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Cake Out!

What’s better than cake? The answer is not much else. Unless, of course, we’re talking about cakes that look like other delicious foods. Cakes so realistic and tempting, your brain will hurt almost as much as your stomach in its attempt to digest the culinary trick we like to call a “cake out.”

Turkey Cake

Taco Cake

Hamburger Cake

Burrito Cake

Donut Cake

Bacon Cake

Hot Dog Cake

Deep-Fried Coke

Recipe by Stephen Witherden

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

1½ cups Coke

Whipped cream

Maraschino cherries

Mix together flour and baking powder. Add eggs and Coke and mix until a batter is formed. Pour 1/3 cup batter into a funnel, dropper, or turkey baster and pour into a skillet filled with oil. Fry for a minute on each side.

Serve warm, garnished with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.

Tubby Dog

A hot dog topped with chili, bacon, cheese, onions, and mustard.

LOCAL FAVE!

Tubby Dog Calgary, Canada

The Cornhole

Corn on the cob wrapped in hickory bacon with two hot dogs and two Colby-Jack cheese sticks all wrapped in ground beef.

Snack Stadium

Recipe by Nate and Dave

5 loaves of bread for the stadium walls

2 kinds of tortilla chips to surround walls

2 kinds of crackers and Easy Cheese for borders

Guacamole for field

Spinach dip for field

Pepperoni sticks for walls and field lines

Homemade Chex mix for walls

Sausages and cheese for sidelines

Hungarian sausage used for the players’ bodies

Black olives for team one’s helmets

White mini mozzarella balls for team two’s helmets

Tillamook Beef Sticks for goal posts

2 aluminum pans

Lots and lots of toothpicks

14-Pie Pie

Recipe by Ben McLeod, Alex Chan, George Organ, Allan McGregor, John Psegianakis, Joel Roncevich, and Peter Schmidt

3 sheets shortcrust pastry

¼ cup carrots, diced

¼ cup potatoes, diced

2 garlic cloves, diced

4 cups gravy

3 sheets puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

14 PIES:

Chunky beef

Beef, bacon, and cheese

Beef bolognese

Beef and potato

Beef and red chilli beans

Beef, tomato, and onion

Lamb, rosemary, and Shiraz

Steak, mushroom, and Guinness

Chicken, leek, and corn

Moroccan chicken

Tandoori chicken

Chickpea and curried vegetable with eggplant and coconut-milk sauce

Dhansak and curried vegetables

Tomato, coriander, and lentil

Line a large greased oven dish with shortcrust pastry. Preheat oven to 350°F and prebake for about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool. In a medium saucepan, sauté the carrots, potatoes, and garlic in olive oil or butter until soft. Add the gravy and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes. Line up the pies inside the dish, standing them on their sides. Add enough gravy to the dish so it comes to roughly ½ inch below the top of the dish. Cover with a layer of puff pastry. Brush pastry with the beaten egg. Bake at 350°F for about 45 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown.

Frito Pie

Recipe by Mona Meline

1 snack-size bag Fritos corn chips

1 can chili

Shredded cheddar cheese

Sour cream

Diced onion

Green chili peppers

Jalapeños

With scissors, cut an opening in the middle of the Fritos bag and pull back to expose corn chips. Pour heated chili over corn chips. Add a generous helping of cheddar cheese. Top with sour cream, diced onion, green chili peppers, and jalapeños.

Hot Beef Sundae

Breakfasts of Champions

LOCAL FAVE!

The Parker Palm Springs Palm Springs, CA

Cheesy French Toast

Three slices of egg-battered brioche, filled and slathered with melted cheese.

Elvis Donut

Peanut butter–glazed donut topped with bananas and bacon.

LOCAL FAVE!

Ike & Jane Athens, GA

Bacon Cinnamon Rolls

Recipe by Andy Phelan

1 container bacon strips

1 container cream cheese

1 roll ready-to-cook cinnamon rolls

Cook the bacon in a pan until one side is mostly done—but not fully cooked through. Dry the bacon of grease, then slather the mostly cooked side of the bacon with cream cheese. Unroll the cinnamon rolls on a hard surface. Place the cream cheese–slathered bacon onto the unrolled