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Mickey Mouse Snowman Truffles
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Mickey Mouse Snowman Truffles

Cake balls are one of my favorite things to make over the holidays and I’m so excited to make these Mickey Mouse Snowman Truffles. The kids love these adorable little snowmen with candy scarves and cookie ears!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time21 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Mickey Mouse snowman truffle recipe, MIckey Mouse snowman truffles
Servings: 12 snowmen
Calories: 638kcal
Author: Jill

Ingredients

  • 1 box betty crocker chocolate cake mix
  • 1 C water
  • 1/2 C oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 packages of ghiradelli white chocolate melting wafers
  • 1 container of chocolate frosting
  • 1 tube of black cookie icing
  • 1 tube of orange cookie icing
  • 1 package of Twizzler peel and pull

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Following the back of the cake box directions, prepare cupcakes as directied
  • Fill cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake for 21 minutes
  • Once baked, place onto a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes
  • Remove cupcakes for cupcake pan and continue to cool until complete cool
  • Using a large bowl, remove cupcake liners and place cupcakes into the bowl, about 5 cupcakes at a time
  • Using your hands, crumb up the cupcakes into fine crumbs
  • Mix in 1 1/2 spoonful of frosting until combined
  • Your cupcake mixture should resemble cookie dough texture
  • Using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, scoop mixture into your hands and roll into a ball for the head of the snowman
  • Using 1 package of ghiradelli chocolate, pair up 2 wafers with 12 cake balls that you are using for the snowman head
  • Place a wafer into each corner of the cake balls where ears would go
  • Repeat steps with remaining 11 head cake balls
  • Place onto cookie sheet fitted with the parchment paper
  • Using a bigger scoop, scoop some cake ball mixture into your hand and roll
  • You want the bottom half to be twice the size of the head
  • Place into the freezer for overnight
  • Using a double boiler, melt the second bag of white chocolate wafers
  • Once chocolate is melted, take cake balls out of freezer
  • Carefully peel off the larger cake ball off the parchment paper
  • Carefully dip the whole cake ball into the chocolate
  • Very lightly shake off excess chocolate and then place back onto the cookie sheet
  • Repeat step with remaining bottoms
  • Carefully dip the head into the melted chocolate and then carefully place the head onto the center part of the body
  • Let the chocolate harden
  • peel a twizzler strand off and tie around the neck of the snowman
  • Using the black cookie icing, pipe on the coal for the body and the face
  • Using the orange cookie icing, pipe on the nose
  • Let dry for 30 minutes before enjoying!

Nutrition

Calories: 638kcal | Carbohydrates: 75g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Cholesterol: 51mg | Sodium: 417mg | Potassium: 334mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 61g | Vitamin A: 75IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 157mg | Iron: 2.4mg