Strawberry Snake

Sooooo we did it! We made the Strawberry Shortcake Snake and it was sooo much fun!

We started out with a box of Driscoll's stawberries

A 16 Oz Carton of Whipped Cream

2 Loaves of Angel Food Cake

And an Egg Slicer, to slice the strawberries evenly

To Make the snakes, you must slice 3/4 of the box of strawberries.  Putting them in an egg slicer like the one pictured below, saves so much time, and they look really good too!  Once all of the strawberries were sliced, I placed them in a mixing bowl, and poured in maybe a 1/2 a cup of powdered sugar, and stirred.  Once the berries were evenly coated in sugar I placed them in the refrigerator to rest.

The next step is to slice the angel food cake

I sliced the cake in half with a cake slicer - about an inch from the bottom of the cake.

This gives me big slices of cake, when put back together they resemble a cake sandwich.

Once we sliced the loaf of cake into a sandwich style half,

we sliced it into strips and cut off all of the outside crust.

Then placed the strips onto a platter, in a zig zag shape, similar to a snake.

 This is where the super fun part comes in, with the kiddos. : )

WHIPPED CREAM!  LOTS OF IT! BE BRAVE, IT DOES COME OFF.

My Son Payton was quite generous with each layer of whip cream he put on the cake.

Next we layered the strawberries down the "back" of the snake.  Payton had a lot of fun with this!! 

Then we put the snake "head" on....put two toothpicks in the widest part of the strawberry leaving the bigger part of the toothpick sticking out.  Poke the rest of the toothpick into the cake until the head is attached and no toothpicks are sticking out of the strawberry. 

We used blue cookie frosting to make dots for the eyes :)

Then we finished putting the rest of the strawberries along the snakes back

THE FINISHED SNAKE

IT WAS YUMMMYYYYY

I just love to spend Saturdays with my son.  I'm thinking it would be fun to start a tradition of cooking at least once a weekend or every two weeks with him on  Saturdays!!

Happy Cooking with your kiddos!!