First I need to go a little Fan Girl over the Edible Crafts section of CraftGossip.com. The editor Meaghan posts some of the most awesome food projects ever. I must have similar taste to her because I love all the projects she features. She is also the author of a cookie book, Cookie Sensations, which I think is so awesome. Meaghan featured these Chocolate dipped “cakeberries” from Dollhouse Bake Shoppe and I knew I must make them.
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Essentially they are cake-pops formed into strawberries and dipped to look like a strawberry. I have never made a cake-pop before, so why not start out with a bang. Go big or go home, that’s my motto!
I deviated from the original a little bit:
- I used Strawberry cake and icing. The red velvet looks more like a strawberry but I liked the idea of keeping strawberry flavor.
- I used airheads for the strawberry tops. I only had two green airheads for 25 cake pops, so some of them were lacking in that department. I need to bite the bullet and get some fondant skills!
- I couldn’t find my food coloring so I tried to tint the toothpicks with gel writing frosting. Kind of a fail, it was sorta tinted green but the gel stuff never really hardens.
- One box of cake mix made 25 strawberries. Some of my strawberries were really big, so I could say 30-32 is probably an appropriate number to count on.
Here are mine looking all delicious on the tray.
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I found these cute treat boxes at the Dollar store back in January so I put his teacher’s treats in them. I love the little window. My only regret is only buying two. The rest of my boxes didn’t have a fun little window. I took the cardstock my son stamped and made them a backing for his teacher valentines. All his hard work didn’t have to go to waste!
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I took them to 6 different people. I snagged one from my Mom when I delivered hers. They were pretty tasty. I think I am hooked on cake-pops now!
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Oh Lord, those are adorable!!!! 🙂
I will tell you as a recipient of these gorgeous treats, they taste even better than they look! DELICIOUS!!! Thanks Ashley!!
Oh and Ashley, if you make them again keep the airhead topping! That was the perfect bit of sour to the sweet. I loved it! I personally hate the taste of fondant unless it’s flavored just right so I think it would have made them too rich. The airhead was perfect! (I was wondering what it was, I thought fruit roll up at first but it seemed thicker!) Loved it!
Jacqui just said everything I wanted to say. They were insanely delicious!!!!! Thanks Ashley!! And please feel free to give me more whenever you want!
Oh my, that’s fantastic! I also joined Lil LUna’s link party (right next to you). I had no idea those weren’t real strawberries until I looked at your post! Very creative!
Jen
Scissors & SPatulas
mmm! These look fabulous! They’re so pretty and almost to nice to eat…but not quite! YUM!
Fantastic work! I was just notified about this post and so happy you decided to try my cakeberries, they came out great! Check out more of our edible craft tutorials at: http://blog.dollhousebakeshoppe.com/p/sweet-creations-index.html
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Oh these are so sweet!! In more ways than one 🙂 I hope you’ll come and link up to TOO Cute Tuesday!
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Those are SO cute! Those would be awesome to bring to a party, you would get so many ooohs and ahhhs! Thanks for joining Idea Sharin’ Wednesday!
Jill
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I love it! They look so realistic and delicious. I bet they were well received and gobbled up in no time.
These are so cool looking! I love it!
Love this! Very creative!
Denise
Extreme Personal Measures
Genius!!! You need to e-mail this to Bakerella herself.
These look delectable!!! Please check out the party I host every Friday… we would love to have your projects linked up! http://www.bubblynaturecreations.com/2011/02/project-party-weekend-make-your-blog.html
What….YUMMMMMM! these look to good to make for anyone else…I’d have the whole lot eaten in 5 min!
Would love you to share at my food fight!
http://choochmagooz.blogspot.com/2011/02/food-fight-friday-dukka-dunk.html
Love these!!! I am so saving these for Strawberry Shortcake party! Thanks for sharing! I love cake pops, once you start you can’t stop!
how creative and wonderful v-day gift. found you on hodgepodge friday. Come visit and follow back if you get a chance.
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These look fantastic!!!!!!!!
Those are so much fun and yummy looking! Thanks for sharing and linking up! 🙂
those look so fancy and delish!
They look so sweet and tasty. What a wonderful idea to give as gifts. Love this, thanks for sharing.
What a great gift idea! — Hollie
I am a Huge fan of cake pops and look for any reason to make them. I LOVE the look of these and how you presented them. What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
They look fantastic! Not sure what air heads are though!
Found you on Sumo’s SS, now following! 🙂
Thanks for linking to TAke-A-Look Tuesday over at Sugar Bee Craft Edition – I featured you today! – Mandy, http://www.craftedition.blogspot.com
Those look sooo delish! WOW you did an amazing job with them! I just want to keep staring at the pictures! haha 🙂
Yum! I bet those would be a hit in my house! How fun!
Thanks for adding them to Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
WOW I love it, how darling and clever! I love strawberries and this is really a fun take on them. I’ll be featuring you tomorrow on A Crafty Soiree, thanks for linking up!
ok seriously, you rock! I am in love with this!!! Right now it’s strawberry season, and the Strawberry Festival starts in 9 days. I am SO going to make these!!! Thank you
They are beautiful, and what a clever idea! Love them. I featured you today on my snack round up 🙂
http://sunshineandchaucer.blogspot.com/2011/02/bite-sized-treat-round-up.html