The Worst Recipe Ever? Sandra Lee's KWANZAA Cake - canned apple pie filling corn nut cake
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that was requested a year ago, and it isSandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake. Now if you're
not familiar with this video recipe, itis one that was made several years ago
on Sandra Lee's show called"Semi-Homemade." She had it on the Food
Network, and she made this recipe calleda Kwanzaa cake which has absolutely
nothing really to do with Kwanzaa at all.That's not exactly true -- she does include
these seven candles of Kwanzaa, but shedoesn't talk anything about what Kwanzaa
is -- she just makes this decorative cakeout of things that she bought from the
store which I'm fine with -- if you want tomake things from pre-made things, I am
totally okay with that. What bothers meis making something that is not at all
part of that tradition. If you were tomake a Chinese New Year cake with
dragons and all kinds of stuff and justsay "haha, Chinese New Year cake!" and then
Chinese people don't even eat that cakeor don't even know what that is....
I find that slightly problematic. So thepurpose for making this recipe is not
just to bash it. Number one: I really dowant to taste this concoction of
pre-made ingredients, and number two: I'mgonna learn a little bit about Kwanzaa.
Sure we talked about it in school --briefly.... I don't know what Kwanzaa is, so
come along with me as we learn whatKwanzaa is and we taste Sandra Lee's
Kwanzaa cake. So what is Kwanzaa? SoKwanzaa is a relatively new holiday: it
was started in 1966, and it is a way tocelebrate African heritage, culture, and
unity. So it's a seven-day-longcelebration that begins on December 26
and goes all the way to January 1st. Andeach day, a core principle is celebrated,
and a candle is lit. Before we startconstruction of our cake, let me tell you
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this video! Now let's get on with thiscake. So the first thing we're gonna do
is prepare the frosting. We need one tubof plain vanilla white frosting;
one teaspoon of vanilla; one teaspoon ofcinnamon; and two tablespoons of cocoa powder.
So apparently the name Kwanzaa comes from a Swahili phrase -- from "matunda ya kwanza"
which means first fruits. Andso Kwanzaa was inspired by harvest
festivals that were practiced in Africa.
So while harvest festivals were certainly an inspiration,
I think the celebration of Kwanzaa is
more about community and rememberingyour heritage rather than just
celebrating the literal fruits of theharvest. OK, so here is our frosting....
I want to be clear that this is not a cakethat would be traditionally made for
Kwanzaa.There is no Kwanzaa cake that is made.
Now we've got a store-bought angel foodcake, and we're gonna try to get it out
of the container. Hopefully this will popout. Of course they don't show this on
camera, right? Yeah, they don't show Sandra wrestling with a premade angel food cake --
do they?
I'm gonna pierce some holes on the top of this....
Maybe that will help with this suction.
No, that's not.... Ooh! There it is...
I thought it was gonna be like one of my Jell-o molds
when I was being just like... but no, here it is.It came out pretty beautifully actually.
Yass!!
Now we're gonna cut this in half.
Okay... some frosting around the middlehere.... just enough to glue this back together.
Now we're going to put this back on top. Give that a squanch.
Now we're just going to frost this....
Now that we have everything frosted,we're going to fill the middle of our
cake with pre-made apple pie filling.I've never even had pre-made apple pie
filling -- I guess I'm going to...
Oh boy.
So now I'm going to remove this paper
and my cake stand should be nice and neat --mostly. So now we have to add the candles
to our cake. And Sandra uses these gianttapers. So Sandra says that we should
poke a hole, and give our candle a placeto sit. There we go.
So, black represents the people; and redrepresents the blood that was shed for freedom --
we're going to put three of those -- andgreen represents the fertility of the land.
And finally, to decorate this cake,we're going to add some corn nuts
and some pumpkin seeds. Now in Sandra's video,she calls corn nuts "acorns." Acorns are
not edible. That's not entirely true --native peoples did use acorns, but they
had to go through a very laboriousprocess of grinding the acorns into
flour and then leaching the flour tomake it edible. I'm going to add these
around the cake, I guess? I think shesprinkles them on the cake, too.
Corn nuts on a cake? Come on! Really!? Let's take thecorn nuts off the cake. I don't like it on there.
I like the candles by themselves.
And pumpkin seeds, too, for avid harvestness. Alrighty, here is the Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake.
Boy, isn't it something?Alrighty, so let's finally give this a taste.
Actually, let's light the candlesfirst. Unity, self-determination, community,
cooperative economics, purpose, creativity,and safety.
See if I can do it without havingeverything topple over.
Maybe....
Pie filling.
And we want to make sure we get some of thisgarnish on here, too. Joyous Kwanzaa!
Itadakimasu!
So..... it's not exactly disgusting -- I mean,you've got some very familiar flavors in there:
you've got the cinnamon from the apple pie filling; you've got the cinnamon
in the cake frosting; and you've got alittle bit of chocolate in the frosting
as well; vanilla in the cake; and vanillain the frosting. So all the flavors are
pretty familiar. It is justoverpoweringly sweet because the cake is
sweet; the frosting's sweet; and thenyou've got this very sweet apple pie filling.
And because it's so sweet, youdon't really get to enjoy anything.
Also, what I find very odd is the apple piefilling:
it's very cold; you've got cold, solid, wetapple pie filling with fluffy angel food cake
which is fine -- I think that'sprobably the best part of the whole thing --
and then you've got the crunchycorn nuts and the pumpkin seeds.
The pumpkin seeds are fine -- kind of remind mea little bit like pecans, or something...
It's the corn nuts that are weird. NowI actually do like the injection of salt
in there: it kind of relieves thatonslaught of sugar, but the flavor is out
of context: it's like having a tortillachip with your dessert.
But having said that, corn is actually used in Kwanzaacelebrations, so it's the most authentic
ingredient in this entire recipe, so...Cheers to the corn nut....
which, on their own, are really good! All righty, so thereyou have it -- the abomination that is the
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