[Sca-cooks] Re: Bundt Cake Contest

[Elaine Koogler]

elisabetta at klotz.org wrote:
>> Nordic Ware is doing a contest....
>> Bakers from around the country will be asked to submit Bundt recipes
>> that reflect their state, i.e. a submission from Georgia could be a
>> "peach" themed cake....
>> Johnnae
>
> So how would everyone represent their home state?
>
> Since I'm in NJ, I'm thinking tomatoes and mobsters.  A vanilla cake with
> cranberries (I think NJ is the cranberry capitol; and besides tomatoes 
> inside
> cake??!!) baked inside, green icing dribbled on top (to repesent toxic 
> waste)
> and little fondant mobsters climbing on the sides. Maybe a gay 
> governor coming
> out of the center hole.
>
> Too bad I only make bundt cakes for shiva calls. I know it's a strange 
> thing,
> but for some reason that's the only time I have ever seen people eat 
> them.
>
> :)
> Elisabetta
> I'm not that weird, really!!!
>
>
I hae a similar problem with Maryland...we're best known for crabs and 
oysters.  But what I could do is a chocolate cake with a yellow 
frosting...make it look like the state flower, the black-eyed susan.

Kiri