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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Annie, I love the names and the dishes!! For that dessert how about cupcakes stuffed with pudding and frosted with different pastel colors. Kinda ties in Easter colors and "cake" for the title. Just my

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
How about something fun and easy call it

"Splitsville"

make banana splits with all the trimmings, let everone make their own banana splits

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
That is a really cute idea, Maris!!!

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
My nieces and nephew love when we make our Beach Cake. We make a sheet cake, decorate with blue frosting for the ocean, graham cracker crumbs for the sand, and use Teddy Grahams as our people. Using frosting, we put bikinis on them and draw floats, beach towels, and a shark fin in the water. It may be more involved than the time you have allotted, but the kids really get into it and love eating it.

Your ideas are so creative!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
that is another great idea! Beach.
do you have any specific directions.
i keep telling the kids 'if you can read, you can cook' so being involved like that isn't out of the running.
I wonder if you could do individual versions?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Hehe, Beachcomber, I read that as "beach ball cake" and as I was sitting here reading the directions I kept thinking....I don't get it, where's the beach ball??????

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Just make a sheet cake following the box instructions. I bet it would work better if you had individual little cakes. Cutting a big one into smaller pieces would make them too messy to frost, but maybe bake them in those mini loaf pans?

Dye your frosting blue and cover the entire cake. Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs along one end to make a beach. Make little swirlies in the ocean part to make waves.

We use the tubes of frosting that you can buy in the grocery store for decorating the rest of the cake. The kids could share the tubes since there is alot of frosting in each tube. Using the tube and the regular frosting tip, frost little bikinis (or shorts for the boys) on the Teddy Grahams. We just do a stripe across their bustline and a little V for the bottoms.

We use several different colors and put stripes down to create the floats in the water and beach towels on the sand. Stick your decorated Teddy Graham on each one.

Also, we get those drink umbrellas and put those up on the beach next to the towels.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
LOL Wargod, now making a beach ball cake would be an all day affair with NO kids involved!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL I was thinking that, but I'm not that much of a cook so I tend to do things with them that are pretty easy (decorating sugar cookies!)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I cant wait to see the recipes, cute names!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Thanks ya'll for the positive feedback!
Beach, I wonder how I could make them individual sized? Maybe those frozen pound cakes and cut them horizontallly?

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
ahem. Annie, I had a suggestion upthread about individual "cakes".

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
you mean about cupcakes, twinkie?
i think i might need something a little more detailed. these kids are sharp!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Here's the whole class list. (we have done 1-3)

Cooking CESIT

1. If you give a pig a pancake
Homemade pancakes

2. It’s the Icing on the Cake
Different types of from scratch icing

3. Who says Lasagna is hard?
Lasagna Casserole

4. Let's Rock & Roll
Several different types of roll ups

5. When Life Gives you Lemons
Homemade lemonade
Lemonade fruit dip
Lemon muffins

6. Chinese Italian??
Ravioli made from won ton wrappers

7. Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social
Ice cream in a bag & baked apples

8. Look ma, no dishes!
Foil packed dinners

9. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
Ham & Cheese Bisquick biscuits
Omelets in a bag

10. There's No Place Like Home
Mashed Potatoes & Meatloaf

11. Who needs KFC?!
Chicken fingers & corn on the cob

12. Let them Eat Cake!
Bunny in the yard cake *


figured out what i am going to do for the last class after looking at a bunch of websites and combining a bunch of ideas! LOL

*take a frozen pound cake and cut it in half horizontally. that's the base.
ice it with green icing
put graham crackers all the way around the sides, that's the fence
take one cup cake, slice the very top off to make it level, then slice in half (end up with two circles)
that's the head and body of the bunny
put in center of the 'yard'.
use the left over cup cake to make ears
ice with white icing
use gum drops and licorice for face.

how does that sound?

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
My mom used to make a bunny cake for us when we were kids .... great idea Texannie!!

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
That sounds really cute! I will have to try that for Easter.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i found these...aren't they cute?!

http://www.alcoa.com/reynoldskitchens/en/recipes/recipe_search.asp?Step=ShowRecipe&RecipeID=941

Jewels
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09-23-2000

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jewels a private message Print Post    
They have some really cute ones here too....

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/easter_recipes_ms/

Annie, when you are done you need to post your recipes!!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
those are cute!!

i will be happy to.

now i am 2nd guessing on of the lessons.
Instead of making wraps in Let's Rock n' Roll, i found a recipe for eggrolls and another one for fortune cookies.

or
can have a lesson called "Gimme some dough man"
and make lavash bread, pretzels and buiscuts from scratch.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Save all those good ideas, Annie. I think you'll be asked back!