Rudolph Christmas Cakes

Christmas is the most fun time to play with creative Christmas cakes. These cakes have been shared via a Cake Mums Facebook group. These ladies sure know how to make their cakes.

So, as the Festive Season is just around the corner, I thought that some Christmas cake ideas (featuring the famous Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer) that are suitable for any Christmas function would batter you up (get it?) for the oncoming load of Christmas Parties, demands for Christmas cakes, and Christmas shopping that is seriously too close for comfort. Let me know in the comments if you were inspired by these scrummy-looking Christmas cakes and actually made them for your next Christmas party, Christmas function, or any classic Christmas get-together.

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Cake Credits are as followed.

Donna Dubsky-Clarke

Jade Warren

Natasha Price

Nicole Trotter

Michelle Buruato

Danika Mumosaurus Lemessurier

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When I knit socks (which sadly I have not done in a while; need to get a new pair on the needles soon!) I generally stick to pretty simple designs and colorwork that isn’t all that detailed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fancy sock, I’m also just pretty lazy and I figure a project worked on size 0 or 1 US needles is going to take a long time even without the added work of intricate colorwork, so why make it more complicated?

But there are definitely socks out there I’d be willing to make an exception for, and I think Tangled Bliss by Annette Schleicher may just be one of them.

If you can’t tell from looking, this is decidedly an advanced knitting pattern. There’s brioche for the cuffs, complex looking colorwork done with the ladderback jacquard technique, multiple charts, and colors changing everywhere.

There are links to tutorials for all the special skills in the pattern, but still it would help to have a handle on these concepts before you get started.

The pattern uses three colors of light fingering weight yarn at a whopping 31 stitches per 4 inches/10 cm (that’s 7.75 stitches per inch/2.5 cm).

Would you believe me if I told you that this pattern was designed for a speed knitting contest? Speed would be the last thing on my mind.

But again, I think all the work for these fancy socks would be worth it. I love hoe the colorwork looks like an old tile floor, and think of the bragging rights when you tell people you made them yourself. (Though of course you did; have you ever seen store-bought socks that look anything like this?)

Best of all, this pattern is available for free on Ravelry, so there’s no reason not to give it a try if you’ve got the skills. If you do, I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Annette Schleicher]

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