Kids always love Christmas as they will spend great holidays, unwrap their gifts and eat their favorite cookies. They would also love creating their cakes decorations. Why not let them help you in decorating your Christmas cookies. Try Father Christmas sack made from brown marzipan. First, mold the marzipan into a smooth ball and model into a sack shape. As sacks ‘come in all shapes and sizes’ it does not have to be too exact. Squeeze it in near the top and partly open, then have brightly colored ‘parcels’ either peeping out or piled around the base of the sack.
Or, create a wide chimney from white sugar paste, and have the legs of Father Christmas sticking out of the top. Model the chimney and brush with brown coloring. Once the color is dry (to give the impression of bricks), scrape lines outlining the bricks and show the white ‘mortar’ between. The legs are sausages with boots on, bent to whichever angle you please!
An easier ways is to make flat Christmas trees by rolling out green marzipan, or sugarpaste, to about 1/4 ” thick. Then cut the trees out, using either a cutter, or a cardboard template. For added attraction, mark them vertically with the back of a knife. Stick around the sides of an iced cake with small groups of holly berries between the trees. Another idea is to cut a tree in half from top to bottom and stick half on either side of a completed tree to make it stand up.