1980 Strawberry Shortcake Doll House

During the 1980s, Strawberry Shortcake became a huge fad. The 1980 Strawberry Shortcake doll house was extremely popular with little girls. The house was three floors. The first floor included a kitchen and a dinning room/living room. The second floor included a bathroom and bedroom. The top floor was the attic. The house included a porch swing, mailbox, chimney, and skylight.

The original design of Strawberry Shortcake and her cat Custard was done in 1977 by Muriel Fahrion during her time as a greeting card illustrator at American Greetings' Juvenile & Humorous card department. After the idea was presented to Bernie Loomis of General Mills and became a licensing entity, Fahrion designed a subsequent thirty-two characters for Those Characters From Cleveland.



The Strawberry Shortcake line of characters each had their own fruity or dessert-themed name with clothing to match, and they each had a dessert- or fruit-named pet. Like the Strawberry Shortcake doll, all the other characters' dolls had hair scented to match their dessert theme. The characters lived and played in a magical world known as Strawberryland.

The Strawberry shortcake house is now a real collectors item. There are thousands of fans worldwide who collect the memorabilia and would love to get their hands on one of these.