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| Ho ho ho - Merry Christmas!!! |
… and more an artist’s impression of Santa
Claus rendered in good things rather than a recipe. Below is how I did it. You may prefer to look at the photo and figure out your own unique strawberry Santa.
To produce these ones, I used...
Large ripe strawberries
Marshmallows for the face
Bits of liquorice for the eyes and nose
Desiccated coconut for the beard
Whipped cream for the face, beard, pompom (and 'gluing' the bits of Santa together)
Blueberries for the boots – cut them
into quarters.
Cut the bottoms off a punnet of large
ripe strawberries, so that they have a flat base to stand on.
Slice off the pointy end, about 1/3 of
the way from the tip. This will form the hat.
Sit the fat end of the strawberry on a
plate. Pipe a little whipped cream onto the upturned face of the strawberry. Top
with half a marshmallow – cut it if necessary so that it is about the same size
as the upturned face of the strawberry. Press it into place. Add a little more
whipped cream on top and place a strawberry ‘hat’ on top. Pipe cream onto the
marshmallow ‘face’, giving an impression of a beard.
Sprinkle the beard with desiccated
coconut, then press the bits of liquorice into place for the eyes and nose.
Place two quarter blueberries at the
base of the strawberry so that they look like shiny boots. (They won't stay there when the Santa is picked up, but they look great until the moment of eating and people tend to collect them up and eat them).
Pipe a little
whipped cream on top of the hat to form a pompom.
Repeat until someone hands you a glass
of wine and offers to take over. Merry Christmas!!!
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| Hmmm - some you win, some you lose - the one on the left looks more like Santa's dog!!! |
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