Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls Recipe
For the holiday season, why not make these adorable Mickey and Minnie Christmas Cake Balls that will please Disney kids of all ages!
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
Notes:
- 1 container of Wilton holly melody sprinkles or Candy holly leafs and red sprinkles.
KITCHEN TOOLS
Nutrition
Calories: 684kcalCarbohydrates: 90gProtein: 4gFat: 36gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 0.04gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 470mgPotassium: 218mgFiber: 1gSugar: 74gVitamin A: 61IUCalcium: 65mgIron: 2mg
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