Pancakes

2009-02-24T18:49:00.002-07:00

I love breakfast food. I could, and usually do, eat it for every meal of the day. It is just that good. From french toast, to bacon, to cereal sandwiches, and everything in between, including pancakes, it is allll good. Pancakes though are something I'm iffy about. I don't like a plain ol' buttermilk pancake, they're too boring and basically fluffy piles of sugar. I prefer honey whole wheat with blueberries and bananas. Mmmm, the more fruit the better. Nuts are good too of course, really, every kind of pancake except the plain ol' pancake is good. Really good, great in fact. But alas, I can not cook pancakes!! No matter how I cook them or mix them, it just doesn't work! They're rubbery, they're too crumbly, they burn, they taste just gross. Which is why I rely on my mom to make them :D She's kind enough to make them in large batches so I can pop them in the fridge and eat them cold, which I think are best.

The photo is not of my pancakes, those were to frightening to post, they just look yum.

(photo courtesy of marthastwert.com) Thanks Martha!

Poo Cake

2009-02-18T19:25:00.002-07:00

Hey, I never said I was a good baker. This, proves it. Sure, maybe it looks like something from the back end of an elephant, but it doesn't taste like it. I'm not saying this out of personal opinion which is rarely true when it comes to your own food. That comes from brutally honest brother. Who can't cook microwave mac&cheese :P

Anyhow, it's not made from scratch. Actually, it's a box mix I found in the pantry/laundry room. But, I added chocolate chips and pudding. Cause I'm fancy like that. The icing/brown schmear, is powdered sugar, melted chocolate chips, some butter and a bit o milk. Basically I found a chocolate icing mix and said screw it and used it as a guide line.... Which is why it actually broke my mixer.... Hey, they just don't make things like they used to. Well anyway, when I dumped it out of the pan and onto a plate to cooll, it popped out of the pan just fine. But then I tried to pull it off the plate.... The top and some of the middle stuck. So I had to use pudding as glue....

In the end, it turned out fugly, but was yummy and I think that's what counts.

How to make elephant poo:

Make a devils food cake in a box and bake according to box instructions. Before adding to pan, mix in a few handfuls of semi-sweet chocolate chips and a to go container of chocolate pudding. Add to pan, then bake as you're supposed to. Don't put on plate but something else to cool it down. Slap on some icing then stack tem after maybe cutting them down so they're even. Make a good chocolate frosting. (in other words, not mine) the schmear it all over. Enjoy.

Good luck. I'm no good at instructions but I doubt any of you wonderful folks need any for making elephant poo.

Also, this was not quick, nor easy. So not a recipe I will be saving.

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