So simple and quick! A Celebration Cake, Love Cakes and Flavorageous
Crispy
Treats can be prepared with minimal or even no cooking.
.Celebration Cake
This is so easy and can be adapted for other celebrations with
different pie
fillings or frostings. You could also add coconut, nuts, or candies to
decorate. Looks beautiful and NO cooking at all! For Valentines Day,
use
cherry pie filling!
All you need: 1 prepared angel food cake, 1 can pie filling and 1 tub
prepared cream cheese frosting
Place cake on a cake plate. Frost with cream cheese frosting. Pour the
pie
filling in the hole in the middle of the cake.
Serve slices of the cake topped with some pie filling.
.Love Cakes
Very pretty! The only cooking is just heating the frosting until it is
pourable.
1 prepared pound cake 1 tub prepared vanilla frosting Red food
coloring
1 tube chocolate decorative frosting, with plain tip for writing
1 (14 oz) bag M&M'S Milk Chocolate Candies for Valentine's Day
You will also need: wire cooling rack, waxed paper, 2-inch heart-shaped
cookie cutter and a glass measuring cup.
Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper and top with a wire cooling rack;
set
aside. Cut pound cake into 1-inch thick slices. Using the heart-shaped
cookie cutter, cut out cake using cookie cutter. Place the heart-shaped
cake
pieces on top of the wire cooling rack.
Spoon 1/4 cup of vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag and set
aside. Tint the remaining frosting to a light shade of pink using food
color
and spoon it into a glass measuring cup. Heat the pink frosting in the
microwave for 5 to 10 seconds, or until pourable. DO NOT OVERHEAT. Pour
the
pink frosting over the heart-shaped cake pieces, covering the tops and
the
sides, reuse the drippings and reheat,if necessary. Refrigerate until
set,
about 30 minutes.
Snip a tiny corner of the resealable plastic bag filled with the white
frosting, and use it to pipe designs on the tops and sides of the
heart-shaped cake pieces. Add candies to make different designs, then
pipe
messages on the tops with the decorative chocolate frosting.
.Flavorageous Crispy Treats
5 T butter or margarine
9 C miniature marshmallows (16 oz)
1 envelope Kool-Aid, any flavor
9 C Crispy rice cereal
Grease a 10x15x1" pan. Melt butter; about 45 seconds on high in the
microwave. Add marshmallows; toss to coat with butter. Microwave on
high 2
1/2 minutes or until smooth; stirring every minute. Stir in drink mix.
Immediately add cereal, mix lightly until well coated. Using greased
spatula
or wax paper, press into prepared pan. Cool. Cut into desired shapes
with
cookie cutters or cut into squares. Can also be made on the top of the
stove
using a saucepan.
Copyright 2005 by Leslie Sausage
Leslie Sausage is a web designer, freelance writer and mom. She is the
author of several e-books. For more creative, practical and fun ideas
for
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