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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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âWe make these fruit and cake Santas every Christmas,â writes Crystal Duncan of Fayetteville, Arkansas. âThey go together easily and are fun to make,â she adds. Ingredients:
1 loaf (10-3/4 ounces) frozen pound cake, thawed |
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened |
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar |
12 red-frilled toothpicks |
12 large strawberries, cut in half widthwise |
24 miniature semisweet chocolate chips |
12 fudge-covered cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies |
Directions:
1. Cut twelve 1-in. cubes from pound cake (save remaining cake for another use). For icing, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar on high speed until light and fluffy. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert a #18 star tip. Fill bag with icing.
2. For each Santa, thread a frilled toothpick through a pointed strawberry half, then through a cake cube and a second strawberry half. For eyes, place a dab of icing on the bottoms of two chocolate chips; press onto cake. Pipe icing to form beards and to add fur brims below strawberry hats. Place each Santa on a cookie; serve immediately. Yield: 1 dozen.
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