32 Jolly good christmas cake ideas

This simple but stunning Christmas cake design incorporates snowflakes strewn with silver sugar pearls to make an eye-catching design that makes this cake the perfect centrepiece for Christmas day.

This incredibly detailed video tutorial shows you how to create a striking red star Christmas tree on a smooth fondant icing base.

Fancy decorating your Christmas cake to look like a big Christmas gift? Follow this tutorial on how to create a traditional Christmas bow for your Christmas cake.

This step-by-step video tutorial guides you through how to make and decorate a Christmas drip cake, which is a great modern twist on a classic Christmas cake design.

This cute pink ugly sweater cake draped in Christmas lights (made from gumballs!) will look perfect as the centrepiece to your ugly Christmas sweater party. Follow the tutorial to make this fun holiday cake with a basic 9x13 pan.

Love an Ugly Christmas sweater? Why not create a Christmas cake design inspired by one? Follow this step-by-step tutorial to create your own version of this brilliant Ugly Christmas sweater Christmas cake.

This wonderful polar bear design uses desiccated coconut and icing to create a truly standout Christmas cake that will have kids and adults alike utterly delighted.

What child wouldn't love this gorgeous reindeer Christmas cake? This is another idea for a chocolate Christmas cake, perfect for those who don't like traditional Christmas cake.

I just love this! Watch the tutorial and then try and recreate this 3D Christmas tree cake that has candy cane-coloured icing running through it, like the rings of a tree trunk.

This is the most amazingly detailed tutorial on how to create a snowman topper for an icicle-decorated Christmas cake.

Take inspiration from this alternative Christmas cake colour scheme of blue and white made with candied pretzels to come up with your own design.

This Christmas tree cake is literally made in the shape of a Christmas tree. It is made using a 9″x13″ pan, doesn’t require any special tools, and has an airy orange (or vanilla or almond) cake base with cream cheese frosting. It can be made with all-purpose, white whole wheat or gluten-free flour.

This really easy-to-follow video tutorial shows you how to create robin cake toppers fit for adorning a Christmas cake.

This Christmas Tree cake is made up of individual cupcakes, it's such a clever alternative idea to creating a traditional Christmas cake. You could even give the kids the opportunity to decorate the cupcakes.

Christmas isn't Christmas without a unicorn!! So, here's a wonderfully easy-to-follow tutorial that guides you through making a peppermint unicorn Christmas cake.

This is a thoroughly modern Christmas cake design on a non-traditional Christmas cake that incorporates my favourite flavour combination of peppermint and chocolate. The recipe uses swiss meringue buttercream and is topped with a peppermint glaze.

How about creating a Christmas cake to look like a Christmas wreath? Here's all you need to know to transform a red velvet cake into a Christmas decoration!

This is quite possibly one of my favourite Christmas cake designs ever. It incorpates candy canes and gingerbread men amongst other items to decorate a victoria sponge Christmas cake.

How about decorating a whole cake with candy canes and crushed candy canes? I'm sure this cake will have kids' eyes out on stalks.

This beautiful Christmas cake design is inspired by the bark of a silver birch tree and uses a clever - but easy - technique to create the bark effect. What I love about the cake design is how beautifully it brings nature into Christmas.

Fancy covering your Christmas cake in beautiful chocolate pinecones? Learn how in this easy to follow tutorial that will help you bring a nature inspired Christmas cake design to life.

There are white chocolate sponge layers, hidden Baileys and chocolate ganache and a delicious Baileys and white chocolate frosting involved in this beautiful Christmas cake that can easily stand in as the main dessert. It's decorated with chocolates and pine needles.

Take inspiration from this simple but effective Christmas cake design to make a Christmas day centrepiece cake.

Gingerbread is very much a Scandinavian Christmas flavour and this beautiful cake incorporates soft gingerbread cake decorated with cream cheese frosting and sugared cranberries to give a truly Scandi flavour.

This cake is a clever twist on a traditional Christmas cake recipe, it's a gingered Christmas fruitcake given a rustic look using marzipan, icing and assorted natural decorations.

Simplicity of design is the true beauty of this cake, that and the fact it is a gluten-free recipe, so perfect for those steering clear of gluten at Christmas. Use cream cheese frosting, candied cranberries and sugared rosemary to decorate.

Using a gingerbread house to create a design on top of a Christmas cake simply iced in cream cheese or buttercream frosting is a great way to make your Christmas cake look stunning without having to be super skilled at cake decorating.

This tutorial shows you how to use cream cheese frosting and shaped cookies to decorate a Christmas cake. It's great for those of us who aren't particularly blessed with cake decorating skills to create enable us to create something really beautiful.

This recipe is for an eggnog cake decorated in cream cheese frosting and white ganache to create a minimalist cake design that looks mouthwatering.

Why not use buttercream icing and homemade gingerbread men to create a snowy Christmas scene on top of a cake like this divine vegan gingerbread cake.

Want to create a standout Christmas cake design when you're not overly gifted in the cake decorating department?! Use this simple and easy to follow tutorial to create a stunning poinsettia covered cake.

Now this traditional Italian Pandoro Christmas Tree cake is an absolute stunner, but apparently it is very quick to put together. The cake is made with pistachios and white chocolate, it is such a minimalist Christmas cake and yet it and makes the most stunning centrepiece.