Description
Delight your guests with these adorable Strawberry Santa's featuring a creamy vanilla cream cheese frosting. Perfect for holiday parties or a festive dessert, these bite-sized treats combine fresh strawberries with a smooth, sweet cream cheese filling and chocolate chip eyes for a whimsical touch.
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
- mini chocolate chips (about 24 pieces)
Instructions
- Make the Cream Cheese Frosting: Place the softened cream cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar into a medium bowl. Mix until creamy and well combined.
- Thicken the Frosting: Add the heavy cream and continue mixing for 4-5 minutes until the mixture is thick, smooth, and creamy.
- Prepare the Strawberries: Carefully wash the strawberries and dry them thoroughly so the filling adheres properly. Cut off the stems and then slice 1/4 off the top of each strawberry to create a smaller cone shape for Santa’s hat. Set these hat pieces aside.
- Assemble the Santa Body: Using a piping bag, pipe the cream cheese mixture onto the larger bottom parts of the strawberries to create Santa’s beard and body.
- Add the Hat: Place the smaller top strawberry pieces on the filled larger pieces to form Santa’s hat.
- Add Frosting Details: Dust powdered sugar over the hats for a snowy effect if desired. Use the piping bag to add a white pom-pom on top of each hat and pipe two side swirls below the pom-pom to create Santa’s mustache.
- Make the Eyes: Place two mini chocolate chips on each Santa to form the eyes.
- Chill and Serve: Refrigerate the Strawberry Santas until ready to serve. Enjoy this festive treat!
Notes
- Make sure strawberries are thoroughly dry before filling to prevent frosting from sliding off.
- You can substitute mini chocolate chips with small candy pearls or edible beads for eyes.
- If you don’t have a piping bag, use a plastic sandwich bag with a small corner cut off to pipe the frosting.
- For a lighter version, reduce the heavy cream by half and substitute the rest with Greek yogurt, though texture will vary.
- Decorate the hats with red sanding sugar for extra sparkle before adding frosting details.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Strawberry Santa
- Calories: 85 kcal
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 35 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 5 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg
