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Here's the thing. I need to bake a cake for the school's baked good auction. It needs to be easy and wallet friendly, it needs to sound delicious as it is an auction, you dig? It needs to travel well as it will be wrapped up, and here's the kicker, it must require NO refrigeration.
Ideas? Cuz I'm at a loss.
highwayman
9/28/06, 08:30pm
Go to Cosco...
An orange cake with a slim layer of orange or mandarin jelly on top would be nice. I love those :D
I was thinking of a butterscotch pudding bundt cake with a rum glaze? Does that sound...well, biddable?
Yeah it does, even thou I don't know what the hell that is.
tarte au citron .... sounds good, tastes better and (allegedly) is easy to make ...
do i get a badge or somet' ?
x
Professur
9/28/06, 09:28pm
How willing are you to experiment? Try this
12 ice cream cone cakes. Take ice cream cones, and pour a basic white cake mix into them like cupcakes. Bake like cupcakes, and ice them to look like ice cream when done. They leave the table so fast your head'll spin.
A.B.Normal
9/28/06, 11:32pm
Go to Cosco...
Its Costco :hmm:
Dude...no.
:confused: :crying3:
highwayman
9/29/06, 01:02am
Its Costco :hmm:
:confused: :crying3:
Whatever webster...
A.B.Normal
9/29/06, 01:07am
Whatever webster...
employee actually :P and I in no way resemble a small African American child.
How willing are you to experiment? Try this
12 ice cream cone cakes. Take ice cream cones, and pour a basic white cake mix into them like cupcakes. Bake like cupcakes, and ice them to look like ice cream when done. They leave the table so fast your head'll spin.
Neat idea but the cake isn't being consumed there. The folks that have the winning bid take it home...kinda like an ebay cakewalk without the shipping costs....and no walking...and no ebay...but you get the point.
Kitty Litter Cake (http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/1997/kitty.html)
There's a thought.
Yeah...you know I thought about that but do you think you would bid on one of those if it was wrapped up and you couldn't really see it?
Professur
9/29/06, 09:34am
Trust me, Tonks. You take some stiff cardboard, and make a holed tray to hold the dozen upright, and people will fight for them.
Hmm....I could tape a box shut, flip it over, punch the holes, attach wooden chopsticks to the corners, paint the setup with halloween colored tempura paints, let dry, and then put in the decorated cone cakes. Cover it with saran and be done.
How do you bake these things? In muffin tins?
Professur
9/29/06, 10:37am
If you're terribly worried about them falling over, but use the flat bottomed cones and jsut line them up on a cookie sheet.
highwayman
9/29/06, 11:50am
My costco idea is alot easier..
Have you thought about some version of angel food cake? A lot of options at a low cost...
Costco cakes taste like shit...no offense Wade.
I just got off the phone with the lady in charge of the bake sale. It is now a bake sale and not an auction. They would like me to bring a cake or pie but they'll take what they can get. I'll bake either the bundt cake or the ice cream cones and maybe some magic bars wrapped 3 to a package.
Professur
9/29/06, 12:01pm
Jsut one word of caution. If you make the cones, you'll be expected to produce them every time a bake sale comes along ....
There are worse things. The recipe sounds easy.
Professur
9/29/06, 12:44pm
Clean up's even easier. The kids eat the baking dish.
Professur
9/29/06, 12:47pm
Do you have an icing bag or one of those syringes with the fancy tips? Makes the icing look like soft serve. If you really want to go overboard, you might be able to pull off some kind of chocolate dip too. Not to sure about that tho. Mum never tried it.
Professur
9/29/06, 12:48pm
Tip from Kat2220: put the frosting in the mixer for a couple of minutes to ship it up lighter. It'll go further, and add less sugar per cone. It'll also lick off more like icecream.
Dude...I want this to be way easy...I'm actually thinking of the bundt cake for the sale and making the cones for a Daisy Troop party and letting the girls decorate their own cone.
A.B.Normal
9/29/06, 01:00pm
Costco cakes taste like shit...no offense Wade.
I just got off the phone with the lady in charge of the bake sale. It is now a bake sale and not an auction. They would like me to bring a cake or pie but they'll take what they can get. I'll bake either the bundt cake or the ice cream cones and maybe some magic bars wrapped 3 to a package.
