During the holiday season, we all have our favourite desserts and sweet treats we like to make. Whether we are hosting a party or visiting friends or family, we like to share them with our loved ones. If you are looking for something new this year why not try making cake balls for Christmas, the possibilities are endless. They will make a great hostess gift or nice display on a table with all your other desserts.
Christmas Themed Cake Balls
For some of us, at Christmas, we love to stick to a theme whether it be decorations or the food we make. No matter if your theme is snowmen, tree ornaments, jingle bells or a favourite character, cake balls are the right choice. By mid-October, Christmas stuff starts to appear in the stores and you will be able to find a variety of cake sprinkles and decorations to add to your cake balls. If you are a Disney fan like me, then these Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake balls will fit right in. If cakes balls are not your thing, why not try these Mickey Mouse Gift box Pretzels or these 12 Rice Krispy treats.
Coating the Cake Balls
Candy melts come in a variety of colour so they are the first choice when making some fun holiday cake balls. You can use white chocolate or regular baking chocolate as well. You will need to make sure the consitency of the candy melts is fairly thin and not too thick. If you prepare the balls a head of time and have stored them in the fridge before coating, bring them to room temperature before dipping. If the cake balls are too cold the coating will crack. To Dip them use a fork or stick and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
How to Store Cake Balls
Once your cake balls ar completed you will need to store them in an air tight container and can leave sitting on the counter. If you didn’t use candy melts you will want to store them in the fridge otherwise the chocolate will melt. Did you make them to server at a later date? Cake balls can be stored in the freezer for up to 6 weeks.
Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls
For the holiday season, why not make these adorable Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls that will please Disney kids of all ages, young or old!
Makes 12 cake balls
Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Ingredients
- 1 box of chocolate cake mix
- 1 cup of water
- 1/2 cup of oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 packages of milk chocolate melting wafers
- 1 container of chocolate frosting
- 1 package of red candy melts
- 1 tube of white cookie icing
- 1 tube of black cookie icing
- 1 tube of yellow cookie icing
- 1 container of Wilton holly melody sprinkles or Candy holly leafs and red sprinkles.
Kitchen Tools
- 1 bow royal icing transfers or buy already made icing bows
- 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
- 1 cupcake pan fitted with cupcake liners
How To Make The Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Following the back of the cake box directions, prepare cupcakes as directed.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake for 21 minutes.
- Once baked, place onto a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes for cupcake pan and continue to cool until complete cool.
- Using a large bowl, remove cupcake liners and place cupcakes into the bowl, about 5 cupcakes at a time.
- Using your hands, crumb up the cupcakes into fine crumbs.
- Mix in 1 1/2 spoonful of frosting until combined.
- Your cupcake mixture should resemble cookie dough texture.
- Using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into a ball.
- Using 1 package of chocolate, pair up 2 wafers with each cake ball for the ears.
- Place a wafer into each corner of the cake balls where ears would go.
- Repeat steps with remaining cupcakes and chocolate wafers
- Place onto cookie sheet fitted with the parchment paper
- Once done, place into the freezer for overnight
Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Icing
- Using a double boiler, melt the second bag of milk chocolate wafers.
- Once chocolate is melted, take cake balls out of freezer.
- Carefully peel off a cake ball off the parchment paper.
- Carefully dip the top half of the cake ball into the chocolate so that the ears and the top half of the cake ball gets coated.
- Very lightly shake of excess chocolate and then place back onto the cookie sheet.
- Repeat steps with rest of the cake balls.
- Once all have been dipped, clean out your pot so that you can melt the red candy melts
- Once the candy melts have been melted, carefully dip the bottom half of the cake balls into the chocolate.
- Lightly shake off any excess chocolate and place onto the cookie sheet.
- once all have been dipped into the chocolate, let sit for an hour for the chocolate to harden.
- Once harden, split the cake balls in half so that you have half Mickey and half Minnie.
- Using the black cookie icing, pipe on a black belt into the middle of the red.
- Using the yellow cookie icing, pipe on a yellow square for the buckle.
- Using tweezers, carefully place two holly leafs and 3 red sprinkles for the berries on the corner of the yellow buckle.
- Using the white cookie icing, pipe on a line and polka dots for Minnie’s dress.
- Pipe a dollop onto the back of a bow icing transfer and place in the middle in between the ears for Minnie’s bow or use store bought white icing bows.
- Using tweezers, carefully place two holly leafs and 3 red sprinkles for the berries on the corner of the dress.
