Strawberry Shortcake's Cooking Fun

by Michael J. Smollin

A colorful collection of tasty recipes for very young cooks and their grown-up assistants presents creative snack-and party-time ideas featuring wholesome foods

Genres: Cookbooks, Childrens, Picture Books, Cooking

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

My best friend and I adored Strawberry Shortcake dolls so we also like this book. It seemed so cool to be able to "cook." in actuality, we were simply making things like rolled-up peanut butter and banana sandwiches but it seemed so grown-up at the time.

[Dominique Liongson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A kids' cookbook that is fun to look at as well. I recall it has baking, and no oven/stove required, refrigeration, freezing, and other fun with food preparation to decorate a Christmas tree with. Perfect as a child's first cookbook or a great resource book for bigger kids.

[Katrina Bleyl · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter loved reading this book with me. So many fun and cute recipes.

[Shelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book had such good reviews on amazon i wanted to like it. I was excited to get it for my daughter but, when it came it was horrible! The pictures aren't great but, even when i overlooked that the recipes were just not up to snuff. It was so bad i just threw it away (i hate to throw stuff away). I am still searching for a good 5 yr old kids cookbook. i remember good cookbooks from when i was a kid. ones with some pictures and cuteness but, real recipes and not just cut your sandwich with a cookie cutter recipes. i don't remember their names...it irritates me.

[Robert]

This cookbook is reminiscent of some cookbooks I had when I was a boy. my mother was very good at making fun food, particularly rectangular cakes that are cut to form other things. There's a clown cake here. There are lots of sandwiches with different faces and Christmas ornaments too.

Not bad for a children's cookbook. All the images are illustrations; there are no photographs.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. I adored Strawberry Shortcake and loved "cooking". If I recall correctly this book has a lot of cute, simple recipes with lots of lovely drawings and characters.

[Rusty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a delightful children's cookbook. It has full color, easy to follow descriptions and directions. My children loved this book.

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute book! It is full of healthy recipes children can make with minimal help from adults.

[Aneesa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't remember if I actually made any of these recipes but I read it a million times.

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think I had this book when I was a kid. I came across another copy, and decided to buy it just for the nostalgia.

There are cute illustrations of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends throughout, but there's very little connection between the characters and the content. There's a supplemental line here or there, but without those illustrations, this would be an ordinary kid's food book.

There aren't any recipes in this. It's just ideas for creative things to do with food--making faces on sandwiches, stacking cheese and crackers to make a tower, freezing colored soda to make colorful ice cubes, cutting cake and pineapple in shapes and arranging them to look like a clown, etc. this is rather disappointing considering the characters are all food themed. They could have made it cutting cake in cubes and adding strawberries and vanilla ice cream to make Strawberry Shortcake's Strawberry Shortcake. Or Huckleberry Pie's favorite peanut butter and banana sandwich. I wonder if they didn't just take an existing text and add illustrations to it to capitalize on the SS craze.

The only Strawberry Shortcake "recipe" consists of large pictures of the cat and dog from the series. You're supposed to trace the pictures, use a pin to trace the design on cookie dough with dots, cut out the shape, and paint it with egg whites mixed with food coloring. It doesn't specify before or after cooking, nor is there a recipe for the dough. It didn't look like it would be worth the effort.

Overall, a pretty disappointing book. I guess I know why I didn't keep my childhood copy.