A Food Challenge: Satellite Dessert

[gnomi]

This Saturday, 4 October, is the 51st anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. mabfan and I are going to launch at the home of friends of ours, and I offered to bring dessert. And I was challenged, if possible, to bring a dessert that fits the theme of Sputnik or satellites. So...

Suggest to me (relatively straightforward, as I need to make it tonight) a dessert that somehow ties into satellites in general or Sputnik specifically.

(If I fail to come up with anything themed, they're getting brownies.)

Comments

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Some cake in a bundt pan that's ring-shaped?

Wow, that's a toughie.

Unless you can buy NASA freeze-dried ice cream locally.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, meat meal, so dairy dessert is out (I think NASA ice cream is available at the Museum of Science).

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

I guess there's actual dairy in the NASA product? Who knew?! :)

[saxikath]

A round cake (or pan of brownies, or whatever) with licorice sticks or something else sticking out of it, a la Sputnik's long pointy bits? :)

Or make one large and one small round whatever (cake and cupcake, or something), put a skewer or toothpick in the middle of each, tie one end of a string to each skewer, and then you can make the small one orbit the large one. :)

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

I like the orbiting cakes idea!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

This could be a cake and multiple cupcakes, especially if you bring a large lazy susan. Stick antennae, solar panels, parabolic dishes etc. in the cupcakes and decorate the cake as the Earth. On a lazy susan they'll be in geosynchronous orbit.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice ideas! Thanks!

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

How about cupcakes decorated to look like Sputnik? You could use those little silver things that I never quite believe are really edible.

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Cupcakes with chocolate dipped pretzel sticks sticking out of them!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm never positive they're edible either, even though I'm assured by many that they are.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[kerryp.livejournal.com]

How about a Sputnik shaped cake - using a Wilton specialty cake pan. See:

http://www.wilton.com/shapedpan/Sports-Ball-Pan-Set

Michaels seems to carry it. See:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sc0433

But phone ahead to see if it is in stock.

See also,

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=9349551C-423B-522D-FE770A391290DA86&killnav=1

or

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=9349550D-423B-522D-F88DCA7A79AC22BD&killnav=1

These, too, could possibly be carried by Michael's. But call first.

Also, Williams Sonoma has this pan, but its internet only and wouldn't arrive for you in time:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku6386122/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C16%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cpumpkin%20cake%20pan&cm%5Fsrc=SCH

The cake can be frosted in silver colored frosting or fondant. See:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sc0379&channelid=

Good luck and enjoy!

Kerry

[kerryp.livejournal.com]

PS - The silver frosting dust has hechsher. I think it's OU

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

That's good to know! Thanks for checking.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. Doesn't work out for current timing, but an interesting idea for a future meal. Thanks!

[sydmcginley.livejournal.com]

fondant made with tang!

actually, that sounds horrid.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

you know, i like fondant, and i like tang, but yeah, putting them together... unless is ends up like creamsicle.

now i find myself wondering what tang sorbet would be like.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Uh... yikes?

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

If you bake the brownies until they become inedible lumps, you can call them moon rocks!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

True. But that would defeat the point of bringing *edible* dessert.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Attach a beeping watch to the brownie pan.

Put it where they can't reach it. But let them hear it.

48 hours later, incinerate the brownies.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Or, try something with dragees.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heeee! I like the idea. Our hosts would kill us, but I like the idea. :-)

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

My wife recommended candy apples. Color the sugar silver, instead of red. Then attach a few mini-M&Ms (silver) and four of the ultra-thin pretzel sticks.

She's more helpful than I am. :-)

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

8 comments and all my ideas are already mentioned.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike?

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

russian tea cookies! with toothpicks or something sticking out of them to represent the, uh, were they probes? sputnik's pointy bits.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of cookies with pointy bits.

I think I like the idea of dessert with pointy bits in general. :-)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

Do fictional satellites count?

Brownies that resemble the monolith from 2001!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Duuuuummm-duuuuhmmm-duuuuuhm...Duhn-duhn!

:-)

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

Why am I always the only one with the disgusting mind?

You need to make them… easily passed. As in, they need to make a complete circuit in 90 minutes (or was Sputnik 75 minutes?).

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

Hmm. My unlogged-in reply seems to have been eaten. Stupid cookies!

Anyhoo... I said:

96 minute orbit for Sputnik 1.

And Ex-Lax Brownies are sooooo 6th grade!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Not eaten; screened -- I screen all anonymous comments.

Though maybe LJ thought the comment was dessert.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

On my friends list? I'm not at all convinced you were the only one thinking it.

[maric23.livejournal.com]

Hey! That's chea... Okay fine so its not cheating, but wheres the suprise? The anticipation? Surely you don't expect me to avoid reading this!

;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

True! But you don't know what I'm going to decide, either. :-)

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

of course, my thoughts went directly to brownies made with beets!

(beets are Russian, the Russians snuck ahead of the US in the Space Race? I dunno!!!)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Iiiinteresting.

Now doesn't that just beet all.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Half-moon cookies!