Santa Hats Recipe 365

CHEERY CHEESECAKE SANTA HATS

Steps:

• For the red velvet crust: Adjust the oven racks to the middle and bottom of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13-by-9-inch metal baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Place a double layer of parchment into the pan so that it overhangs the long sides; spray the parchment with cooking spray.
• Add half of the cookies to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the cookies resemble crumbs. Drizzle in half of the butter and half of the red dye, pulsing until it's all incorporated. Remove the first batch to a large bowl and repeat the with the remaining cookies, butter and dye. Combine both batches, then pour the cookie mixture into the prepared baking pan, using your hands to press the crust down to make one even layer. Bake for 10 minutes.
• For the filling: Beat the cream cheese, granulated sugar and vanilla together in a stand mixer using a paddle attachment. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add the sour cream and mix again. Pour the filling over the crust and smooth the top.
• Put a large roasting pan with water on the bottom rack of the oven and put the pan with the cheesecake on the top rack. Bake until the cheesecake is set and no longer jiggly, about 45 minutes.
• Turn off the oven, open the oven door and allow the pan to sit in the open oven for 15 minutes. Remove and allow to cool for at least 2 hours. Once cooled at room temperature, refrigerate to chill for another 2 hours.
• To assemble: Remove the cheesecake from the baking pan. Using a 2-inch round pastry cutter, carefully punch out 15 cheesecake circles. Remove them to a serving platter. Refrigerate while you make the mascarpone cream.
• For the whipped mascarpone cream: Add the cream to the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and whip to stiff peaks. Add the mascarpone and confectioners' sugar and mix until well combined and smooth. Transfer the mixture to a piping bag fitted with a number 12 pastry tip.
• For the Santa hats: Pipe a rim of the mascarpone cream around the top of each cheesecake circle. Put an inverted strawberry into the center of each and top with a tiny blob of the mascarpone cream. Chill to set.
• To assemble the snow scene: Arrange the Santa hats on a cake stand, place the miniature Christmas trees, reindeer and sleigh and cowboy Christmas figurines around and dust with confectioners' sugar snow.

SANTA HATS RECIPE - (3.6/5)

Steps:

• Melt candy melts as directed on package. Dip a Bugle in melted candy. Dip brim of hat in the nonpareils. Set aside to dry on a waxed-paper lined baking sheet. (If they won't stand, just lay them down.) Continue dipping until desired number of hats are made. Stick a mini marshmallow on the tip of each hat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christmas Party Mix: 3 cups Wheat Chex cereal 3 cups Rice Chex cereal 2 1/2 cups original Cheerios cereal 3 cups broken mini pretzel twists 2 cups unsalted dry roasted peanuts 2 cups Bugles snack chips 8 - 10 miniature Reese's peanut butter cups 3/4 cup red and green M&M's candy 1 (24 oz) block of white almond bark Extra red and green M&M's for garnish, optional Tear two large pieces of parchment paper and place on counter. Combine first 8 ingredients; then divide the mixture and spread out on two large jellyroll pans. Melt half the block of almond bark as directed on package. (I heated it in a small non-stick saucepan.) Drizzle the melted candy over one pan of the mixture then use a egg turner to flip it over and over until the mixture is coated well. Spread mixture out on one sheet of the parchment. Melt other half of almond bark and repeat the previous step for the other pan of mixture. Allow about 2 hours for the candy to harden before breaking into pieces. Transfer mixture to a serving dish then garnish with extra M&M's and Santa Hats, if desired.

SANTA'S HATS

Steps:

• Melt the almond bark in the microwave, small amounts at a time.
• Using a butter knife or teaspoon, fill the wide opening of the snack with almond bark.
• Stick an M&M into the almond bark while it is still soft.
• Place on waxed paper to cool, store in an airtight container.
• I like to use the multi colored candies as it adds a bit more color to a cookie tray rather than just red and green.
• I have done them at other holidays using the seasonal colored candies.

SANTA HATS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Beat egg whites in a bowl until they form soft peaks; beat cream of tartar and vanilla extract into egg whites. Gradually beat white sugar into mixture until meringue forms stiff peaks. Transfer 1/4 of the meringue mixture into a separate bowl. Beat red food coloring into remaining 3/4 of meringue.
• Transfer colored meringue into a piping bag fitted with a round tip. Pipe 20 Santa hat shaped triangles, about 1 1/2 inch tall and bending over at the tips, onto the parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle the hats with red sugar.
• Transfer remaining 1/4 uncolored meringue into a clean piping bag fitted with a round tip. Pipe little white pom-poms onto each hat tip and a small edging of fluffy white trim onto the bottom of each hat.
• Bake meringue cookies in the preheated oven until hard but not browned, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Turn off oven and let cookies cool inside oven until crisp, 1 hour.