I like the Carrot and Black Forest ,but the White cakes ,are well,White cakes and therefor rather bland IMO .Most store bought cakes have an oily texture ,I've found the cakes from work aren't(not that the carrot and BF use that type of icing.)but its what makes the White ckaes better than other store bought IMO.Homemade is still definately the way to go as you can control the ingredients and ensure whats in there in case anyone has special food concerns(not that you'd be familiar with that issue :biker: *it kinda looks like him ,doesn't it)
I find the same oily texture in store bought cakes and at the same time the cake itself seems drier- harder crumbs...so oily and dry instead of moist like a homemade or even a boxed mix baked at home.
Professur
9/29/06, 01:08pm
Dude...I want this to be way easy...I'm actually thinking of the bundt cake for the sale and making the cones for a Daisy Troop party and letting the girls decorate their own cone.
dudette, if it got any easier than this, it would do the dishes on it's own. If there's more than 20 minutes actually work time involved, you're micromanaging it.
Bundt cake pans have all those annoying ripples to clean.
Mine cleans up easy. Anyway, I definitely want to do it for Daisies whether or not I do it for the sale.
I have a good recipe for kahlua "cake" ... maybe it's more like a bread since you bake it in one of those loafpans ... kahlua and vodka is part of the recipe. would that do for a school auction?
or am i replying too late anyway and the auction happened already?
It's this weekend :D
Feel free to post the recipe but I despise vodka and never have it in the house...how much does it call for? Would one of those minis be enough?
Gato_Solo
10/02/06, 04:04pm
It's this weekend :D
Feel free to post the recipe but I despise vodka and never have it in the house...how much does it call for? Would one of those minis be enough?
You can always substitute Soju (http://landofsoju.netfirms.com/soju.htm)...:shrug:
Gato_Solo
10/02/06, 04:47pm
You buying?
Me? Heavens no! I spent 12 months in "The Land of the Morning Calm", and have lost the taste for Soju. :crap:
Well, the stuff ain't readily available at my local package store ;)
Gato_Solo
10/02/06, 05:01pm
Well, the stuff ain't readily available at my local package store ;)
Get someone to buy it for you at the Class VI...You've probably got some favors still unused.
(The Class VI here at CHS doesn't have it...)
Dude, I can't imagine where the closest class VI even is let alone know someone who could shop there.
pretty-kerry
10/02/08, 02:17am
I would like to suggest brownies, slice it to cubes and you may wrap it by colored plastics which will look like square candies. Brownies are quite similar with butterscotch but a lot easier I think.
2 year old thread but thanks.
Brownies are a seperate category BTW. I was responsible for a cake. I think I went with a spice cake with a Myers rum glaze.
Professur
10/02/08, 09:22am
I'm crushed
Hey, thin mint Girl guide cookies are in.
I made your recipe for something...I don't recall what. Birthday? Scouts? It did well!
paul_valaru
10/02/08, 10:53am
I'm crushed
Hey, thin mint Girl guide cookies are in.
WHERE!?!?!?!?!?!
I needs me fix
(they need a 12 step program for those)
I am not a fan of the thin mints...last spring however I had more than my fill of the choco and vanilla sandwich ones. A lady at our sister company was selling them for her daughter (their offices is one floor above ours) and someone from our office constantly had a box on the go being shared between the office. That was a sugar filled couple weeks...
We begin selling on January 5th. I will be happy to take orders at that time.
Professur
10/02/08, 02:18pm
It was guides, and it went over like a bomb.
Actually, it was the Pre-K class :D
http://www.otcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23936&highlight=cake+cones
Professur
10/02/08, 04:36pm
Smartass. Don't you have a building to fall off or summat?
I just finished mixing up 2 tubs of green frosting for a 1st grade landform cookie project...I used to be so cool.
Smartass. Don't you have a building to fall off or summat?
I don't get to ride swingstages much anymore...we're not doing any wall work here in Calgary :(
That brownies wrapped to look like candies idea is brilliant!
Professur
10/03/08, 09:34am
I don't get to ride swingstages much anymore...we're not doing any wall work here in Calgary :(
So I don't get to look forward to a email telling of your tragic demise after a plunge from hundreds of feet up? I'll try and contain my dismay.
