Vickys Strawberry Santas with Dairy-Free Option

• 10 large strawberries
• 200 grams cream cheese, see my dairy-free recipe links below
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 20 poppy seeds for the eyes

1. Rinse the strawberries, cut a thin slice off the wide end so they sit flat on the plate and cut off the pointed tops, about a quarter of the whole strawberry.
2. Dig out the inside of the main part of each strawberry with a paring knife from the end that the tops came off.
3. Keep the tops as these are used for the Santa hat
4. Put the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract into a mixing bowl and beat until creamy.
5. Add enough powdered sugar to make it taste as sweet as you like it.
6. Put the mix into a piping bag
7. To make the Santa faces, pipe the mixture inside the hollowed out strawberry.
8. Add a small amount of the mixture to the top of the strawberry to make the face part and place the tops you cut off back on
9. Pipe a couple of dots onto the body strawberry for buttons and a blob on top of the hat part for a pom-pom.
10. Place 2 poppy seeds on the face part for eyes
11. Instead of the seeds you could use chocolate sprinkles or an icing pen

strawberries, cream cheese, vanilla, poppy seeds

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/334191-vickys-strawberry-santas-with-dairy-free-option (may not work)