. . . decorated with Winter Blizzard Sprinkles by Sattina
This frosty piped Christmas tree cake is a modern alternative to the traditional rich fruit Christmas recipe, and can be piped straight onto a cake covered in sugarpaste or just a layer of buttercream or frosting. When making a taller than usual cake, use a firm textured cake instead of a Victoria sponge which is too light in texture. We used 1kg of Sattina golden delight Madeira cake mix and baked it in three layers using a 7” round tin. It makes a deliciously moist cake and is easy to use as you simply add water, mix and bake. We layered it with jam and Sattina vanilla frosting and covered the cake in Sattina pretty lilac sugarpaste ready for decorating.
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You will need:
Edibles
Sattina Vanilla frosting, 700g tub
Sattina ‘Winter Blizzard’ sprinkles, 90g tub
Wilton Sky Blue paste food colouring
Sattina Golden Delight Madeira cake mix, 1kg box
Sattina Pretty Lilac sugarpaste, 2 x 500g tubs
Sugarflair Light Silver Powder Puff edible glitter non-aerosol spray
Equipment
10” round white Masonite cake board
FMM Star cutters, set of 4
Wilton 12” disposable piping bags
Wilton piping tube 1M
Wilton piping tube No 4B
Wilton piping tube No 18
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Let’s Get Started!
Step 1. Marking The Tree
While the sugarpaste is still soft, use a side scraper or palette knife to mark each side of the tree in the icing so that you have a clear guide to help you pipe a neat shape. You will need to use three piping tubes – the Wilton 1M, No 4B and No 18 but any three star tubes will work as long as they are varying in size.
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Step 2. Piping The Tree
Colour the frosting a pretty icy blue using the Wilton sky blue paste colouring and start piping with the largest tube, the 1M. Snip off the bottom of a disposable piping bag, drop the 1M tube in and fill half way with the coloured frosting. To pipe the swirls, twist the top half of the bag to close it tightly, touch the tube onto the side of the cake and apply pressure starting the swirl in the middle then out and around. Stop applying any pressure before pulling away. Repeat this process piping approximately 7-8 swirls within the guidelines.
Move onto the two smaller piping tubes No 4B and No 18 and instead of piping swirls pipe two different sized stars so that you create a fully piped tree shape. To pipe a star, touch the cake then apply pressure to create a star shape then stop applying pressure before you pull away.
Handy Tip
Practise first, initially piping the swirls and stars on your work top and remember – the more pressure you apply, the larger the star. Also, to fill the last few gaps it does not matter if you pipe over the edge of a swirl or another star.
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Step 3. Adding a Winter Blizzard Effect
Adding the sprinkles must be done as soon as you have finished piping so the frosting is still tacky. Rest the cake on something so the front leans back slightly, enabling you to scatter over the ‘Winter Blizzard’ sprinkles. Some will fall off but just keep going until you are happy with the final look. Remember you can carefully position larger ones and the small icing snowflakes with your fingers or tweezers.
Handy Hint
Fold a large sheet of greaseproof in half to make a crease then open it up and lay out on your worktop under the cake. This will catch any sprinkles which fall off onto your worktop and the crease will help you pour them back into the pot to save wasting them.
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Step 4. Piping The Top
Pipe a ring of swirls around the top edge of the cake with the Wilton 1M tube then add piped stars in and around the swirls using the Wilton No 4B and No18 piping tubes. While freshly piped, scatter over the ‘Winter Blizzard’ sprinkles, once again carefully positioning some of the larger ones and snowflakes by hand.
.Finishing Touches
To give this cake a frosty finish, spritz over with edible glitter using the Sugarflair light silver powder puff edible glitter spray which comes in a non-aerosol container. If you want to add a star on top of the tree roll out a little sugarpaste, cut out a star shape then leave to dry overnight. We have popped a white star on our tree, but you could use the lilac sugarpaste and spray with the silver edible glitter and it would look just as good!
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Why not take a look at our fabulous range of Sattina cake sprinkles and get creative in the kitchen! We would love to see what you have all been up to so please don’t forget to share your cakes and bakes with us on social media!
Happy Baking!
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