Cherub Caroler Mini Cakes

Cherub Caroler is ready to join the holiday chorus. Single-serve shortbread sweetheart is covered with pour-on royal icing and topped by a round candy halo.

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Makes: Each mini cake serves 1.


instructions

Prepare cookie recipe and press into Petite Tree Pan cavities. Bake and cool following pan instructions.

Unmold cookies from pan and place on cooling grid over a drip pan.

Thin white royal icing with water until it reaches pouring consistency. Cover cookies with icing. Transfer to waxed paper-covered board to dry.

Decorate the following in full-strength royal icing on waxed-paper covered board.

Pipe tip 352 pull-out leaf wings in white on sides of cookie, decorating from bottom to top.

Pipe tip 4 ball head in copper.

Add tip 3 outline arms in white with tip 2 dot hands in copper.

Pipe tip 2 dot mouth and outline eyes in black.

Pipe tip 2 spiral hair in brown.

Attach hollow-center candy halo with dots of icing.