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Posted by: Glorious kind and always on time (
 uberjackalope) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:08 pm (UTC)
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What a cool idea! I love it. The "flames" look awesome, and the cake sounds soooo yummy!
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:33 pm (UTC)
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It was supposed to be a boiled can of sweetened condensed milk, but the first time I made it, I didn't boil it, I just put it into a crockpot water bath overnight and it was delicious. I tried to do this one on higher heat and less time, and it simply didn't completely caramelize fast enough for me to get the cake done on time so I just poured it on and started frosting. It still tasted good however.
Here are some other methods that I should have done:
http://www.recipelink.com/mf/0/4029
http://www.recipesource.com/side-di
It is quite delicious when done right!
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Posted by: io sono affamata (
chrissyc13) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 06:11 pm (UTC)
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that's just what I was thinking. I hate to rip it off but....I'm gonna hehe
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 06:52 pm (UTC)
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ha ha, well, it's certainly not patent-pending! And it's so simple to do, particularly as I have no frosting/piping skills myself.
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Posted by: io sono affamata (
chrissyc13) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 07:24 pm (UTC)
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it's so adorable. My frosting skills are limited as well. And the boys have a camping trip next weekend. For their meeting before the camping trip this would be so awesome.
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Posted by: Liz (
mmemaraschino) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:25 pm (UTC)
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Ha!! That is awesome, and very creative! :)
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC)
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Thanks! I have to admit, I got the idea from somewhere else (can't find link, had it saved as pdf forever), but they used pretzels instead of the Pirouettes, yellow cake instead of chocolate, etc.
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Posted by: divinerose (
divinerose) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:43 pm (UTC)
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That cake is awesome! Would you mind passing along the pdf?
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:57 pm (UTC)
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I've updated the post with it!
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Posted by: Liz (
mmemaraschino) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 06:03 pm (UTC)
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Hey, all great ideas are inspired from something! I've had so many thoughts of amazing cake ideas, and then searching cakecentral...yep, it's already been done. Doesn't discourage me though, because chances are- if *I* haven't seen it in person, most of the people seeing it won't have either. And it's turned out that way every time so far! :)
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Posted by: Photosprout (
photosprout) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 11:09 pm (UTC)
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Heh heh. There are no new shapes, no new songs, etc. etc.
(but don't let that keep you from trying...)
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Posted by: pixel (
pixelation) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC)
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Wow! One of the more creative cakes I've seen. :) Nicely done!
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:35 pm (UTC)
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Thanks! It was terribly simple to put together!
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Posted by: ali (
dreamwell_ali) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:47 pm (UTC)
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that is awesome! I am going to have to make one of these for our next camping trip!
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Posted by: Allie (
onlyperfectly) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:51 pm (UTC)
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I love this, so clever!
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Posted by: Charlene (
Posted at: April 14th, 2008 05:53 pm (UTC)
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Yuuuuummmm, that looks so good!
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Posted by: Laura Cathrine (
lauracathrine) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 06:30 pm (UTC)
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Fantastic.
I like your version better than the sample pic.
Great job!
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
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Thank you! I think next time I'll try to get the flames thinner, and wispier, but I was multi-tasking as I made them, and kind of skipped the step of crushing the candy!
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Posted by: io sono affamata (
chrissyc13) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 03:56 pm (UTC)
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I did my candy last night and I'm putting the cake together tonight. The candy came out really thin and kind of shattered all over. I didn't get bigger pieces like you have but I'll make it work. I couldn't find those cookies but my kid gave me the brilliant idea of those new cereal straws in Coco Puffs (brown) woo hoo!
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Posted by: lovmelovmycats (
lovmelovmycats) Posted at: April 14th, 2008 10:55 pm (UTC)
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I second this; yours rocks!
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Posted by: Princess Consuela Banana Hammock (
smartee_pants) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
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Um I totally love this and I can't wait to go camping. :)
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Posted by: Sarah (
sarahk_xoxo) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 03:51 am (UTC)
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Oh that is sooo cute! I wish my prof didn't have to cancel his Algonquin park lecture this would have been PERFECT!
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Posted by: Abby (
bethesurrealist) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 04:11 am (UTC)
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The flames look like stained glass.
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Posted by: Anam Cara (
anam_cara_) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 04:14 am (UTC)
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Yes- you can use the same method to make 'stained glass windows' in cookies. I used to do that with my grandma- cut out your cookie, then use a smaller cutter to cut out a small shape out of the middle, fill with chunks of hard candy and bake.
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Posted by: briana (
jurkface) Posted at: April 15th, 2008 11:19 pm (UTC)
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OMG! You couldn't have posted this at a better time! my boyfriend takes his physical test to get into the FDNY tomorrow and for months hes been eating soo helthy and I've been wanting to make him some kind of fire related cake to celebrate getting in. It looks awesome and its very inspirational to what I want to do.
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I made my dad a birthday cake this weekend...
Triple fudge cake mix
Caramel filling (intended, but caramel didn't turn out quite right, so it was more of a cream filling)
Fudge ganache frosting
Pirouette cookies "sticks"
Melted butterscotch and cinnamon hard candies "flames"
Edited to ADD:
This is where I got the idea-