APRIL FOOLS CAKE
From karlyn255 16 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Everyone loves April Fools Day. This year is the perfect time to start paying everyone back who ever got you on this day. Start with a cake for dinner then French fries for dessert.
Ingredients
- MEATLOAF: shopping list
- 2 lbs. ground beef shopping list
- 3 large eggs shopping list
- 1 cup bread crumbs shopping list
- 2/3 cup sliced green onions shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley shopping list
- 1/2 cup milk shopping list
- 3 large garlic cloves, minced shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt shopping list
- 2 T. worcestershire sauce shopping list
- 1/4 tsp. pepper shopping list
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- DECORATIONS: shopping list
- one 12 oz. jar roasted red peppers, drained, patted dry shopping list
- 3 1/2 cups hot mashed potatoes shopping list
- 8 cherry tomatoes, stems removed shopping list
How to make it
- Meatloaf: Preheat oven to 375.
- In a large bowl, combine ground beef, eggs, bread crumbs, green onions, milk, parsley, garlic, worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper just until blended.
- Divide mixture between two 8" round cake pans, patting to cover pans evenly, make level.
- Bake meat loaves until juices run clear when meat is pierced with a fork, 20-25 minutes.
- Remove pans from oven; cover loosely with foil, let stand 10 minutes.
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- Decorations: :
- Pour off juices from pans.
- Invert 1 meat loaf onto a flat serving plate.
- Using a small sharp knife, trim red peppers so that they lie flat. Cover top of meat loaf with a single layer of roasted red peppers. Invert second meatloaf onto red pepper layer.
- Using a spatula, spread 2 1/2 cups mashed potatoes over top, sides of meat loaf.
- Spoon remaining potatoes into a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip.
- Pipe swirls around top edges of cake.
- Pipe stars around bottom of cake.
- Place cherry tomatoes, stem-ends down, in a ring around rop of meat loaf "cake" to resemble cherries.
- Cut meat loaf into wedges, serve immediately.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
hahahaha that's great - sounds yummy though I wouldn't mind if someone handed me a piece of this on April Fool's
aussie_meat_pie
in My Kitchen loved it
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Great idea!
m2googee
in Tomball loved it
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OMG, karlyn! Did you make this one up yourself? Regardless, this is a fabulous idea, even my hubby was exclaiming about it! So you get my ^10 and HIS ^5 for a total of ^15! Thanks!
Lorraine
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lacrenshaw
in Horsham loved it
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