22 CHRISTMAS CAKE DECORATING IDEAS 2022

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!