{"id":20741,"date":"2015-12-19T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20741"},"modified":"2015-12-19T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T18:42:38","slug":"santa-christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/santa-christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Christmas Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Santa Christmas Cake is ready.<\/p>\n<p>Anna&#8217;s been busy playing in the band recently, concerts here, concerts there and various fund-raising sessions at Morrisons, so whilst she was out playing a concert to the Llanafan WI on what was a very wet Saturday afternoon, Morgan and I set about decorating our Christmas cake. I had already baked them weeks ago and had been feeding them with brandy ever since. Last weekend I covered them in marzipan and iced the first of the cakes with chocolate icing. The larger round cake was then left until this weekend when\u00a0we had time to turn it into a proper Santa Christmas Cake.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20741 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake-200x133.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Chocolate Christmas Cake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chocolate-Christmas-Cake.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20742'>\n\t\t\t\tChocolate Christmas Cake\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned-200x133.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"marzipanned and ready for decorating\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/marzipanned.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20743'>\n\t\t\t\tmarzipanned and ready for decorating\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Band.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Band-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Anna playing in the band\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Band-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Band-639x480.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Band.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20749'>\n\t\t\t\tAnna playing in the band\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Santa Christmas Cake<\/h2>\n<p>Morgan and I spent about 2 hours covering it with white icing, making little bricks to build a chimney, making a Santa figure who is stuck in the chimney, adding arms, cuffs, hands, a beard and funky moustache and then his hat. It was then finished off with snow, snowflakes and a nice bow around the bottom. Morgan quite enjoyed it and the final result is pretty good too. \u00a0We hope you like our Santa Christmas Cake.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-20741 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/icing-the-cake.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/icing-the-cake-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Icing the cake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-20744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/icing-the-cake-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/icing-the-cake-639x480.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/icing-the-cake.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-20744'>\n\t\t\t\tIcing the cake\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Making-santas-hands.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Making-santas-hands-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Making santas hands\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-20745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Making-santas-hands-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Making-santas-hands-639x480.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Making-santas-hands.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-20745'>\n\t\t\t\tMaking santas hands\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Modelling\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-20746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Modelling.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-20746'>\n\t\t\t\tModelling\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake-200x133.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Santa Christmas Cake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-20747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Santa-Christmas-Cake.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-20747'>\n\t\t\t\t2015\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As well as decorating the cake we did some stop motion photography too, so as a festive treat here&#8217;s our Santa Christmas Cake in the making.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TyB77FbQtMY\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s just up to me to eat them both &#8211; Although with that amount of icing on top, I think I&#8217;ll let someone else eat Santa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Santa Christmas Cake is ready. 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