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Reality TVClubHouse Discussions: General Discussions ARCHIVES: August 2009 ~ December 2009: Cooking Corner: Cakes, confections, cookies, etc.: Archive through September 27, 2009 users admin

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Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
pies would have been easier, you use Pillsbury pre done crusts and just fill with fruit from a jar, and put another Pillsbury crust on top. VOILA done. would have taken an hour to do all of them in prep time, and just would have had to bake.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I think pies would have been easier only because I'd have bought Mrs. Smith's frozen pies and "home-baked" them.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
The Pillsbury Dough Boy is my secret weapon in the baking dept. And when all else fails, there's always Sara Lee!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
LOL, Merrysea, I too have been wondering why we shouldn't use the "semi-homemade" method of frozen pies, or sheetcake from Safeway (I would add some decorations).

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 1:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I am anxiously awaiting the final installment of "Cakes, Coconut and Colossus" or " I Made 10 Diddlydamn Cakes For The 1st & Final Time"

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Or "On to Pie Heaven."

Or "Midwest Cake Fest Takes Deadly Turn"

Or "Take This Cake and Cram It"

Or ...

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
My MIL loves coconut cake, and every year I must bake her this special coconut cake recipe she loves. I think she is lucky she does not have nuts to be wrung.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
"Shutting the cake/pie hole"

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
You ladies are cracking me up - and I have a cold that makes laughing this hard a cough-attack!! You all should be professional "Title Creators."

Now - when do we get the last installment???

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
A couple of days have passed and no update from Goddessatlaw.

Did things take a terrible turn and Colossus hasten her demise by stuffing her full of coconut 'til she no longer breathes? Or pull a Hansel and Gretel move and shove her into the oven!? I hope not. Perhaps she made it to that lovely beach and has no internet connection or has been too drunk from lovely alcoholic Island drinks (sans coconut) and warm tropical breezes to post.

Methinks I will google bizarre cake/fish fry accident/events/murder/sucides.


Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Nah. The doctors just had a hard time extracting his ding-ding from the electric mixer.

I just left the last night of the fish fry with what's left of my sanity. I have a whole new respect for lunch ladies. The girl in charge of the kitchen brought in her boss (cafeteria manager), and I swear I never saw one person create so much food in so little time all by her lonesome. Did you know they make pre-cooked and peeled eggs in big bags for deviled eggs? She made deviled eggs for a thousand people in an hour. By herself.

The cakes frosted up perfectly, and for pete's sake I let Colossus coconut a white cake and some frosted brownies. They were purchased immediately and people were demanding more. Go figure. The ladies came through with beaucoup beautiful pies, decorated with cutout stars and whatnot. PTL I didn't attempt to throw a pie in there myself, my self-esteem would have been in the crapper. The sprinkled cakes were a big hit with the kids and we had plenty because they had a child identification program administered by the local popo.

Have I told you what a joy it is to see a firetruck packed with firemen in their overalls and boots pull up, park and pile into the cafeteria? My SIL was there with her grandchildren and I thought she was going to die of happiness.

Much merriment was made of Colossus taking photographs of my pathetic creations. I told everyone how much fun my girlfriends were having at the notion of me baking anything.

Aaannnnddddd . . .. here they are - the cakewrecks of the week:



I'm pointing to Colossus' fabulous coconut creation. Him so proud!! (Notice the bandage on my finger - I never enter a kitchen where I don't leave wounded.)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I want to thank each and every one of you for sticking with me through this ordeal, which would have been unmanageable without your advice and encouragement. It wouldn't seem that baking cakes would be such a source of consternation, but you all know me well enough that you shouldn't be surprised that something so miniscule was also so out of my scope of reference that I enlarged it to Defcon 1. So again, my humble thanks and a huge bow to all on here who create beautiful confections for love and for profit!

I have to pick a project for next year when I'm goddess of the lodge, and I promise you that project will not be cooking. I have decided to interview and publish in the lodge paper the remembrances of the military veterans at the lodge (we still have a number of WWII veterans, as well as veterans of Korea and Vietnam). I'm looking forward to creating written histories of these fine men both for the lodge and for their families to keep forever.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
And Landi, pies would have definitely been easier AND cheaper. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that Aldi's sold deep dish pies for $2.89 each until AFTER the cake-baking escapade.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
your cakes look great!!!!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Tex, you are the soul of kindness. Care for some leftover sprinkles?

