Santa Cake – Easy Recipe

Santa cake has arrived! Christmas is definitely my favorite holiday of all. The shiny lights and the smell of the fresh-cut Christmas tree lift up my spirits. To celebrate this beautiful time of the year, I made mini Santa clause cakes. This recipe is really easy, and the cakes will be a crowd-pleaser!

Each mini Santa cake is dressed up with red frosting, whipped cream, and a strawberry as Santa’s hat. To simplify the whole baking process, I used store-bought boxed cake mix and red frosting. If you have your favorite cake or frosting recipe, they will be perfect for this cake, too.

When I use a store-bought cake mix, I always arrange it to make it taste better. The following ingredients can be replaced:

• From vegetable oil to butter
• From water to milk

Just switching these out makes a huge difference in taste!

WHAT TOOLS ARE NEEDED FOR THIS SANTA CAKE?

• Electric stand mixer or hand mixer
• Large silicone mold (2.75 inches in diameter per dome)
• Medium silicone mold (1.5 inches in diameter per dome)
• Parchment paper (Optional)
• Cake decorating turntable (Optional)
• Piping bags or Ziplock bags
• Piping tip

Ingredients

Cake (Makes about 12 half-dome cakes + 24 small half-dome cakes)

• 1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Butter Pecan cake mix
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cups butter, melted
• 3 eggs

Red Frosting

• 1 Pillsbury Funfetti Radiant Red Vanilla Flavored Frosting, 15.6-Ounce

Whipped cream (There will be some left-over)

• 2oz. full-fat cream cheese
• 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Decoration

• Strawberries
• Some chocolate
• Christmas Sprinkles

Instruction

For The Cake

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
2. Mix cake mix powder, melted butter, eggs, and milk in a large bowl until fully combined.
3. Pour the mixture into the silicone molds. Fill 12 large silicone domes and 24 medium silicone domes. Do NOT fill the molds to the top. It will overflow when baked.
4. Bake the cake batter for about 15 mins for the medium silicone molds and about 20 minutes for the large silicone molds. Stick a toothpick into the middle of the cake, and if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
5. Let them cool in the mold.

For The Whipped Cream

1. Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl until creamy.
2. Add heavy whipping cream into the cream cheese mixture and whip it with a hand mixer or a stand mixer until firm peaks form.
3. Refrigerate it until needed for decoration

For Assembly

1. Remove large dome cakes from the silicone molds.
2. Put the red frosting into a piping bag or Ziplock bag with a piping tip. Pipe the frosting to cover the entire dome cake. Repeat until all individual domes are covered. (Tip: if you have a cake decorating turntable, decorating on top of it will make the process easier. If you don’t own it, place a small piece of parchment paper underneath each cake dome, and spin the paper as you pipe the frosting around the cake). Set them aside.
3. Remove medium dome cakes from the silicone molds.
4. On the flat side of the dome, place a small amount of red frosting in the center (Do NOT spread the frosting). Grab another medium dome cake and press them against each other to make a ball shape. Place the ball on top of each large dome cake.
5. Put the whipped cream into another piping bag or Ziplock bag with a piping tip (or you can simply snip the corner off). Pipe a small amount of whipped cream on top of each ball. Also, pipe some whipped cream at the front side of the ball to draw Santa’s beard.
6. Place a strawberry on top of whipped cream to make it look like a Santa hat. Repeat until all cakes have strawberries on top.
7. Melt some chocolate in a microwave, about 20 seconds. Place the melted chocolate in another piping bag or Ziplock bag. Draw Santa’s eyes.
8. Add some Christmas sprinkles on Santa’s jacket as buttons.

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