Ingredients
1 cup thickened cream
1 cup icing sugar
sifted
2 strawberries
2 soft liquorice
or baking chocolate chips
Allergy Advice
Contains Dairy
Contains Gluten
Contains Soy
Equipment
- 1 piping bag
- 1 icing press
- 1 fluted nozzle
- 1 paper towel
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients together.
- Whip cream and icing sugar together until quite firm.
- Hull the strawberries and then cut the tip off each. Sit each strawberry on paper towel to soak up the juice.
- Fill a piping bag (or icing press) with a fluted nozzle with the cream mixture and pipe it onto the cut surface of the strawberry to create a head.
- Using the tip of the nozzle, join the cream and pipe a little “beard” for the Santa halfway down the side of the strawberry. It’s important to make these join up so the cream on the head takes the weight of the cream from the beard. Place tip of strawberry on cream. Alternatively you can just pipe two buttons.
- Pipe a “pom pom” onto the top of the strawberry. Place liquorice or chocolate chips for eyes and serve.
Notes
Tip
Adding the icing sugar to the cream gives it a bit of structure so it pipes and supports itself firmly.
Tip
It’s really important to place the strawberries on the paper towel or you will have a red mess.
Variation
You can add half a teaspoon of vanilla to the cream mixture if you want vanilla cream.
Storage
Refrigerate until required so the cream doesn’t collapse in the heat.
