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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Americake

Ingredients & Materials:

- Large piece of cardboard at least 15x10 inches
- Batter for a 2-layer cake
- 2 cups creamy white frosting
- 1 tube red decorator icing
- Fresh blueberries or blue candies

Directions for Disposable Pan, Baking & Decorating:

1. To deliver design, entice a 15x10 inch rectangle into a big size of cardboard. To divide rectangle into 24 squares by enticing vertical and horizontal lines 2-1/2 inches a part. Working various squares at a time, mark your big grid exactly, where the outline of the continent intersects each line on the grid in the pattern above. Connect the marks on your big grid with a continuous line, following outline on the pattern grid. Continue till entire design is made, cut out the design.

2. After you've cut the design out of the cardboard, cover it with foil. Tear off about four more sheets of foil that are 12 inches wide and 16 inches long. Fold each in half crosswise to 12x8 inches then again 12x4 inches then a third time to make 12x2 inch strips. Snip or tear 1/2 inch long notches on one side of each strip at 1 inch intervals.
Folding notched edges under cardboard base, fit strips along the cardboard so the foil extends upward 1-1/2 inches. Tape the strips of foil to the underside of the cardboard base and to each other as you go.

3. Grease and flour bottom and sides of your disposable foil pan. Place in a 15x10x1 inch baking pan. Pour your batter into foil pan and bake in a 350°F oven about 30 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. Remove foil strips, leaving cake on cardboard base.

4. Frozen dew sides and top of cake. With a small pointed piece of wood (toothpick), mark is a container in the upper left corner of cake. With red decorator icing and ribbon tip, make strips across top and down sides of cake, avoiding marked corner of cake. Place rows of blueberries or other small blue candy.

NOTE: Instead of spending money on a shaped pan you'll use once in a blue moon, make your own disposable foil pan for an Americake using the instructions below. With a little American Ingenuity, you can custom-make almost any shape of pan and create other unique cake shapes.

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