Strawberry Shortcake: Baby Takes the Cake Blue Diamond Edition

## Summary

Apple Dumplin’ wants to help Strawberry & her Friends with the baking. But Dumplin’s just a little too little to be much help. In fact, she ends up making a pretty big mess of things. Strawberry’s friends think she’s too much of a baby – maybe she should just lay down for a nap? Her feelings hurt, Apple Dumplin’ does lay down and promptly falls asleep. She dreams that she’s a little bigger and Strawberry and her Friends are now the little babies! Apple Dumplin’ is in charge now! But the babies turn out to be quite a handful, and Dumplin's happy dream escalates into a sad nightmare and quickly learns a lesson about learning how to handle emotions, especially sadness.

## Plot

Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are getting ready to make something. They're carrying boxes and plates, but Apple Dumplin knocks them over! Apple Dumplin just wants to help Strawberry, but she says she's a little too "little". Apple Dumplin just sat and watched. Strawberry Shortcake goes over the rules of cooking and baking, such as washing your hands, asking a grown-up, reading the whole paragraphs, measuring carefully, washing fruits and vegetables, following every single step of the recipe, and other important cooking and baking hacks. When she's done explaining the rules, all the big girls go and wash their hands. Afterwards, Apple Dumplin still wants to help, but Angel says she's not ready yet. Strawberry Shortcake says Apple can help with the wax paper, but Apple Dumplin knocks things over and wastes the paper and the time, and makes a big mess! Then the girls decide she goes somewhere else, to watch, to take a nap, and they won't even let her speak up for herself because they think she's too much of a baby. Apple Dumplin says she's not a baby, and there's lots that she can do if they let her. Apple Dumplin ends up falling asleep and has a dream that she's older, but all other girls are babies, and Pearl and Sapphire are there, too! It's up to Apple Dumplin to take care of the babies. Apple Dumplin gathers them over and tells them to do what she says, and she says they're going to bake a cake. Apple Dumplin got a bowl of berries from the fridge, but something smells terrible. Oh, Baby Ginger Snap! It was coming from Ginger Snap's dirty diaper! Apple Dumplin changed it and then the babies started making a mess in the kitchen! Apple, Pearl and Sapphire were trying to stop the babies, and Apple Dumplin finally gets them to sit on the couch. Just as she was about to cook, the babies start making a mess again! Apple Dumplin has had enough. She yelled, "That's it No more, no more, no more! You babies cannot help Apple Dumplin!" Then, the babies, Sapphire and pearl all start to cry, this makes Apple Dumplin cry. They also keep crying and crying and crying, and the whole room has turned blue, and outside, Blue Diamond is crying as well! Meanwhile, in real life, Strawberry Shortcake heard Apple Dumplin crying in her sleep, and woke her up. Strawberry said, "What's the matter?" Apple Dumplin just screamed and ran out of the house, crying like a baby. She ran and ran as fast as she could, all the way to where not even a baby could find her, then she yells, "CURSE YOU, BABIES!! IF IT WASN'T FOR BLUE DIAMOND, I WOULDN'T OF WAKEN UP FROM MY DREAM!!!" Then she kept on crying and screaming, and eventually someone found her. It was a boy, who was only three years older than her. The boy asked, "Why are you crying?" Apple Dumplin yelled, "I HAD A DREAM THAT I WAS OLDER THAN MY SISTER AND HER FRIENDS, AND THEY WERE ALL BABIES, AND THEN WHEN I TOLD THEM THEY COULDN'T HELP ME, WE ALL CRIED LIKE BLUE DIAMONDS!!!" The boy said, "I had a dream like that when I was your age. My older sister told me to think of other things, so the thing you just dreamed up doesn't bother you." Apple Dumplin thanked the boy for advice and they introduced each other before they said goodbye. Apple Dumplin ran back the way she came, and Strawberry Shortcake and her friends found her! When they got back to Strawberry's house, they made ice cream sandwiches! Of course, Strawberry Shortcake also made pet treats.

## Gallery

Even Blue Diamond got sad when she heard that the Babies couldn't help Apple Dumplin.Audio.