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Santa Hat Cake Pops
Festive Santa hat cake pops made from soft sponge and cream cheese, coated in red white chocolate and coconut.
From YouTube · Jan 6, 2026
Festive Santa hat cake pops made from soft sponge and cream cheese, coated in red white chocolate and coconut.
50 min
Prep time
15 min
Cook time
2 hrs
Total time
12 cake pops
Yield
Ingredients
16 ingredients- SPONGE
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g sugar
- 150 ml milk
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- 170 g plain flour
- 10 g baking powder
- CREAM
- 250 g cream cheese or mascarpone
- 150 g sweetened condensed milk
- COATING
- 250 g white chocolate
- 15 ml vegetable oil
- Red oil-based food colouring
- 30 g desiccated coconut
Method
21 steps- Preheat the oven to 170°C (338°F).
- Grease and line a shallow cake tin.
- Whisk the eggs, salt and sugar until foamy.
- Add the milk and vegetable oil.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder.
- Mix gently until smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
- Leave the sponge to cool completely.
- Mix the cream cheese or mascarpone with the condensed milk.
- Crumble the cooled sponge.
- Add enough cream cheese mixture to make a mouldable cake-pop mixture.
- Shape into approximately 12 cone-shaped Santa hats.
- Freeze or chill until firm.
- Melt 160 g of the white chocolate with part of the oil.
- Colour it red with oil-based food colouring.
- Dip the cake-pop hats into the red coating.
- Melt the remaining white chocolate with the remaining oil.
- Coat the lower edge and tip of each hat with white chocolate.
- Sprinkle the white sections with desiccated coconut.
- Chill until fully set.
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