Description
These festive Strawberry Santas with Cream Cheese Frosting are a delightful and easy-to-make holiday treat featuring fresh strawberries filled with creamy, sweetened cream cheese frosting, decorated with mini chocolate chips to resemble Santa Claus.
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
- Prepare the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine the softened cream cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar. Mix until creamy and smooth.
- Whip the cream: Add the heavy cream to the mixture and beat for 4-5 minutes until thick, smooth, and creamy.
- Prepare the strawberries: Wash the strawberries carefully and pat dry to ensure the frosting sticks well. Remove the stem from each strawberry and cut off about 1/4 from the top to create the smaller cone for Santa’s hat. Set these tops aside.
- Assemble the Santas: Transfer the cream cheese frosting into a piping bag. Pipe the frosting onto the bottom larger part of each strawberry to form Santa’s beard.
- Add the hats: Place the smaller strawberry top pieces on the filled bottom pieces to make Santa’s hat. Optionally, dust powdered sugar over the hats for a snowy effect.
- Decorate details: Use the piping bag to add a white pom-pom on top of each hat and pipe two side swirls to create Santa’s mustache.
- Add the eyes: Place two mini chocolate chips on each strawberry for the eyes.
- Chill and serve: Refrigerate the finished Strawberry Santas until ready to serve for the best taste and appearance.
Notes
- Make sure strawberries are completely dry before frosting to prevent slipping.
- Use softened cream cheese to ensure a smooth frosting texture.
- For easier piping, chill the frosting briefly before transferring to the piping bag.
- Mini chocolate chips can be replaced with small edible sugar pearls for different eye styles.
- Dust powdered sugar lightly to achieve a snow effect without overwhelming the flavor.
- This recipe works well as a fun holiday appetizer or festive dessert.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 110 kcal
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 45 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
