Every year, my Nan bakes a delicious Christmas fruit cake and I am given the task of decorating it. I admit that I saw a similar design to this on a shop bought cake and thought it looked really effective, so i got to work with some blocks of icing and modeled an icing Santa and a sack for the presents. I covered the top of the cake a softer icing to stick the shapes to and finished the cake with some ribbon and dolly mixtures for the presents. I really enjoyed decorating the cake and find it much more enjoyable when I have found a design to work from, rather than making it up as I go along!