Facts About Food Friday – Heart cake without a special pan
Yay, Of Home and Muse had a picture example. Easy enough, right?
FAF #4
Who needs a heart-shaped cake pan if you have a square one and a circle one? Bake a cake in each, cut the circle one in half, turn the square so it’s facing like a diamond, and then add each circle half to the top sides. Yay, a heart!
I don’t bake cakes often, but I wish I would’ve thought of this one a long time ago. I’ve been lugging around a large awkward shaped heart cake pan for many years now, just because I thought maybe I’d need it at some point. It’s had a few uses over the years, like the time my mom made a Mickey Mouse cake using a heart as the base. But you have no idea how much of a pain in the butt it is to stack in a cabinet. It would never lay flat. Boo. :(
Facts About Food Friday – You ooze, you lose
FAF #3When baking a pie, if you have issues with your filling bubbling or oozing out (oo, you’re losing :P), add a tablespoon of tapica to thicken it up a bit. You can also stand a tube of wide pasta like rigatoni in the middle of the crust to let air out.
I’m going to have to do this and take a picture. I just spent 20 minutes looking for a good picture of a really, messy, oozy pie….and could barely come up with even a slightly messy one. :( Good thing I didn’t look for an example of macaroni sticking out of the center of a pie or I bet I’d be even more disappointed.
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.
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