Description
Delightfully festive Strawberry Santas with a creamy vanilla cream cheese frosting, perfect for holiday gatherings or a fun dessert. These adorable treats use fresh strawberries, a sweet cream cheese mixture, and mini chocolate chips to create charming Santa faces.
Ingredients
Scale
Strawberries
- 12 strawberries
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- mini chocolate chips (for eyes)
Instructions
- Make the frosting: Place cream cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar into a medium bowl. Mix until creamy and smooth.
- Whip the cream: Add heavy cream to the cream cheese mixture and whip for 4-5 minutes until thick, smooth, and creamy.
- Prepare strawberries: Wash strawberries carefully and pat dry. Cut off the stems and slice 1/4 off the top of each strawberry to create the Santa hat pieces. Set these aside.
- Assemble bodies: Using a piping bag, pipe the cream cheese frosting onto the larger strawberry pieces to form Santa’s beard.
- Add the hats: Place the smaller strawberry top piece (Santa hat) onto the frosted bottom piece.
- Decorate hats: Optionally dust the hats with powdered sugar for a snowy effect, then pipe a small dollop of frosting on the tip of each hat as the white pom-pom.
- Create mustaches: Pipe two side swirls just below the hat brim to form Santa’s mustache.
- Add eyes: Place two mini chocolate chips on the body for Santa’s eyes.
- Chill and serve: Refrigerate the assembled Strawberry Santas until ready to serve for the best texture and flavor. Enjoy!
Notes
- Make sure strawberries are completely dry to help the frosting adhere better.
- You can substitute mini chocolate chips with small candy pearls or edible black decorations for eyes.
- For a lighter frosting, use whipped topping instead of heavy cream, but the consistency may be less stable.
- Use fresh strawberries close to serving time to prevent them from becoming soggy.
- Dust powdered sugar over the hats just before serving to maintain the snowy look.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Strawberry Santa
- Calories: 120 kcal
- Sugar: 8 g
- Sodium: 45 mg
- Fat: 9 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
