Exploding Cakes and Other Comforts

As the larder was too full and getting a bit dangerous over to the previous thread about Weird Food, this one seemed ready to launch.

We came from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/967268/

This message was edited Apr 15, 2009 12:49 PM

Good move, Kyla.

The titles of your posts Kylaluaz... rotflol

Credit where it is due, it is only the collective spirit of the RMG forum expressed here. ;-) And I for one really hope to see more about the volcano cake we started inventing. Not sure how the champagne would work but I like that idea best as to how to make it explode.

One could inject red food color into it first mebbe. To simulate the lava color.

Speaking of LAUNCH, how about a cake that launches when you light the candles?

Dahlia, you're in charge of mission control. OH. There's DH to consider, right-o.

ROTFL!

Firecracker cake! Yay!

Aiming it would be the trick, I reckon.

We had firecracker cake, this would be rocket cake.

I think that the volcano cake should have the chocolate shavings on it so that when it erupts, the bits get carried away by the "lava." We could even have a little hut made of graham wafers that gets carried away in the explosive excitement.

And tiny "trees" made from mint sprigs that get flattened by the lahar. That should be a confection "Chocolate lahar" it could have all sorts of "flood debris" like chopped nuts and toffee bits and dried fruit in it.

Nummy! I want some of that!! Especially the toffee bits.

So far we have:
Firecracker cake (which could be renamed "Caldera cake")
Purple flood cake
Volcano cake
Geyser cake
Rocket cake

Soooo... I suppose the finale might be Hurricane cake? Monsoon cake?

Earthquake Cake too.

Tsunami cake, please. With aqua icing.

I am so glad we have a good cake keeper tracker, thanks, Picante!

We also do not yet have a Tornado cake, now that might be a challenge.

Probably the way you mix that cake is to throw all the ingredients through a fan.

Snorkle!

Definitely the appropriate mixing method. Picante don't forget the traditional Rocky Mountain Rock Cake which does not explode but is our signature cake (or maybe just my signature cake cuz it is the only one that I make that doesn't get dippy).

"... throw all the ingredients through a fan." Or is that the way you SERVE it?

I vote for both, actually.

But not the same fan.

We should test both methods and see which works the most splendidly. In your home, not mine.

No, I think all these cakes are picnic cakes and meant to be served firmly out of doors.

Methinks 'twould be most difficult to serve any of these cakes firmly.

Oh, I think it might be the only way . One cannot be too tentative around exploding devices, earthquakes, or floods. Decisiveness counts.

Oh. I was being too literal. The cakes being rather lacking in firmness, I figured they would wind up in the firmament.

So the cake must be an ice cream cake, with hot fudge lava, IMHO. Ice cream cakes are firm...

Perhaps firmer in zone 3 than zone 5, right now.

What about a wildfire cake with hundreds of tiny candles packed together on top and a tiny figure building an illegal campfire in the middle. Then it would be okay if it had dips and hills because that's what the forest looks like anyway.

Or maybe a blizzard cake with an enormous pile of shredded coconut on top.

LOL!

I'm so going to steal some of these. Love to make interesting cakes for occasions. I think my fav was a Chewbaca cake. Milk and dark chocolate frosting fur. Yum. Some of my other favs
The one ring lemon pound cake. Had the elvish inscription around the sides.
Fariy butterfly cake
Chocolate rice krispy treats layered with crushed oreo dirt and gummy worms. The only realy problem with that one was that we covered the top with something like 86 candels. By the time they were all lite there was a decent amount of wax on the dirt.

A forest fire cake! How appropriate for the RM forum!

Wow Duchess, I wish I'd had you around for my birthday last weekend!

No kiddin Dr. Doolittle! My birthday is May 17th (HUGE hint to duchess).

Is it the high altitude that makes you all so funny?

Yes. Come on over, its fun up here.

Moving here 20 years ago (from St Louis. by the way) hasn't made ME funny - must be something else.

My son lives near Estes Park, I'd love to live near there and make silly cakes.

Silly? I beg your pardon?????

Um, creative? Interesting? Unique?

You are catching on. ;-)

I held my breath until I was light-headed, it was suddenly very clear that they are unique.

Excellent technique!