- Let dry for an hour.
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Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Recipe
Equipment
- cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
- cupcake pan fitted with cupcake liners
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 bag milk chocolate melting wafers
- 1 container chocolate frosting
- 1 bag red candy melts
- 1 tube white cookie icing
- 1 tube black cookie icing
- 1 tube yellow cookie icing
- 1 package bow’s royal icing transfers
- 1 container Wilton holly melody sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Following the back of the cake box directions, prepare cupcakes as directed.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake for 21 minutes.
- Once baked, place onto a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes for cupcake pan and continue to cool until complete cool.
- Using a large bowl, remove cupcake liners and place cupcakes into the bowl, about 5 cupcakes at a timeUsing your hands, crumb up the cupcakes into fine crumbs.
- Mix in 1 1/2 spoonful of frosting until combined.
- Your cupcake mixture should resemble cookie dough texture.
- Using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into a ball.
- Using 1 package of chocolate, pair up 2 wafers with each cake ball for the ears.
- Place a wafer into each corner of the cake balls where ears would go.
- Repeat steps with remaining cupcakes and chocolate wafers.
- Place onto cookie sheet fitted with the parchment paper.
- Once done, place into the freezer for overnight.
- Using a double boiler, melt the second bag of milk chocolate wafers.
- Once chocolate is melted, take cake balls out of freezer.
- Carefully peel off a cake ball off the parchment paper.
- Carefully dip the top half of the cake ball into the chocolate so that the ears and the top half of the cake ball gets coated.
- Very lightly shake of excess chocolate and then place back onto the cookie sheet.
- Repeat steps with rest of the cake balls.
- Once all have been dipped, clean out your pot so that you can melt the red candy melts.
- Once the candy melts have been melted, carefully dip the bottom half of the cake balls into the chocolate.
- Lightly shake off any excess chocolate and place onto the cookie sheet.
- once all have been dipped into the chocolate, let sit for an hour for the chocolate to harden.
- Once harden, split the cake balls in half so that you have half Mickey and half Minnie.
- Using the black cookie icing, pipe on a black belt into the middle of the red.
- Using the yellow cookie icing, pipe on a yellow square for the buckle.
- Using tweezers, carefully place two holly leafs and 3 red sprinkles for the berries on the corner of the yellow buckle.
- Using the white cookie icing, pipe on a line and polka dots for Minnie’s dress.
- Pipe a dollop onto the back of a bow icing transfer and place in the middle in between the ears for Minnie’s bow.
- Using tweezers, carefully place two holly leafs and 3 red sprinkles for the berries on the corner of the dress.
- Let dry for an hour.
Notes
- 1 container of Wilton holly melody sprinkles or Candy holly leafs and red sprinkles.
These are so adorable! This will definitely put my novice decorating skills to the test but they would be so worth it! I know they will be such a big hit with the kids and the adults!
Let me know how they turned out!
These are great and timely the 3 kids are all mickey mouse mad with the littlest very much a Minnie Mouse girl. I know we would all enjoy these!
OH my goodness those are absolutely adorable. They sound delicious too.
oh my gosh! these are so festive and beyond adorable. My girls would totally love these mickey and minnie cake balls <3
These are so cute, I don’t know if I have the patience to do these tho..lol
Adorable! These would be a big hit for our holiday get togethers.
These are adorable! I don’t know if I’ll be able to make them look as good, though 😛
These are sure going to make people smile
so cute!
These are super adorable and great for potluck parties! thanks for sharing and perfect timing!
These are adorable!
These are too cute! And I think the kids would have tons of fun helping to make them.
So cute! I wish I could make things like that!
This recipe would be a perfect one to make with my girls on a Snow Day. What a cute idea for a holifay recipe!
These cake balls are adorable and I bet their delicious too
There you go, I’ve now learnt how to make cake balls – now they aren’t too difficult but the rest must take quite a while. I doubt that I have the patience to make these.
now those are just so adorable!
These look too nice to eat.
These are seriously just SOOO cute I don’t think I could eat them – they are too perfect!
Oh my gosh, I can just see my grandchildrens faces if they saw these. Might be an idea for next Christmas.
They are so adorable! A must for any Disney fan! Hoping they like them.
I am all things Disney so this recipe is right up my alley! Love it!!!
Awesome! Let me know how you like it!
These look so beautiful and tasty! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks these are really cute but look time consuming but would be perfect for a special occasion
These are so cute and would be great to make for a special day