Chinese New Year

At Christmas I made three Christmas cakes. I used one at Christmas and kept the others to use later, and this was the second one. I was looking for a theme to decorate it and found it was Chinese New Year, so voila! Especially when I found it was the year of the snake - surely I'd be able to manage to make one of those.
So a Delia Christmas cake covered in marzipan and paste was the start. The snake was marzipan covered in paste with a light spray of silver and the paste roundels are the Chinese symbol for good fortune.

Chinese Year of the Snake