Hosting a Disney Inspired Christmas Party. You can create these beautifully creative Christmas Mickey and Minnie Mouse Cake balls with step by step instructions.
Christmas Mickey and Minnie Mouse Cake Balls
There is no denying it. Disney ANYTHING just brightens up any season. Turn ordinary cake pops into spectacular Christmas Mickey and Minnie Mouse Cake Balls.
They’re perfect for party guests who don’t want a whole piece of cake or those who want a little more than a piece of cake. Cake balls or pops also make a wonderful party favor tucked into a clear bag or wrapped in clear vellum and tied with a ribbon. They’re just too pretty to hide in anything else. Your party guests will love them!
Don’t you think they would look just adorable on this serving tray too?
And don’t you worry calories just don’t count when you’re enjoying one of these gorgeous Christmas Mickey and Minnie Mouse Cake balls.
Let’s Get Ready To Have Some Fun
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Following directions on the back of the cake box, prepare cupcakes as directed.
Once baked, place onto a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely.
It’s all about getting the cake broken into really fine crumbs after it’s baked. Once it is completely cooled using your hands break apart the cupcakes and roll each piece in between your hands. That breaks it down into really fine pieces.
Then add the frosting and mix well. Your cupcake mixture should resemble cookie dough texture.
Next using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into a 1 inch balls.
You are going to want to pair up 2 Ghirardelli Chocolate wafers with each cake ball for the ears. Add a wafer into each corner of the cake balls where ears would go. Repeat steps with remaining cupcakes and chocolate wafers. Place them onto a cookie sheet fitted with the parchment paper. When done, place into the freezer for overnight.
Now it is time to dress up your Christmas Mickey and Minnie Cake balls by dipping them in chocolate and adding in some accessories. Follow the complete directions below. You can even add a stick to the bottom of these adorable balls and turn them into pops.
Christmas Mickey and Minnie Mouse Cake Balls Recipe & Directions
- 1 box of Betty Crocker Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 packages of ghiradelli milk chocolate melting wafers
- 1 container of chocolate frosting
- 1 package of red candy melts
- 1 tube of white cookie icing
- 1 tube of black cookie icing
- 1 tube of yellow cookie icing
- 1 package of bow’s royal icing transfers
- 1 container of wilton holly melody sprinkles
- 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
- 1 cupcake pan fitted with cupcake liners
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Following directions on the back of the cake box, prepare cupcakes as directed.
- Once baked, place onto a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely.
- In a large bowl, using your hands and 5 cupcakes at a time, crumble cake into fine crumbs.Mix in 1½ spoonful of frosting until combined. Your cupcake mixture should resemble cookie dough texture.
- Next using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into a 1 inch balls.
- Then pair up 2 Ghirardelli Chocolate 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 them onto a 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. When chocolate of melted, take cake balls out of freezer. Carefully peel off a cake ball off the parchment paper
- Next dip the top half of the cake ball into the chocolate. Making sure that the ears and the top half of the cake ball gets coated. Lightly shake of excess chocolate and place back onto the cookie sheet Repeat steps with rest of the cake balls
- Once all have been dipped, time to melt the red candy melts. Once melted, carefully dip the bottom half of the cake balls into the chocolate. Again, lightly shake off any excess chocolate and place onto the cookie sheet.
- After all cake pops have been dipped into the chocolate, let sit for an hour to harden.
- Once harden, split the cake balls in half so that you have half mickey and half Minnie. Or however many of each you would like.
- 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. The carefully using tweezers, place two holly leafs and 3 red sprinkles for the berries on the corner of the yellow buckle. Mickey is complete.
- For Minnie using the white cookie icing, pipe on a line and polka dots for her 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. Then 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
Other Fun Christmas Season Recipes
Classic Gingerbread House Cookie Mix Recipe – Includes Template
Easy No Bake Peppermint Dipped Cookies
Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Salty Sweet Oatmeal Pretzel Cookies
For easy purchase you can grab the following candies using the links below.
Holly Mix Sprinkles 3.3 oz (Kitchen)
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Wilton 710-2217 Icing Decoration, Royal Polka Dot Bows (Kitchen)
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Dark Melting Wafers – 10oz (Grocery)
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