Strawberry Shortcake Marshmallow Wands

5 from 2 votes

Strawberry Shortcake Marshmallow Wand- the tasty and fun treat from California Adventure you can now make at home!

Prep Time10

Total Time20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Marshmallow Wands

Calories: 468kcal

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.
4 cups crushed shortbread cookies, ¼-1/2 cup freeze dried strawberries crumbled
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.

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.