21 decorating ideas for your homemade Christmas cake

This easy, stylish decoration is quick to achieve, and you can adapt the sugarpaste colour and sprinkles to your taste. Once iced, the decorating takes just minutes.

Recipe: Midnight Lights

Have fun moulding these chilly-weather creatures with their messy box of lights. You don’t have to make all the elements, just pick your favourites and let the scene unfold.

Recipe: Untangle the lights!

Complete with cute sleeping robbins, this Christmas cake looks impressive but is easy to make with our step-by-step instructions.

Recipe: Frosty Robin Cake

This year’s Christmas cake takes its cue from a magical snowy mountain scene. Follow our easy step-by-step guide and impress family and friends with this pretty Alpine cake, complete with miniature gingerbread houses.

Recipe: Alpine Christmas Cake Decoration

Make your Christmas cake look like its been hit by a chilly blizzard with marbled marzipan icing and sparkling frozen snowflakes

Recipe: Christmas Cake with 'Frosticle' Icing

Fun to make and easy to adapt. Make sure to use royal icing sugar as it sets firmer and is easier to pipe than regular icing sugar.

Recipe: Magical Forest Christmas Cake Decoration

Our wintry decorations can be easily adapted to make the scene of your dreams.

Recipe: Silent night Christmas cake

Make these Christmas cake decorations as complex or simple as you fancy - that's the beauty of a snowflake, no two are ever the same!

Recipe: Snowstorm cake

A simple and elegant way to decorate your Christmas cake - we've even added our amaretti biscuits for extra festive flair and flavour.

Recipe: Pinecone Wreath Christmas Cake

Keep it simple with cute pre-made gingerbread men on top of this ginger latte traybake. A great family-friendly bake for little ones to get involved with.

Recipe: Gingerbread latte loaf cake

This timeless design is easy to adapt to your own style; use silver spray or different shaped cutters, if you like.

Recipe: Simple iced Christmas cake

This versatile wreath decoration can be lifted off the cake and used time and time again.

Recipe: Golden wreath

With a delicate dusting of gold, this cake is simple, elegant and great for gifting friends this festive season.

Recipe: Iced Christmas cake

Using ready-dyed icing makes this striking decoration really quick and easy to do. Or follow our simple instructions to mix the exact colour you want.

Recipe: Snowflake sensation

Moulding your own Christmas characters is much easier than you might think, and kids will love to get involved.

Recipe: Penguins and a polar bear

This stunning cake makes an impressive centrepiece. A perfect activity for a cold Winter’s day!

Recipe: Frozen Christmas tree cake

A classic for a season, we've kept the decor sophisticated with detailed pleated marzipan and glitter baubles.

Recipe: Simple Christmas cake

It evokes such feelings of warmth and satisfaction when humble ingredients like dried fruit and spices are transformed into the perfect Christmas cake.

Recipe: Step by Step Christmas Cake

Adorn a smart white Christmas cake with delicate mint icicles - this show-stopping decoration is easier to achieve than it appears.

Recipe: Winter Wonderland Christmas Cake

This Christmas cake recipe will be the grand finale of your Christmas day.

Recipe: Easy-to-Decorate Classic Christmas Cake