Using color is one of the simplest and most subtle ways to add a Christian touch to food. You can easily use food dyes to bring color and meaning to frostings and icings used in cakes and pastries. You can use pristine white cupcake icing coupled with red and green to commemorate the occasion. Just use your imagination to produce Christmas ornament cupcakes to get everyone in the mood for the season.
The Christian faith is ripe with meaningful symbols that you can use in your culinary creations: doves can stand for peace or purity; the cross stands for Christ Himself and the sacrifices He did for mankind; the Bible too can be used along with images of fish, lambs, and other things of significance. You can place these on a backdrop of pure white and you’ll end up with a cake that will gather a lot of praise. They can also serve as wonderful pieces to commemorate an occasion – a cake frosted with light blue or pink icing and laid with doves can be the perfect cake to celebrate the Christening of your little angel. You still have lots of options in the form of nuts, candies, sprinkles, and icing to make your designs as personal as you like them.
If you are feeling a little more adventurous, you can try depicting scenes from the Bible. You can easily recreate the nativity with just store-bought farm animals and some colored icing for the manger and the surrounding scenery. Figures that can stand in for the Holy Family and the three wise men can be had if you know where to look. Everything can then be easily put together to great effect.
Easter has a lot of images based on edible things that you will have even less problem decorating for it. Easter eggs are the staples of this occasion and you can either place the chocolate varieties on a cake or arrange them on a basket to amaze kids and adults alike. The Easter bunny is a simple figure to recreate and he can grace your cakes, pies, and even individual cupcakes and pasties if you are more experienced in baking. If you are particularly bold in going all out with your baking, you can even make an entire cake shaped like the lovable symbols of Easter as a bunny or egg is shaped simply enough if you know how. Now that will impress anyone! If you don’t feel particularly brave in experimenting or can’t spare the time, there’s always the store-bought variety. At the end of the day, all that’s important is that you are with family during the holidays.
