How To Make Strawberry Shaped Cake Pops

This Strawberries 1st Birthday Party might be one of my all-time favorites!   I just can not get enough of the strawberries, the pink and flowers... I just love, love, LOVE this theme!

I must mention that I don't love my photos of this cake.  This was done back in early 2014 when I was still learning new things about my camera.   Truth be told, I'm 

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To do to get this grainy dark look.  Oh well... I couldn't resist sharing the pics - even if they're not my best!

Strawberry Birthday Cake Pops (no Bake!)

The cake was 7 and 9 tiers.  The top tier was white cake - the bottom was strawberry cake.  It was covered and decorated with homemade marshmallow fondant.  I used my pearl mold for the borders and then this Martha Stewart mold for the strawberries.

The flowers were made with these little flower plunger cutters and I used leaf cutters from the Wilton Gum Paste Flowers set.

Next up - the smash cake.  It was a single layer 6 round cake.   It was white cake covered in pink vanilla buttercream.   I used my pearl mold again for the border and the same strawberry mold and flower and leaf cutters mentioned for the big cake above.

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Strawberry Cake Pops

Strawberry Cake Pops... I thought these would be SO fun.  I was wrong.  They were hard.  I had to hand-roll each cake ball into the strawberry shape and it took forever 

I was never happy with them.  I made a terrible mess dipping them in red and then worse than terrible when I tried to add the white dots (ie., seeds).

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If I stepped back and looked at them, they were okay, but I was really sad that I couldn't make them as cute as they were in my head.   I used a small star cutter to do the green strawberry top plus a tiny flower plunger cutter to add the little white flowers.  I was trying to up the cute factor so all the flaws wouldn't be so obvious.

Homemade] Strawberry Cake Pop

If the strawberry cake pops were my least favorite thing - the cookies might have been my most favorite.  I'm not a cookie decorator... but I was really proud of how these came out!    I used my favorite rolled sugar cookie dough recipe here and then decorated them with royal icing.

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What I remember most was being in full panic-mode because I had ordered a strawberry cookie cutter for these cookies and it didn't show up in time for me to use it.  I had no idea what I was going to do - but hand-cutting a whole bunch of strawberry cookies did not appeal to me.

I am always in admiration Callye over at Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle and how she uses one cookie cutter to make a totally different thing (like PB&J sandwiches with a dog bone cutter... hello!?).  So I dug through my hundreds of cutters and found an acorn cutter... voila... a strawberry!    I think I actually liked these better than the strawberry cutter that I had on order... WIN!

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Easy Strawberry Cake Pops With Crunch Topping

Do you have any questions about any of these strawberry treats?  If so, leave me a comment!!    Happy FRIDAY ya'll!  

Rose Atwater is the founder and cake decorator behind Rose Bakes. She is baker, cake decorator, author, wife to Richy and homeschooling mommy to 6 wonderful kiddos! Her work has been featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine, Cakes Decor, Pretty Witty Cakes Magazine, Huffington Post and Cake Geek Magazine. Learn more here...

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If the strawberry cake pops were my least favorite thing - the cookies might have been my most favorite.  I'm not a cookie decorator... but I was really proud of how these came out!    I used my favorite rolled sugar cookie dough recipe here and then decorated them with royal icing.

Playing

What I remember most was being in full panic-mode because I had ordered a strawberry cookie cutter for these cookies and it didn't show up in time for me to use it.  I had no idea what I was going to do - but hand-cutting a whole bunch of strawberry cookies did not appeal to me.

I am always in admiration Callye over at Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle and how she uses one cookie cutter to make a totally different thing (like PB&J sandwiches with a dog bone cutter... hello!?).  So I dug through my hundreds of cutters and found an acorn cutter... voila... a strawberry!    I think I actually liked these better than the strawberry cutter that I had on order... WIN!

Chocolate

Easy Strawberry Cake Pops With Crunch Topping

Do you have any questions about any of these strawberry treats?  If so, leave me a comment!!    Happy FRIDAY ya'll!  

Rose Atwater is the founder and cake decorator behind Rose Bakes. She is baker, cake decorator, author, wife to Richy and homeschooling mommy to 6 wonderful kiddos! Her work has been featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine, Cakes Decor, Pretty Witty Cakes Magazine, Huffington Post and Cake Geek Magazine. Learn more here...

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