6 Easy Christmas Dessert Tricks

Are you running out of ideas to do this Christmas? Do you know how to make desserts but don’t know which design to do? Then, today’s featured tutorial is for you, it consists of tricks and tips on how to level up your existing knowledge of usual baking recipes. Put your skills in baking to use but make it creative through these 6 dessert tricks brought to us by Scrumdiddlyumptious on YouTube. Have fun learning and making these tricks!

Materials & Ingredients:

Chocolate Snowman

• Balloons
• Tempered white chocolate
• White chocolate cream
• M&Ms
• Fondant carrot
• Sour candy strip
• Tempered dark chocolate
• Chocolate ganache

Mini Pancakes

• 3 eggs
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 cup flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• ⅔ cup milk
• Clarified butter
• Powdered sugar to sprinkle on top

Spiral Dough

• ⅓ cup milk
• 2¼ cups flour
• ¼ cup dry yeast
• 3 tbsp sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• Melted butter
• Cinnamon sugar

Christmas Bark in Milk Carton

• 3.5 oz dark chocolate
• 2 pretzels
• 3 red M&M’s
• 6 almond slivers
• Gold star sprinkles
• 3.5 oz white chocolate
• 3 Raffaellos
• 1½ mini Reese’s peanut butter cups
• 2 milk chocolate pocky sticks
• 3 orange sprinkles
• 1 tbsp melted dark chocolate
• Coconut flakes
• 3.5 oz milk chocolate
• 1½ strawberry marshmallows
• Mini marshmallows
• 6 candy eyeballs
• 3 red hot candies
• Red, white, and green sprinkles

Chocolate Ball Ornament

• 2 bags white chocolate chips, tempered
• White food coloring
• Green food coloring
• Red food coloring
• Silicone mold
• 1 cup white chocolate chips
• ⅔ cup heavy cream, heated
• 1¼ cups whipped cream
• ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate flakes
• 2 tbsp pistachio cream
• 2 tbsp cherry jam
• Mini peanut butter cups
• Christmas string
• Gold edible glitter
• Silver edible glitter

Christmas Tree Cake

• 5 eggs
• 2 tbsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups flour
• 1¼ cups sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup water
• Red & green food coloring
• 8 oz marzipan
• 16 oz cream cheese
• Tempered white chocolate
• Red & blue food coloring
• Pocky sticks
• Sugar pearls & sprinkles

Directions:

Chocolate Snowman

Create a snowman by pouring tempered white chocolate over 2 balloons. Once it sets, pop the balloon and stack the 2 pieces with each other, filling it with white chocolate cream inside. Decorate buttons and eyes using M&Ms, put a fondant carrot on the nose, and wrap a sour candy strip around the neck to become a scarf. Spread tempered chocolate on a flat surface, top with parchment paper, and layer with another chocolate. Use a jar to roll the chocolate and let it sit, pour another tempered chocolate onto a parchment paper, make sure it’s round, attach the pieces to become a hat, put in the top of the snowman’s head, and fill it with chocolate ganache.

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Mini Pancakes

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder, and milk, beat it until smooth and frothy. Fry small portions on a pan to make mini pancakes. Sprinkle it with icing sugar and serve with chocolate ganache dip.

Spiral Dough

Combine and beat, eggs, sugar, milk, dry yeast, and vanilla extract. Let the dough rise, then flatten with a rolling pin, and cut it into strips. Cover the rolling pin with aluminum foil, brush with melted butter, and start rolling the strips around the aluminum foil. Brush it with melted butter before baking in a preheated 400°F oven for 20 minutes.

Christmas Bark in Milk Carton

Cut a clean milk carton in half, submerge a pack of chocolate bars in hot water to melt it, open the pack and pour onto the milk carton, do this with white and milk chocolate too. Decorate the chocolate bark with 2 halves of pretzel (deer’s antlers), red m&m (nose), white and milk chocolate drops for the eyes. Decorate the white chocolate bark with 2 halves of Raffaello (head and body of snowman), Reese’s (hat), pocky sticks (arm), melted chocolate (eyes), red sprinkle (nose), and coconut flakes for snow effect. Lastly, decorate the milk chocolate bark with strawberry marshmallows (hat), candy eyeballs, red candy (nose), mini marshmallows, and sprinkles. Let it cool and remove the carton, then serve.

Chocolate Ball Ornament

Separate tempered white chocolate in 3 bowls, mix with red, white, and green food coloring. Pour 2 of each color in a round silicone mold. In a mixing bowl, mix white chocolate, heavy cream, and whipped cream, then transfer in 3 separate bowls. Mix each bowl with semi-sweet chocolate, cherry jam, and pistachio cream. Use this to fill the chocolate molds, once filled, close it using the other half of the mold. Use the peanut butter cup inserted with a string as a bead cap of the ornament, design the ball with edible glitters.

Christmas Tree Cake

Separate 5 egg yolks and egg whites, make meringue on the egg whites, then mix the yolk with sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder, cooking oil, flour, and water. Once the batter is ready, pour the meringue onto it and fold gently. Pour half of the cake batter into another bowl, add red and green food coloring to the cake batter. Pour it on a cake pan alternately, then bake it at 360°F for 60 minutes. Layer the cake, then spread a cream cheese and marzipan mixture onto it, repeat another layer. Melt white chocolate, add green food coloring, then transfer onto a piping bag. Place a pocky stick then start drizzling sideways back and forth to make a mini Christmas tree. Cover the cake with tempered white chocolate, insert the mini Christmas trees, and sprinkle with lots of icing sugar.

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6 Easy Christmas Dessert Tricks