If you love Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes, wait until you turn them into these adorable Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake Balls! 🎄❤️
These bite-sized Christmas treats are creamy and cake-like on the inside, coated in smooth white chocolate, and decorated with festive red icing and green sprinkles. Best of all, they’re super easy to make with just a few ingredients and require absolutely no baking!
Whether you need an easy dessert for a Christmas party, holiday cookie tray, family gathering, or Christmas movie night, these Christmas Tree Cake Balls are guaranteed to disappear quickly.
Why You’ll Love These Christmas Tree Cake Balls
These little treats check all the boxes for an easy holiday dessert:
- 🎄 Perfect for Christmas parties
- ❤️ Only a few ingredients
- 🎅 No baking required
- ✨ Easy enough for kids to help make
- 🍰 Uses the iconic Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes
- 🎁 Perfect for holiday treat boxes and homemade gifts
- ❄️ Can be made ahead of time
If you’re looking for an easy viral Christmas dessert that looks adorable without requiring hours in the kitchen, this is the one!
Ingredients
For the Cake Balls
- 1 box Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes (5 cakes)
- 2 tablespoons softened cream cheese, optional
- 10–12 ounces white chocolate melting wafers or white candy melts
For Decorating
- Red cookie icing or melted red candy melts
- Green sanding sugar or green sprinkles
Tip: Christmas Tree Cakes are already soft and creamy, so you may not need cream cheese at all. Start by mixing the cakes by themselves and only add cream cheese if you need extra moisture to help the balls hold together.
How to Make Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake Balls
Step 1: Crumble the Christmas Tree Cakes
Unwrap the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes and place them in a large mixing bowl.
Use a fork, your hands, or an electric mixer to break the cakes apart until you have a soft, dough-like mixture.
If the mixture seems too crumbly to hold together, mix in softened cream cheese about 1 tablespoon at a time.
Step 2: Roll Into Balls
Scoop out approximately 1 tablespoon of the cake mixture and roll it between your hands to create a smooth ball.
Repeat until all of the mixture has been used.
You should get approximately 15–18 cake balls, depending on how large you make them.
Place the cake balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet or plate.
Step 3: Chill
Refrigerate the cake balls for about 30 minutes, or place them in the freezer for approximately 10–15 minutes.
You want them firm enough to dip without falling apart, but don’t freeze them completely solid.
Step 4: Melt the White Chocolate
Place the white chocolate melting wafers or candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl.
Microwave in 20–30 second intervals, stirring between each interval, until completely melted and smooth.
Step 5: Dip the Cake Balls
Using a fork or dipping tool, lower each chilled cake ball into the melted white chocolate.
Make sure the entire ball is coated.
Lift it out, gently tap off the excess chocolate, and place it back onto the parchment paper.
Continue until every cake ball has been coated.
Step 6: Decorate!
Now comes the fun part!
Once the white chocolate coating has set, drizzle thin lines of red icing across the top of each cake ball.
Immediately sprinkle with green sanding sugar or green sprinkles.
The finished cake balls will have the same festive red, green, and white colors as the original Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes!
Allow the coating and decorations to completely set before serving.
Tips for the BEST Christmas Tree Cake Balls
Don’t add too much cream cheese. The Christmas Tree Cakes already contain plenty of frosting and filling, so adding too much cream cheese can make the centers overly soft.
Chill before dipping. This is one of the most important steps! Cold cake balls are much easier to coat in melted chocolate.
Use melting wafers. White chocolate melting wafers or almond bark are usually easier to work with than regular white chocolate chips.
Decorate before serving. A little red drizzle and green sugar instantly gives these cake balls that recognizable Christmas Tree Cake look.
Fun Christmas Variations
Want to make them even more festive? Try swapping the decorations!
You could use Christmas-colored nonpareils, crushed candy canes, edible glitter, holiday sprinkles, or even a drizzle of green candy melts.
You can also place each cake ball in a miniature Christmas cupcake liner for an adorable party presentation.
How to Store Christmas Tree Cake Balls
Store your finished cake balls in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to about 5 days.
If you’re stacking them, place parchment or wax paper between the layers to keep the decorations looking pretty.
Let them sit at room temperature for a few minutes before serving for the softest, creamiest texture.
Can I Make Them Ahead of Time?
Absolutely! That’s one reason these are such a great Christmas party dessert.
Make them a day or two before your holiday gathering and keep them covered in the refrigerator until you’re ready to serve.
One less dessert to worry about on Christmas Day!
Nutrition Facts
Approximate nutrition per cake ball
Based on approximately 16 cake balls.
- Calories: 160
- Total Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Carbohydrates: 21g
- Sugar: 16g
- Protein: 1g
- Sodium: 80mg
Nutrition information is an estimate and will vary depending on the brands, decorations, amount of chocolate coating, and serving size used.
Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake Balls Recipe
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Chill Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Servings: About 15–18 cake balls
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- 5 Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes
- 2 tablespoons softened cream cheese, optional
- 10–12 ounces white chocolate melting wafers
- Red cookie icing
- Green sanding sugar or sprinkles
Instructions
- Unwrap the Christmas Tree Cakes and place them in a mixing bowl.
- Mash the cakes until they form a soft, dough-like mixture.
- If needed, mix in cream cheese 1 tablespoon at a time.
- Roll the mixture into approximately 15–18 balls.
- Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Melt the white chocolate according to the package directions.
- Dip each chilled cake ball into the melted white chocolate.
- Place back onto the parchment paper and allow the coating to set.
- Drizzle each cake ball with red icing.
- Finish with green sanding sugar or sprinkles.
- Allow the decorations to set, then serve and enjoy!
The Perfect Easy Christmas Dessert 🎄
These Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake Balls might just become your new favorite Christmas treat! They’re sweet, creamy, festive, and ridiculously easy to make.
Plus, there’s something about Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes that instantly tastes like Christmas nostalgia. Turning them into bite-sized cake balls makes them even more fun for holiday parties, Christmas dessert boards, classroom treats, cookie exchanges, or cozy nights watching Christmas movies.
If you’re searching for an easy no-bake Christmas dessert, save this recipe because you’ll definitely want to make it when Christmas Tree Cakes hit the shelves!
Made these Christmas Tree Cake Balls? Leave a comment and let me know how they turned out — and don’t forget to save this recipe on Pinterest so you can find it again when the holiday baking season begins! 🎄❤️✨
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to make these delicious Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake balls! If you liked this one, you should check out my Christmas Peanut Butter Balls recipe and the rest of my blog. If you have any questions, please contact me at: [email protected]