Iced Fruitcake

I like fruitcake , know a lot of people don't. My personal opinion is, they haven't tried a homemade cake maybe only commerical cakes which are horrible.
My Mother makes superb fruitcake, 2 different kinds ;a light fruit filled cake and one filled with many nuts more like a nut cake.
I was lucky to still have a small round of the white fruitcake in my freezer ;took it out about a month ago; re soaking it in rum. One thing I have always wanted to try is decorating fruitcake with marzipan and royal icing..no time like the present! Another bucket list item checked off.
So today I rolled out marzipan then covered the cake over that spread royal icing.
Leftover marzipan I tinted and turned into holly and berries to finish the top.
Next time I would like to get the royal icing smoother, perhaps make the marzipan from scratch.. still I am looking forward to trying this decorated cake over the holidays.

More baking!

Party shortbread.
Son-in-law Willie's Mom shared this very old Mennonite recipe , in my opinion the very best shortbread ever...Christmas would not be Christmas without these delicious cookies.
1/2 lb. butter
1/2 cup sifted icing sugar
2 cups sifted flour, less 2 TB.
2 TB. cornstarch
Replace 2 TB. flour with 2 TB. cornstarch.Cream butter , add sugar gradually and blend in flour with hands( may need a bit more flour . Roll into cylinders and chill. Once very cold, cut into 1/3 inch thick slices. Place on buttered cookie sheets( I used parchment paper). Bake at 30 for 15-20 min. Watch like a hawk , don't brown. My cookies took 16 minutes in my oven.
Almond Icing;
4 TB. soft butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
pinch of salt
1-2 TB. milk or cream
1 tsp. almond extract or whatever flavouring you prefer.

Decorate with whatever sprinkles you like or not.

This cookie tastes even better after several days as the flavour mellows.

Sewing Challenge at LRW.

Here is my attempt at this weeks challenge which is sewing on a card...