Gloverly Cupcakes

This year I really wanted to make a completely white Christmas cake, something elegant and something that could be made in advance. I also couldn’t resist using some LED light to add some Christmas sparkle! Click here to see some more pics of this gorgeous white cake.

I started by measuring roughly how big the circumference of the cake would be once it had the marzipan and icing on. I then measure this on some brown paper and divided it up into 8 equal houses. I then designed each house.

Next I cut out each house, rolled out some sugar florist paste and cut the houses out one by one, I used a square plunge cutter to make the square windows and heart and circle cutters for some of the other windows. The doors were cut with a sharp knife. I then cut strips for the roofs and glued them in place with edible glue. I then had fun and games trying to add the LED lights, I should have wound them around and secured them in place before I put the houses on and hidden the copper wire a bit better, so it wasn’t quite as neat as I had hoped, but they still look really cool when they are turned on.

Once they were hardened I iced the cake and began gluing the houses in place. There were a few things I didn’t quite get right, I hadn’t quite anticipated how the completely flat houses would alter how well they fitted around the outside, so I ended up with a 2cm empty gap. Then I managed to break one of the houses. So I ended up making two extra houses that were slightly narrower to fit neatly into the gap. I also didn’t think about how the sticking out edges of the roofs would make it tricky to fit the houses together next to each other.