I cheerfully admit that for a cake decorator, I’d make a good bricklayer. One day I’d like to do a fancy sugarcraft course and make dainty flowers and swans and do painfully smooth royal icing and stuff, but for now, my hamfisted approach works fine, especially when the cake inside is what I’m *most* interested in.

My “decoration” is made up of blobs of ready-to-roll icing in various colours and a bit of writing icing for the features. Note the fetching “handknitted” scarf and hat. Even penguins can’t escape my festive knits.