Mini powdered doughnut snowmen
Powdered Doughnut Snowmen from The Idea Room
Cute, right?
I love edible art, but for me personally, that means I prefer the entire piece to be edible. The tophat and scarf being unedible, even though just a couple pieces that are easily removed, doesn’t really cut it for me.
The scarf would be pretty easy to replace. A straw/stick of licorice is the first thing that comes to mind, although you might have to use the pull-apart kind instead of old fashioned licorice. It’s much more flexible and you could pull off a few of the strands if it was too thick to hold right.
As for the hat, that’s a little trickier. At first, I thought maybe some thick fruit leather, but it might not hold its shape as well as I’d want. You could do it in two pieces, maybe, so for example, the bottom of the top hat could be part of an oreo and the top could be…what?
Or maybe like the witch hats I make. Did I ever post those? You spread a thin chocolate cookie dough on a silmat, bake for a few minutes, and then while they’re still warm, you bend them into the shape you want. Maybe something like that would do it. 
Or, hmm, are there any other candies and such that would be the shape of a tophat? Or could be altered to work? These pilgrim hats use little Reese’s cups, so I’m trying to think of something similar. Any ideas?
Facts about Food Friday – Candy hogs
FAF #2In 1980, Americans consumed 16.1 lbs. of candy *per person.* In ’93, that jumped to 21.9lbs. The candy industry actually set a goal for “25 by 95,” but it didn’t meet it. By ’98, though, it was up to 25.2lbs per person, though.
Seriously? That was back in 1998, so I can’t even imagine what it is now. That’s the most updated statistic I can find, though. That works out to be roughly 195 candy bars a year.
The thing is, I know I don’t eat a candy bar every other day. I don’t even eat one every week. There are a lot of other people who eat even less candy than I do. You know what that means? There are tons of people who eat waaayy more than I do to average that number out. Holy cow.
Taste the birthday, take 2 – Birthday cake confetti pancakes
I’ve been secretly craving making pancakes out of birthday cake batter since I was told this story last year about being able to “taste the birthday.”
So when my little cousin was visiting and we needed breakfast, I stole him away to conspire with me. I had just snagged a great deal on leftover Halloween cake mixes that had black and orange sprinkles inside for $.29 a box. I usually make my own, but come on, for roughly a quarter a piece, the sprinkles themselves were worth that and I thought it’d be nice to have on hand. Barring holding off until the following Halloween, though, I couldn’t think of a better use than being silly with a 5 year old.
And oh boy did we get our silly on. I doubt the moms were too thrilled, but then again, they were probably too hungover to care. Why get in the way of my a young boy’s fantasy?
It was his first time making a cake and being his meticulous self, I’ve never seen a boxed cake executed so precisely. His hard work paid off and his was tickled to death to watch them sizzling away on the griddle. “Look, K, look at what we’re making, come look, look!”
When they were finally done, though, we faced the issue of what to top them with. We couldn’t very well put regular syrup on them because that’s a lot of sugar and just sounds weird. And well, you can’t eat icing for breakfast, right? I opted to try mine with plain butter. B* had a better idea, though, and insisted on topping his with jelly.
Go big or go home, right?
~Edit~ The downside of making posts ahead of time is that I wrote this a couple months ago, but now I’ve seen birthday cake pancakes at least 3 times in the last week alone. Yay for now feeling like a copycat when this was actually written before, oops.
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