Recipes for Christmas Cakes

During the holiday season everybody looks forward to toothsome cakes. Christmas celebrations remain incomplete without those yummy Christmas cakes. The moment you think of Christmas, you just can’t help visualising the beautifully decorated and designed delicious cakes.

This Christmas prepare your own cakes to win over the appreciation from your guests. But before you serve them the cakes, you need to send invitations to them, so that they can grace your Christmas party with their benign presence. For some unique Christmas invitation cards, I would recommend Invitation Box

Chocolate Cakes

Chocolate is the favorite flavor for most of the people.

Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe

For 10 servings

Ingredients:

• 10 oz (about 280 g) semi or bittersweet chocolate
• 8 eggs
• 200 g butter
• 260 g sugar
• 160 g all-purpose flour

Directions:

• Heat oven to about 350 deg F in advance.
• Then grease 10 muffin tins or cups using paper muffin bake cups.
• Fragment the chocolate into tiny pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
• Mash the eggs with sugar and then add flour to the mixture.
• The melted mixture of butter and chocolate should now be slowly folded.
• Bake it for only 8-12 minutes at about 350 degrees. It should be cooked in such a way that the inner part remains liquid.

You can serve Chocolate Lava Cake along with custard, whipped cream or berries.
For some more recipes for delicious chocolate cakes, check out Cacao Web

Pudding Cakes

There is a huge variety of pudding cakes. But you can begin with a Simple Pudding Cake .

Ingredients:

• Two packets of chocolate pudding
• One box Nilla Wafers

Directions:

• Make a layer of the wafers in a casserole dish.
• Add 1/4 of the hot pudding mix to it.
• Keep layering the wafers and pudding, until all of it is finished.
• Refrigerate for about an hour to let the pudding cool down and soak into the wafers.

When the sweet wafers will completely absorb the pudding, then your cake will be ready to be served.

If you wish to try your hand at other forms of pudding cakes then take a look at Group Recipes

Recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter flavored shortening
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons Mexican vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk chocolate chips

Directions:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees in advance.
• Grease cookies sheets.
• Mix the butter flavored shortening, brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy.
• One by one add the eggs and mash well with each addition. Then stir in the vanilla extract.
• Combine the flour, baking soda and salt and gradually stir into the creamed mixture.
• Finally, fold in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until light brown.
• Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

For some other recipes for yummy Christmas cookies, I would recommend you to consult All Recipes

Christmas Cake Decorating Ideas

Preparing the cake is only half the task done. The most significant aspect is to decorate the cake so as to give it a more tempting look.

• The decorations can be done according to the theme of the cake or of the party.
• You can make use of marzipan paste. It is not only used for decorative purposes but can be eaten as well.

For some innovative ideas of cake decorations consult The Party Works

So, impress your guests by making use of the above Christmas cakes recipes.

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