Description
Delightful and festive Strawberry Santas with creamy cream cheese frosting, perfect for holiday appetizers or desserts. These cute treats combine fresh strawberries, a sweet and smooth cream cheese frosting, and mini chocolate chip accents to create a fun and delicious Santa-themed snack.
Ingredients
Scale
Strawberries
- 12 strawberries
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
Decorations
- mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Make the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine the softened cream cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar. Mix until creamy and well blended.
- Whip the cream: Add the heavy cream to the cream cheese mixture and whip for 4-5 minutes until the frosting is thick, smooth, and creamy.
- Prepare piping bag: Transfer the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag for easy decorating.
- Prepare strawberries: Carefully wash the strawberries and pat them dry thoroughly so the frosting adheres well. Remove the green stems and cut about 1/4 inch off the top of each strawberry to create small cones to act as Santa hats. Set the hats aside.
- Assemble Santa’s body: Pipe the cream cheese frosting generously onto the bottom parts of the larger strawberry pieces to form Santa’s beard and face.
- Add Santa hats: Place the smaller cut strawberry pieces (Santa hats) on top of each frosted strawberry body.
- Decorate hats: Optionally dust powdered sugar over the hats to simulate snow, or leave plain. Use remaining frosting to pipe a white pom-pom on the tip of each hat.
- Create facial features: Pipe two small side swirls on the beard area to form Santa’s mustache and place two mini chocolate chips on the face for eyes.
- Chill and serve: Refrigerate the assembled Strawberry Santas until ready to serve. Enjoy these festive treats!
Notes
- Ensure strawberries are completely dry before piping frosting to prevent it from sliding off.
- For easier piping, chill the frosting briefly if it becomes too soft.
- Mini chocolate chips can be substituted with small edible pearls or black sesame seeds for the eyes.
- Powdered sugar dusting is optional but adds a festive snowy effect.
- Use fresh, firm strawberries for best results and presentation.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 piece
- Calories: 90 kcal
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 20 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 5 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg
