Edible Santa Suit Candy Cups

Add a touch of whimsy to your Christmas treats this holiday by making Edible Santa Suit Candy Cups. You can fill them with candies, pudding, chocolate mousse, or nuts.

This has sure been a busy holiday season for me, trying to balance my chocolate making business with blogging while making sure our exchange student has a wonderful holiday experience.

In between working in the candy kitchen, we’ve taken time to go do some fun activities; we’ve decorated a gingerbread house, made caramels with friends, played bingo (I won!), shopped a lot, and even found time to see Santa.

This past Saturday we even volunteered at a parade and holiday festival then took a class and made a fleece blanket and pillow before coming home to package more chocolates. Yesterday we spent a very full day in the candy kitchen working 14 hours and will have an equally busy day today.

Whew, I’m exhausted.

Last week, during a few free hours, I had some fun experimenting in the kitchen and created some sweet treats for Christmas including these completely edible Santa Suit Candy Cups.

They can be filled with candies, as pictured, and used as party favors, or they can be filled with anything from chocolate mousse to ice cream for Christmas dessert.

Edible Santa Suit Candy Cups

Products used to make this project that are available on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)

Before you begin, if you don’t have experience working with confectionery coatings or modeling chocolate, read my detailed Chocolate Making Tips page (here.) If you work with pure chocolate, you can use them here instead of the confectionery coating/candy melts.

Instructions: (scroll down for video tutorial)

Allow your melted candy coating to cool enough that you can still pour it easily, but thick enough that it will coat your plastic cups with a thick layer.

If your coating is really thin, you will need to do this process twice, creating two layers of candy coating for your cups. Pour candy coating into a cup, filling it to the top.

Let it sit at room temperature for 3-5 minutes. Turn it upside down and allow the candy coating to drip out. Tap the cup a few times to help remove the excess candy coating.

Use a spatula or knife to scrape across the open edge of the cup to remove the dripping candy.

Wipe the edge of the cup clean using your finger.

Place the cup in the freezer for 4-5 minutes until your candy hardens. Do not leave the cups in longer than 5 minutes or your candy may crack.

Repeat to create as many cups as you want. You will have to re-heat your candy coating during this process to keep it at a pourable consistency.

To remove the candy cups from the plastic cups, tug on them carefully and just slide them out. If they won’t come out, push on the bottom of the cup allowing the suction to release then pull candy cup out.

If you didn’t do a great job of cleaning the edge of your candy cups, you may have to break the seal around the edge by running a small sharp knife around the edge to remove excess candy.

Allow your edible candy cups to come to room temperature before decorating.

Allow your melted white confectionery coating to cool slightly so that it thickens a bit.

Use a spatula or paint brush to frost just the top edge of each candy cup with the white candy coating. You want to create the look of fur.

Freeze the cup for 1-2 minutes after adding the fur or just let the candy air dry.

Dust a cutting board lightly with powdered sugar.

Roll out white modeling chocolate and some black modeling chocolate to 1/16″ thickness.

Cut small squares from the white (I used a small square fondant cutter in the video I used square plunger cutters) and 3/8 inch by 6 inch bands from the black using a knife or pizza wheel. Cut a smaller square out from the inside of each small white square creating a buckle.

Lightly brush some water on the back side of the buckle and attach it to the belt.

Lightly brush some melted confectionery coating on the back side of a black belt and wrap it around the middle of your candy cup, cutting off any excess modeling chocolate.

Fill with candy to use for party favors or fill them with chocolate mousse, pudding or even ice cream and serve for dessert.

You can store the Edible Santa Suit Candy Cups in an airtight container for several weeks.

UPDATE: Enjoy this new step-by-step video tutorial.

You might also like these other festive Christmas treats…

Roly Poly Santa Cake • Santa Claus Cookie Pops
Ice Cream Cone Santa Suits • Reese’s Cup Rudolph
Ice Cream Cone Santa Hats • Frosty Snowman Pretzels
Mrs. Claus Chocolate Truffle Pops • Edible Santa Suit Candy Cups