Thinking of Christmas..…cake

I am currently planning my first ever Christmas cake. I have never really made any kind of fruit cake before as I don’t like it, but if any occasion requires a fruit cake, it’s Christmas! I know I need to get cracking and start soaking my fruit, I’m sure I’m probably way behind the experienced baker's schedule for Christmas, but I’m sure it’ll be fine.The trouble is I get so lost in the creative side, deciding how the cake will look and be decorated that I keep forgetting that I need to make the cake first!!

I decided quite early on that I didn’t want to make just an ordinary Christmas cake decorated with holly or bells, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I like to give myself a challenge!!

I was out shopping the other day and I came across some miniature house moulds, they are really sweet and it suddenly came to me, I am going to make (or at least attempt) a Christmas Village!

There will be a main house in the middle which I’m thinking will be fruit cake with a roof made of chocolate cake and the mini houses around the outside will be vanilla sponge. That way there is a bit of something for everyone! I am most excited about putting all the little details together like making some snow men and Christmas trees to decorate the village with.  If I’m honest I think I’m using this opportunity to play houses with cake! I’m not sure that the finished project will even resemble the masterpiece I have created in my head but I’ll have fun trying! J