Strawberry Basket Cake

Last week, I needed to make a cake and I wanted to do something different, something that wasn't too complicated but still looked impressive. I've seen cakes that were surrounded by Kit-Kat bars and filled in with M&M's and they look great, so I used that idea as my starting point. Since I was making a strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting, what better than a basket of strawberries?


Making the basket was super easy, I just bought a bunch of Pirouettes, trimmed them down a bit so they were about an inch taller than the cake, and stuck them all around the cake.

The handle was a bit tricky and I think it would have been easier if I had made it before frosting the cake (then I could have checked the size of it without getting it all covered in frosting). Basically I cut and "glued" Pirouette pieces together with melted chocolate and put it on the cake. I cut the long pieces of Pirouettes at a 45 degree angle, which helped the pieces stick together.

To finish the cake, I tied ribbon around the Pirouettes to make sure they stayed put and tossed some sliced strawberries on the top. I'm impressed with how it turned out!

Want to know what recipes I used? I found a great from-scratch strawberry cake recipe on Food.com and a yummy strawberry cream cheese frosting recipe on Lemons and Anchovies.