Strawberry Santas
I love a good party. And I love party food. Appetizers are probably my favorite dish and I'm sorry to say that I haven't been making enough of them lately! I was super happy to have an excuse to try out this recipe for our church Christmas party a couple of weeks ago. I saw this recipe on 21 Rosemary Lane and just fell in love with the cute little Strawberry Santas!
This recipe is super easy!
Strawberry Santas
2 packages of fresh strawberries
8 oz cream cheese
8 T powdered sugar
1 T vanilla (use white if you have it)
Try to find strawberries that are as "hat shaped" as possible. With a paring knife cut off the stems. Then slice the bottom off the strawberry leaving about 2/3rds.
Mix your cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with a hand mixer. (Make sure your cream cheese is at room temperature. I did this at the last minute before the party and the cream cheese was too cold. It didn't want to stick to the strawberries and they looked messier than I would have preferred.)
If you have fancy decorating gear you can use it but I simply put my cream cheese mixture in 2 ziplock bags. I cut a tiny hole in the corner for the buttons and a larger hole in the other bag for the filling and the topper.
Pipe your cream cheese on the strawberry and top with the bottom 1/3. Pipe on the hat and the buttons and you are finished! The original recipe called for chocolate jimmies for eyes but I didn't have any and I still think they look pretty cute without!
A variation of this would be leaving the strawberries whole and then piping a large pompom on top to make it look like a santa hat.
Another mistake I made was using a dark vanilla. I have dark and clear vanilla. I couldn't find the clear that day and I think they look a little dingy since the dark vanilla changed the color of the cream cheese.
Hope you enjoy these cute little snacks! My 2 year old thought they were wonderful and I think they were a hit at the party too!
Like this recipe? I'd love it if you pinned it!
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These are so cute! And relatively healthy...which is perfect for the holidays!!
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Could these be any cuter?? LOVE!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea. I love that it uses fresh fruit, which might balance out all of the chocolate I've been consuming :)
ReplyDeleteThose are just the cutest things imaginable! Love this idea!
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They are so cute! And I don't think they look dingy at all :-) I really enjoy appetizers too although I find that I probably eat more because I keep thinking it's only a little!
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ReplyDeleteHow adorable, and looking really tasty!
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I made this on last year's Christmas eve party and was a complete hit!
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Visiting from Domesblissity. This is awesome. I love that it is fruit too. I find all the sweet stuff a bit much at Christmas. Love love love it. Will be making some myself
ReplyDeleteThese are ADORABLE! I know my little girl would flip over these.
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Saw these on Pinterest. Thank you for the recipe. They are so cute. Need to use these for my party.
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Such a cute idea!!
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These are cute Laura. Just want to say thanks so much for finding me and linking up at Thriving on Thursdays. Merry Christmas to you and your family and we hope to see more of your fantastic ideas in 2013.
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ReplyDeleteThese are just adorable! Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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These are adorable and I'm sure taste so yummy, too!!
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so pretty. I saw these awhile ago on pinterest and had no clue you were the source! yay!
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