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!

Adorable Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Recipe — Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls

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

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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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