Christmas is here!!

Christmas is here and for me it is a time for a break from work and time with family get togethers. It has been a long but thoroughly interesting year.
To celebrate the festive season I made a fruit cake and decorated it with inspiration from Su Yin. It is actually my first fruit cake. I am in general not a fan of fruit cake but it is a requirement as a celebratory cake standard as well as being a heavy cake required to build multi tiered cakes.
The christmas tree is actually a ice cream cone piped with royal icing. I wanted the cake to be playful and have an essence of what Christmas should be.
In one part of the cake I have my little friends working together decorating the tree. On the other side of the cake is two friends having a snow fight behind a snowman they had jsut made. The little one holding the ribbon near the tree was originally a naughty friend going for a number 1 next to the tree. I was going to add a few drops of yellow to the cake in that area but I canned this idea as it would not be appropriate but was on my mind when I was building the cake. Hehe..
I thought everyone enjoyed it. Merry Christmas.