Snow-Globe Cake
with Twigg Studios

We'll let you in on a secret. There's few things that bring us joy more than cake. Frosting and cream? Preferable. Devouring with a generous cup of tea? Always. And while some may reserve the occasion for birthdays, we think yuletide bakes deserve their due.

Aimee Twigger – author and recipe developer behind Twigg Studios – certainly knows her way around a festive spread. As the talented woman behind one of Instagram’s most tempting feeds (meringue Christmas trees and towering gingerbread houses, anyone?), we enlisted her help to create a cake (almost) too good to eat. The idea? Chocolate with a magical twist...

"I was walking past an Anthropologie store when I noticed the snow globe-inspired windows," says Aimee. "Snow globes are often collected to treasure a special moment in time or memory, so I thought it would be fun to create a miniature version on cake.

Inspired by a Rococo's Christmas Pudding Chocolate Bar, it's spiced full of festive flavours. I iced it with my favourite caramel mascarpone frosting and decorated it with little white chocolate stars and gingerbread trees.

Chocolate cakes are so easy to make as you don’t need to cream the ingredients together, just mix everything with a whisk or spoon."