Marzipan mushrooms

Stump de Noël is just as festive as the Bûche de Noël, but perhaps a little easier to make. It has delicious mulled wine flavor infused into the chocolate cake layers and it's filled with black cherry buttercream.

Along with the late fall mushrooms that seem to pop up everywhere, so too begins the holiday season, full of good food, friends and family and tasty sweets. In an effort to mix a little nature education in with our sugar rush, we decided to make models of wild mushrooms out of marzipan. Whether bought at the store or made at home, marzipan can be easily rolled and molded almost like play dough. Mushroom shapes can be simply crafted and embellished with coco powder... ... or a little natural…

Must Love Herbs - Lauren May on Instagram: "Tomorrow is my birthday and I just finished my “Fairy Child in the Wild” cake! 🧚🏻✨It’s a butter pecan cake with vanilla buttercream frosting! I made cake crumb moss and marzipan mushrooms, bees and a teddy bear! It’s really nice when an idea (especially one scribbled on scrap paper) comes to life! I will post the recipe tomorrow along with more detailed shots. Now to relax, eat good food with good friends, and enjoy the next couple days…

Use this recipe to make our Buche de Noel.

Meringue mushrooms are adorable on Christmas cookie platters and perfect for decorating cakes like yule logs (Meringue mushrooms step-by-step photos)

I love using marzipan to model cake decorations; typically, I make woodland decorations - mushrooms, pinecones, holly berries, and holly leaves - for my bûche de noël. Pressed for time, I ended up buying a tube of marzipan tonight for these mushrooms that will go on the dessert tray tomorrow night. But I've had homemade marzipan and it is undeniably better than this. Still, these will suffice, especially since these will be plucked from the tray by excited little hands! Once I formed the…

Along with the late fall mushrooms that seem to pop up everywhere, so too begins the holiday season, full of good food, friends and family and tasty sweets. In an effort to mix a little nature education in with our sugar rush, we decided to make models of wild mushrooms out of marzipan. Whether bought at the store or made at home, marzipan can be easily rolled and molded almost like play dough. Mushroom shapes can be simply crafted and embellished with coco powder... ... or a little natural…

Marzipan mushrooms look adorable placed alongside a Buche de Noel, but they could enhance any winter holiday cookie tray as well.

What does your family eat for dessert at Christmas dinner? In my family, our Christmas dessert for years and years was the traditional steamed Christmas pudding, served a-flame; however a few Chris…

Airy, delicious, and unbelievably realistic, these meringue mushrooms are a showstopper. Use them to decorate a Yule Log / Bûche De Noël.