Strawberry Shortcake Marshmallow Wand- the tasty and fun treat from California Adventure you can now make at home!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
10 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 18Marshmallow Wands
Calories 468kcal
Author Lisa
Ingredients
10ozmarshmallowslarge/normal sized
4cupscrushed shortbread cookies
¼-1/2cupfreeze dried strawberries crumbled
20ozmelting caramels
5tbsheavy cream
18Cake Pop Sticks
Instructions
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Place 3 marshmallows* on each cake pop stick and place on the prepared baking sheets.
10 oz marshmallows, 18 Cake Pop Sticks
Crush the shortcake cookies and mix with the freeze-dried strawberries. A little freeze-dried strawberry goes a long way so start with mixing in ¼ cup, taste, then add more if need be.
Place the caramels in a microwave safe bowl. Add the heavy cream and microwave on 50% power for 2-3 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until caramel is fully melted and the heavy cream is incorporated.
20 oz melting caramels, 5 tbs heavy cream
Dip the marshmallows on the cake pop sticks into the melted caramel.
Scrape off excess caramel and roll/cover in the shortcake strawberry mixture. Set on parchment lined baking sheets and refrigerate for ~10 minutes until caramel is full set up. Keep wands refrigerated and in an airtight container/ ziploc baggie for up to a week.
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Tips and Tricks
Regular marshmallows vary in size based off of the brand. I found that the Jet Puffed brand were large and perfect for 3 marshmallows per wand. If you have smaller marshmallows, place 4 per wand, however you might need another bag of marshmallows to make 18 wands.
I love using Werther’s soft chews caramels- like I did for the Peppermint Wands, but any caramel baking/melting caramels will work.
Using a food processor to crush all the cookies is super easy but be careful to not over process them into dust. I made a batch of my shortbread cookies for this recipe (it's so easy), but you can use store bought cookies as well.
After putting the crumb mixture on the caramel covered marshmallows feel free to redid them in the crumbs to really get a good covering.