Christmas Cake Decorating Ideas

OK, we’re midway through the weigh gain season now. It all started with Halloween. If you’re like me, you started making Halloween cakes on like October 1st! So many cute ideas – so little time.

Then came Thanksgiving – turkey cakes, cornucopias, fall leaves, you name it – you made (and ate!) it.

Now it’s December, so you’ve got a whole new month to make awesome cakes. (Hey, the diet can resume in January!)

Here are a few cake decorating ideas you might like:

• Christmas trees
• Candles
• Presents – with bows, glitter, the works
• ‘Glass’ balls
• Santa and his reindeer
• Wreaths
• Winter scenes
• A sleigh
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Traditional white icing with candied fruits and decorations
• Mistletoe
• Snowflakes
• Yule logs
• Christmas stockings


Got other great ideas for Christmas cake designs? ‘Tis the season to share!

Easy Halloween Cake Decorating Ideas

Cake decorating at Halloween is the best. One reason is that it’s supposed to look scary, so if you goof, you can just say it’s all part of the creepiness of the theme! But there are also so many great ideas to try that you might spend all of October making cakes. That’s why I wanted to be sure you’d have these ideas early in the month.

Also, if you’ve got a birthday, anniversary, homecoming, or wedding you need to do a cake for in October, Halloween is a ready-made theme, which makes it really easy to come up with a creative cake design.

Pretty much anything dark and mysterious will work. Even obvious ideas are a huge hit. You could try:

• skeletons
• ghosts
• Frankenstein monsters
• bats
• owls
• pumpkins
• black cats
• grave stones
• haunted house or castle
• spiders
• witches
• the Grim Reaper
• a scary-looking hand

What other Halloween cakes have you made? We’d love to see! Leave a comment with a link so we can share some inspiration.