So I don't get to look forward to a email telling of your tragic demise after a plunge from hundreds of feet up? I'll try and contain my dismay.
I still walk on roofs...
When on a stage I wear a harness, them things are meant to save lives ya know. Didn't you see the story from the states a few months ago when the stage cable broke and the 3 guys were hanging in their harnesses? The fire department rescued them and they're all alive and well.
WHERE!?!?!?!?!?!
I needs me fix
(they need a 12 step program for those)
1. Swear you won't eat any this year.
2. Throw the cellophane sleeve in the trash and try to look innocent when asked where a whole sleeve of Thin Mints went.
3. hide the box under other trash and try to look innocent when asked if you know where the cookies are.
4. Repeat.
Why do you need twelve steps? Four works just fine.
1. Swear you won't eat any this year.
2. Throw the cellophane sleeve in the trash and try to look innocent when asked where a whole sleeve of Thin Mints went.
3. hide the box under other trash and try to look innocent when asked if you know where the cookies are.
4. Repeat.
Why do you need twelve steps? Four works just fine.
House of four. Only one fan of mint.
I have my own shelf in the freezer. No guilt, no questions, no competition. :headbang:
paul_valaru
10/07/08, 10:28am
Today, o most holy day my boss came in with a case fo cookies, oh yea I now have 2 boxes in my desk drawer, and nay they shall NOT see the light of my abode.
House of four. Only one fan of mint.
I have my own shelf in the freezer. No guilt, no questions, no competition. :headbang:
:thumbup:
Today, o most holy day my boss came in with a case fo cookies, oh yea I now have 2 boxes in my desk drawer, and nay they shall NOT see the light of my abode.
Sugarhigh
(I gotta have it, really need it to get by)
Sugarhigh
(I wanna feel it, can't quite feel it... sugarhigh)
:D
oooooh Leslie is gonna read this and then you're gonna be in trooooouble for not sharing with her.
paul_valaru
10/07/08, 11:06am
oooooh Leslie is gonna read this and then you're gonna be in trooooouble for not sharing with her.
she don't like them.
she is the perfect woman.
Did I post pictures of when I had 203 cases of Girl Scout cookies in the house?
paul_valaru
10/07/08, 12:10pm
Did I post pictures of when I had 203 cases of Girl Scout cookies in the house?
no, you did not, I think you should
paul_valaru
10/07/08, 12:11pm
oy one box down already, I don't feel to good.
I wonder if they are on Rob's computer...they are not on mine.
BeardofPants
10/07/08, 04:15pm
she don't like them.
she is the perfect woman.
That would be why she is a skinny lil' runt. :army:
paul_valaru
10/07/08, 04:18pm
That would be why she is a skinny lil' runt. :army:
GIRLFIGHT!!!
So I don't get to look forward to a email telling of your tragic demise after a plunge from hundreds of feet up? I'll try and contain my dismay.
Speaking of plunging from hundreds of feet up...my mom, brother and I are going skydiving for her 50th next August :D I thought of this thread immediately when my brother asked me if I'd be in for that.
I'm thinking about making a yellow butter cake w/chocolate fudge icing.
Betty Crocker is your friend. :D
I am right now finding out that pumpkin cheesecake is REALLY freakin good. !
and yeah, I don't really understand Girl Guide cookies. The only ones I like are the same thing as Fudgeeos. And I don't like mint food. So I don't see a point.
Professur
10/14/08, 08:54am
Speaking of plunging from hundreds of feet up...my mom, brother and I are going skydiving for her 50th next August :D I thought of this thread immediately when my brother asked me if I'd be in for that.
I mean it in the nicest possible way when I say "You're an idiot".
I can see the classified ad.
For sale
One nearly new parachute
Only used once
Never opened
Small stain
Call: 555-9393
I mean it in the nicest possible way when I say "You're an idiot".
I can see the classified ad.
For sale
One nearly new parachute
Only used once
Never opened
Small stain
Call: 555-9393
:lol: I did it once. It is absolutely the most scared I have ever been in my life. I never did it again.
Professur
10/14/08, 11:46am
Well, they do say you get smarter as you get older.
but they' re wrong you know.
It actually is "if you don't get smarter, you don't get any older"
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