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Cow Puzzle
by Jonathan Moormann · submitted Aug 3, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
This cake was a group effort of myself, my friend Emily, and my friend Jita.
First off, this is a meatcake: meatloaf shaped like a cake an frosted with mashed potatoes (For reference, http://www.blackwidowbakery.com/demo/meatcake/). We understood that the rules say and non-dessert entry may be dropped, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to spread the gospel of meatcake across the internet.
None of us had ever made meatloaf before, but the experience was…interesting, and rather fun. We rolled the entire meat loaf flat like a sheet cake on a pan, and then waited it for it to bake. Delicious aromas filled the kitchen!
When the “meat-sheet” was done baking, it was surprisingly flat and didn’t need to be leveled, so while it cooled, we took parchment paper in the dimensions of the meat-sheet and Emily drew, freehand, the cow puzzle. Then, Emily and I carefully carved the cow out (including the steak pieces from the interior of the cow) with the parchment paper laid on top. We carefully removed those inside steaks, and the outer edges from the cow (which were eaten—yum!) and then got to the fun part: decorating our meat-cake.
We used instant mashed potatoes for their consistency, and frosted the cow just like normal icing. Then we piped soy-sauce dyed potatoes as the nose, ear, halter, hooves, tail, and cut-outs. We added some realism with some ketchup-dyed mashed potatoes inside the holes of the cow, then glazed the ‘steak’ puzzle pieces with a meatloaf glaze we’d made with a ketchup base, then piped plain mashed potatoes onto those for the ‘fat’. The final touch was the addition of pieces of slim jim as the puzzle ‘handles’.
Not including clean up, which took about an hour more, our meatcow took 4 hours to complete, but was definitely worth it in the end. I would never normally consider ingesting instant mashed potatoes, but the meatloaf made up for them in a big way, and the glaze was delicious.
First off, this is a meatcake: meatloaf shaped like a cake an frosted with mashed potatoes (For reference, http://www.blackwidowbakery.com/demo/meatcake/). We understood that the rules say and non-dessert entry may be dropped, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to spread the gospel of meatcake across the internet.
None of us had ever made meatloaf before, but the experience was…interesting, and rather fun. We rolled the entire meat loaf flat like a sheet cake on a pan, and then waited it for it to bake. Delicious aromas filled the kitchen!
When the “meat-sheet” was done baking, it was surprisingly flat and didn’t need to be leveled, so while it cooled, we took parchment paper in the dimensions of the meat-sheet and Emily drew, freehand, the cow puzzle. Then, Emily and I carefully carved the cow out (including the steak pieces from the interior of the cow) with the parchment paper laid on top. We carefully removed those inside steaks, and the outer edges from the cow (which were eaten—yum!) and then got to the fun part: decorating our meat-cake.
We used instant mashed potatoes for their consistency, and frosted the cow just like normal icing. Then we piped soy-sauce dyed potatoes as the nose, ear, halter, hooves, tail, and cut-outs. We added some realism with some ketchup-dyed mashed potatoes inside the holes of the cow, then glazed the ‘steak’ puzzle pieces with a meatloaf glaze we’d made with a ketchup base, then piped plain mashed potatoes onto those for the ‘fat’. The final touch was the addition of pieces of slim jim as the puzzle ‘handles’.
Not including clean up, which took about an hour more, our meatcow took 4 hours to complete, but was definitely worth it in the end. I would never normally consider ingesting instant mashed potatoes, but the meatloaf made up for them in a big way, and the glaze was delicious.