet cake. Then, for an irresistable slice, aim to make the crumb velvety soft, lightly sweet, and moist! And decorate the cake using with the whipped cream cream cheese frosting.
Sweater Weather Cake
If the entire family is wearing matching jammies and sweaters, how about getting your colourful Christmas cakes also in the same mood? All you need to do is whip up a spiced gingerbread cake and deocrate in the same sweater pattern as yours. Side note, cookie butter buttercream works as a great for frosting.
