Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cakes

If you’re looking for a retro theme for your party, then making strawberry shortcake birthday cakes should be on the cards. The strawberry shortcake franchise dates back to the 1980s when she came off the greetings cards and onto just about anything that could be sold. Since those heady days, she’s been a bit quieter but is making a good come back in computer game format, and you can still buy plenty of dolls and related merchandise for a strawberry shortcake themed birthday party. The cake is one of the most important parts of the event, so it will be important to get the design right.

Cake Inspiration

Whatever you decide to do, any strawberry shortcake birthday cakes need to have pink as their central theme color, as well as plenty of flowers. Obvious decorations include strawberries and strawberry flavored candy. The actual design of the cake could take many forms depending on your budget, skill level and time available. For example, you could try:

A 3D model of Strawberry Shortcake

3D cakes are notoriously hard to make as cake mixture naturally wants to fill the container that it’s baked in from the bottom up. The simplest way to achieve good-looking 3D strawberry shortcake birthday cakes is to bake each part separately and then connect them with icing or jelly.

First, you’ll need to create a dome shaped mold to pour the cake mixture into to help it keep its shape during the baking.
Strawberry shortcake is always shown as wearing pants, so you can either bake each separately or try making the whole figure in one go.
Either way, situate the feet about half way up the legs, so the bottom half will act as a foundation.
Once you have the body complete, gently push the feet into the top of the dome, which should give you plenty of support. Then ice the cake and decorate using icing tips and candies.

Individual Cupcakes

For quick and easy strawberry shortcake birthday cakes, try making a selection of different flavored cupcakes and then leave the decoration to your party guests. These will include things like different colored icing, strawberries and other fruit for decoration and the usual selection of sprinkles and edible sparkles for the final touches. This can be a great activity to do at the start of the party to get everyone talking and involved, and you can either ask each child to make their own cake or decorate one for someone else.

Real Strawberry Shortcake

Actually make strawberry shortcake, and what better way to bring the strawberry shortcake theme to life? It’s very simple to make to the point where you could get your child to help make it before the party. You need to mix flour, shortening, sugar, an egg and milk together and bake the whole mixture until it takes on a biscuit feel. Serve with whipped cream and sliced strawberries. It can be eaten warm or cold, and also goes well with just about any flavor of ice cream.

The main thing to bear in mind when you’re looking into strawberry shortcake birthday cakes is to let your imagination go wild. The more effort that you put in, the more your child will appreciate the cake and the better it will seem to taste.

It can also be a good opportunity to get your child involved with cooking and baking, as the suggested recipes are easy to make. This will also give them a sense of control and responsibility over their birthday party, and also helps to build up their excitement about the big day.

You can also try a strawberry flavored cake with strawberry frosting.

More Strawberry Shortcake Decorating Ideas

Use a cake topper, cake decorating kit or add a Strawberry Shortcake and Friends doll to a decorated cake.

Use an edible cake image.

Find a coloring page or image of Strawberry Shortcake and create a buttercream transfer or learn how to use a cake decorating pattern with your image.

Use the Wilton Strawberry Shortcake Pan and decorate per their instructions.

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