Are you a Disney fanatic as much as I am? On November 18th, it was Mickey and Minnie’s birthday! Both Disney characters appeared in the movie Steamboat Willie on November 18th, 1928 and were created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios. 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 15 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 package of bow’s royal icing transfers
- 1 container of Wilton holly melody sprinkles
- 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
- 1 cupcake pan fitted with cupcake liners

How To Make The Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls
Cake Directions
- 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
- 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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Adorable Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Recipe
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 package of bow’s royal icing transfers
- 1 container of Wilton holly melody sprinkles
- 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
- 1 cupcake pan fitted with cupcake liners
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
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