I'll preface by saying i'm trying to make Christmas lunch more "festive" as my extended family (who are hosting) are notoriously slack at making things spesh - and i want to Christmas-ify a rather boring dessert (appearance wise) - but i have zero artistic talent!

so, my thought - everyone loves chocolate ripple cake - they devour it when i flavour the cream with a bit of peppermint essence (step one to christmas-ify it) - but really, white cream is boring, so i want to make it more festive color wise. so i was thinking red and green cream, some broken candy canes, and some gold and silver sprinkles

BUT, i don't know how to go about getting the colored cream to work together!! i was thinking of maybe trying to be a little more "precise" when putting it together and having some of the cream between the bikkies red, then cover with green, put a red piped border on the plate, sprinkle with gold and silver and then candy canes

will it work? or will the green and red (well, pale green and pink really) meld together and make an ugly smoosh pile? could i just flavour one color mint and leave the other plain so it doesn't overwhelm? and given we appear to have misplaced our piping bag with the fancy ends (that we haven't even used yet) when we moved, is here another way i can pipe something fairly simple or should i just suck it up and buy one tomorrow?

any suggestions??