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Easy Santa Cake

The cake is dressed up with red frosting, whipped cream, and a strawberry as Santa’s hat. To simplify the whole process, I used store-bought boxed cake mix and red frosting.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Decorating 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 mini cakes

Equipment

  • 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 cup butter melted
  • 3 eggs

Red Frosting

  • 1 container Pillsbury Funfetti Radiant Red Vanilla Flavored Frosting 15.6-ounce

Whipped Cream (There will be some leftover)

  • 2 ounce Full-fat cream cheese
  • 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Decoration

  • Strawberries
  • Chocolate
  • Christmas Sprinkles

Instructions

For The Cake

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
  • Mix cake mix, melted butter, eggs, and milk in a large bowl until fully combined.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Let them cool in the mold.

For The Whipped Cream

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

For Assembly

  • Remove large dome cakes from the silicone molds.
  • 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.
  • Remove medium dome cakes from the silicone molds.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Place a strawberry on top of whipped cream to make it look like a Santa hat. Repeat until all cakes have strawberries on top.
  • Melt some chocolate in a microwave, about 20 seconds. Place the melted chocolate in another piping bag or Ziplock bag. Draw Santa’s eyes.
  • Add some Christmas sprinkles on Santa’s jacket as buttons.
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