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Weiner, can I interest you in some post-wholesale coconut? Your MIL must do that just to torture you, you could always put a big, fat coconut right in the middle of her otherwise pure white cake and tell her to deal.

On the otherhand, no one ever gave my father a better present than my SIL - she presented him with a glass pie pan at Christmas and gave him 12 coupons for him to present to her monthly (with glass pie pan) thereafter, with a request for a specific pie for her to bake and deliver. He showed up on her doorstep every month, they had a visit and she presented him with his pie of choice within the week and they had another visit. He hoarded his pies, did not share, and loved every minute he got to spend with her and my brother.

You are a terrific Son-in-law. I am pretty sure she knows this.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
GAL, I gotta agree with Annie. Your cakes look great. You did yourself proud and you did it all without shedding Colossus's blood. You go, girl!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
LOL GAL, I would be happy to have your sprinkles!
I have chaired many a bake sale (between church and my kids' schools) and those are right up there with our best sellers!!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 9:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I was thinking that finger was awfully suspicious looking. Glad to know the girth is a bandage.

Sticking to writing for next year's contribution sounds like the way to go.

Of course, you could always write up a chronicle of this year's contribution, titled:

"Sprinkles Cure All Ills and Other Little Known Baking Secrets"

or

"Crumb Coats Won't Keep a Gal Warm"

or

"Coconut Tricks and the Baking Chicks Who Turn Them"

or

...

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Well done GAL, you can walk proudly amongst the other wimmin of the fish fry league.
Thanks for the pictures, you did a good job with the frosting, nice swirls.

I am pleased to know that your story ends happily ever after. It was fun for us at TVClubhouse.

I feel remiss that I did not suggest that you simply make Rice Krispie Treats. The easiest thing in the world and the 1st to go at any bake sale or potluck event. Throw in a few M & M's or drizzle some chocolate or peanut butter and you are gold.

A person can never have too many sprinkles. I had my 3 yr old nephew and 2 yr old niece here a couple weeks ago and decided that we would make a cake. 1st time 2 yr old really participated. Nephew wanted to decorate with sprinkles and I said I would see if I had any and he piped up right away saying "The sprinkles are in that cupboard over there." He is my little baking buddy and he remembers.

BTW, you do know that Colossus sent in those coconut ringers don't you?


Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
New book title:

"Coconut Ringers and Their Ilk"

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Heh, funny you should mention that Sugar, one of the ladies at lodge brought in some pies and a huge pan of rice krispie treats for the workers. The ladies in the pie room let us all have what we wanted, then cut up the rest of the krispie treats to sell. They were GONE in no time flat. Who knew teh krispies were such a prized item?

"Coconut Ringers and Their Ilk." I like it, I'm going to shove it where the sun doesn't shine as soon as he wakes up from his post-fry coma.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
hello dollies are even easier and Colossus can have his treasured coconut!! (and the coconut is actually tasty in this)

Hello Dolly Bars
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups crushed cinnamon graham crackers (about 8 graham crackers)
2 cups of chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups of shredded coconut
1 1/2 cups of chopped pecans
1 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup of butter

Method:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Melt the butter in a saucepan.
Pour melted butter into an 11x7 or 8x8 cake pan.
Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs into pan, and mix well with melted butter to form a crust.
Layer on top of graham-cracker crust chocolate chips, coconut and pecans.
Evenly pour sweetened condensed milk over everything.
Bake in oven for 25 to 30 minutes, top should be light brown.
Let cool in pan for at least half an hour, cut into bars and serve.

Variations: Some recipes use butterscotch and chocolate chips. Likewise, you can use walnuts or any other nut you like as well. I used cinnamon graham crackers because that's what I had in my pantry, and while plain graham crackers are more traditional, I thought the cinnamon added a nice touch.



Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I've always done the Hello Dollys with 2 different chips. Either butterscotch and chocolate or Reese's and chocolate. So yummy.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 8:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Those were 7-layer bars in our house - but made w/PB chips and choc. chips and topped w/peanuts, not pecans. It's the one and only way I ever eat coconut and LOVE it! :-)