Croatia, gingerbread A regional craft in northern Croatia since the middle ages, each baker using his or her own distinctive decorations including coloured icing, pictures, mirrors, messages, or the names of newlyweds.
Fill an icing bag with coloured icing and with a small metal nozzle designed for writing and detail ice your message.
You can use royal icing in order to cover the cake or even pouring coloured icing sugar over the cake can create a nice desired effect.
Del Conte freezes the whole thing until solid, then plunges the block of coffee-coloured ice into hot water, before beating it back into crystalline submission.
One image, shot inside (of all things) a freezer in a Kentucky store, gives us a nightmarish winterscape of bruise-coloured ice.
Harbin Festival, China One of the biggest snow festivals in the world, covering 40,000 square metres, Harbin is the home of Chinese ice and snow art, famous for its sculptures, giant jelly-tot-coloured ice lanterns and ice pagodas, as well as music, folk dancing and fireworks.
The leap over the log is where the dark of the swamp really starts and the first thing you see are the old Spackle buildings, leaning out towards you from shadow, looking like melting blobs of tan-coloured ice cream except hut-sized.
In the bowels of the rink is a broom cupboard filled with an array of multi-coloured ice hockey sticks, laid out with precision.
Photograph: Zoe Williams 12.00pm GMT Not quite the Great British Bake Off These are some cakes I made to get rid of the ready coloured fondant icing.
