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A friend and former colleague needs a Christmas baking miracle.
Her little girl has a very specific request from Santa: a colorful cake, with sprinkles. But there's a catch… Her oven broke a couple of weeks ago and won't be fixed before Christmas.
She says she has heard about people in Japan and elsewhere using a rice cooker to bake cakes. And she's been scouring the Web for ideas about baking in a Crockpot.
She writes: “How does that work? I was hoping to make several small layers of different colors. Thanks for any suggestions. I sure wouldn’t want Santa to fail this early in her childhood. =) This experiment will be among the Christmas miracles this year.”
Any ideas?
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lorieh on December 21 at 1:44 p.m.
Here’s a good thread.
It mentions using a Dutch oven on top of a grill. We do something like that when we make cobblers over the campfire in the summer.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/447683
alisonb on December 21 at 2:06 p.m.
OK, now that I’m on the blog, I see that you’ve found the dutch oven idea. I could post on here later tonight with some dutch oven cake recipes if that would help. They include cobblers and crisps, yes, but also chocolate cake, carrot cake and (my fav!) pineapple upside down cake. Mostly from mixes as I recall…