Name: Mini square Christmas cakes recipe
Prep time: 1 h
Yield: Makes: 16
Cuisine: Baking
Ingredients: 1 classic Christmas cake; 1tbsp apricot jam; 2 x 1kg packs marzipan; 2 x 500g packs white ready-to-roll fondant icing; 2 x 500g packs blue ready-to-roll fondant icing; 25g pack Organix mini gingerbread men

By Rosie Hopegood

published 29 September 2021

in Recipes

These sweet mini square Christmas cakes make a wonderful alternative to mince pies. Keep some on hand for guests, or pop a few in a box to give as a gift.

Mary Berry’s delicious Christmas cake recipe makes an excellent base. We’ve gone for simple decorating designs with miniature gingerbread men and delicate snowflakes, but the options are endless. Use edible glitter and silver dragees to add a touch of sparkle, or buy ready-made festive cake toppers in your favourite designs.

Ingredients

1 classic Christmas cake
1tbsp apricot jam
2 x 1kg packs marzipan
2 x 500g packs white ready-to-roll fondant icing
2 x 500g packs blue ready-to-roll fondant icing
25g pack Organix mini gingerbread men

You will need:

Snowflake plunger cutters
Ribbon

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Method

Make the cake in an 18cm square cake tin, triple-lined with baking parchment, and bake according to recipe instructions. Once cool, cut into 16 smaller cakes of equal size.
Brush each cake with the jam mixed with 1tsp water, then cover with marzipan, smoothing the sides and trimming the edges. Roll out the white fondant and cover 8 cakes, smoothing and trimming again. (Use the white fondant trimmings to make the snowflakes). Repeat with the blue fondant to cover the remaining cakes.
Decorate with gingerbread men, snowflakes and ribbon.

Top tip for making these mini square Christmas cakes

Try red cakes with mini Santas or green cakes with reindeer decorations too.

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Rosie Hopegood is a journalist, editor, and writer with many years of experience writing about lifestyle, including parenting, for a broad range of magazines and newspapers. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, Rosie has written for Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, Telegraph Magazine, Fabulous Magazine, Stella Magazine, Notebook Magazine, Saga Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, S Magazine, and Stella Magazine. She spent five years on staff at the Mirror, where she was Deputy Features Editor on the magazines team.