Santa Cake Balls

One more recipe for Christmas that I made last year but didn't get to post before the end of the season. So I saved it and now the time has come around again and I can post.

I made Santa Cake balls with an oreo cookie ball recipe base (I found several recipes for this, I'll link the one I found on All Recipes.

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed

 

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Directions

1. Mix cream cheese and cookie crumbs until well blended.
2. Shape into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
3. Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.

What you Need:

Red Melts (I used Red Velvet Flavor)

White Melts

Shredded Coconut

Cake Balls (I used Oreo & Cream Cheese)

Melted in microwave usually takes 1 min 30 sec depending on your microwave. Mine for a whole bag takes about 2 min. Dip half the cookie ball in red melts, let dry on parchment paper. If you get creative when you drip do a swirl to make a tip of a hat. After the chocolate hardens dip the bottom half of the Oreo ball into the white melts (melted as listed above), put aside 1/3 of the white for decorations.  Before the white is set dip into coconut (to make your beard). Let the white/coconut dry, while that is happening take the 1/3 of white melts you put aside into a pipping bag (I love to use Wilton disposable bags), snip a small tip. Pipe on the trim of your Santa hat also to add a dot of white at the tip of the red hat to be the pompom.

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1 Ingredient .. Homemade Unsalted Butter

Since I bake a lot I go through a LOT of butter!  Which can be very expensive.  I then saw a few weeks back on a friends facebook post she made homemader butter.  Off to Google Search I went and came across an easy way to make butter!  Now you can add salt making this 2 ingredients but it's all up to you!  I found the recipe on All Recipes.

Sometimes I get lucky and find heavy whipping cream on sale like I did this last week for $1.99.  I was able to make 2 pounds of butter for $1.99! I found my ninja was the easiest to use, my food processor was great but you have to be careful because the liquid at the end can go everywhere.

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups heavy cream

1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

1.

Pour cream into a food processor or blender. Process for 10 minutes, or until the butter separates. Strain off the liquid. Season to taste with salt if you like. Press butter into a small bowl with the back of a spoon to further remove liquid. (I found a paper towel would also help take out the liquid) If you don't use butter fast then you need to rinse the buttermilk out of the butter with cold running water, pushing the liquid out with a spatula. Salt should be added after the rinsing. Also, your cream and supplies should be very cold at all times for a good smooth consistency. Use at least 30% milk fat cream.

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