Failures

[Dugan]

Failbread can become a pudding - would that work for failcakes too, y'think? Or too crumbly?

[bluedawg]

:recipe nerd triplets:

gladcow, i like the way you think! unfortunately i do not have ice cream in the house. must remedy.

Dugan, pudding is an interesting thought... how do you mean? they're not crumbly, so much as "peel the wrapper and end up with a wide open cupcake."

[Dugan]

I was thinking kind of like a bread pudding, but with cakes it'd be dessert-sweet. Maybe, instead of trying to cube them, just peel 'em and place in a pan then pour a bread pudding type of sauce over them & bake?

[tin can]

bread pudding

[Emiloid]

Maybe you could crumble them, toast them, and eat them with a spoon?!? The ice cream topping idea is great, of course! Much more civilized than my idea.

[La Végétalienne]

Whatever you do with the failcakes, please don't mail them to me, because they'd probably get all crumbly. Wait.

[Dugan]

We made pad thai for dinner guests last night. Ron had purchased some thicker rice noodles that we tried cooking. They were perhaps 7 inches in length, round, and maybe and eighth of an inch in diameter. I pulled one out to try when I thought they were close to done - and totally grossed out over the mouthfeel. RnR tried them, then one of our guests. Without me saying a thing, our guest exclaimed disgustedly that it felt like a worm. I thought exactly the same thing! We quickly agreed to cook other rice noodles we had around. All was okay while I rinsed the worm-noodles but then the aforementioned guest watched me pour them into a container (thinking I'll supplement the dogs' dinners with them over the next few days) - and OMG - they slithered. Then, because they were thick, the slithered a bit more as gravity pulled them into place. It was so disgusting - they'd be a great halloween food!

[gladcow]

:shudder:

[bluemango]

Oh my, all this talk of turning failbread into bread pudding is exactly what I just did!

Manmango just opened a vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca, and because their permanent baker is out of town for a few weeks, they asked me to bake for them in the beginning.

Everything I made turned out really well (and pretty!) except the one cookbook recipe I used: the carrot cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. They did not rise properly, and seemed too oily, and stuck to their wrappers... tasty, but not at all sellable.

So I broke them all up into bits, baked them until the bits were crispier, spread them into a thick layer on a baking sheet, and added soymilk. The cupcakes already had cinnamon, ginger, walnuts, and raisins, so I didn't add anything to the soy milk. I baked it all, and it turned into a lovely deep-colored bread pudding! I made a cinnamon icing, with which I decorated the top with a lattice pattern, and topped it all with a sprinkling of toasted walnuts. It was pretty, and really tasty, and people loved it! So odd. I felt proud because I'd never made bread pudding before, and ended up saving Manmango and the other two owners from money loss. Too bad I will never try to replicate it.

[gladcow]

[shananigans]

Dugan - are you talking about udon noodles? Noodles & Company makes a pan seared noodle dish with them, it's

[quagga]

These failures are making me hungry! And a wee bit queasy.

[gladcow]

udon is generally made from wheat, so I'd guess no

[Dugan]

No, they weren't udon but they did look similar.

Good job, bluemango!

[quagga]

Hm. Banh canh noodles, thick and udon-like. Can be made with rice flour in addition to tapioca flour - link