CHOCOLATE CRACKLES!!!!
Yay for chocolate crackles!!
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Every kid tries to get the biggest one even though they will (guaranteed!) make you feel sick before even getting half way through.
This is one of the mysteries of a kid's universe!
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Little Pig Number Three's birthday is on Sunday (the same day as Fathers' Day and the cat's birthday!) and so I have just made up a batch of CHOCOLATE CRACKLES for him to hand out at school after the bell goes at 3 o'clock. Today is also the last day of winter (which is miserable, because spring is next and, ultimately, summer - and summer sucks).
Now, since it is my job to be an attentive mother and hang around the classroom every afternoon waiting for my child to come out (and to be at hand in case I need to embarass him) I have noticed a few things. The first thing is that the older your child gets the fewer mothers hover outside at bell-time. That's not really surprising except for the fact that these absent mothers are wasting the power of embarassing their child, which is power indeed, and outstrips bribery in getting them to do your bidding.
The other thing I have noticed is that hardly anyone makes home-made stuff anymore when it is their kid's birthday! Parties are usually at McDonalds or similar, and cakes are often out of packets, and things handed out at school are almost without exception out of a bag from the confectionary aisle in the supermarket.I kind of get the feeling that children are a hindrance to modern lifestyles.
I think the kids sometimes get this feeling, too.
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What great memories do you have of your childhood? (I bet they include a lot of food-related recollections.)
But who is going to fondly remember a Whitewings easy bake cake? Or that packet of mini mars bars?
Good food equals good memories for all of us.
All hail chocolate crackles!
Even if we can't get through a whole one and chuck up afterwards.
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Recipe for Chocolate Crackles (apparently these are traditionally Australian, which I didn't know - I thought everyone had them!)
4 cups rice bubbles
250g (1 block) Copha (vegetable shortening)1 cup pure icing sugar, sifted
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup desiccated coconut
- melt copha
- mix dry ingredients in a bowl
- stir in melted copha
- spoon into paper patty pans
posted by anonymous jones @ 11:04 AM
3 Comments:
Those look delicious!
It never ceases to amaze me how different things can be between countries that share a language. Ours are Rice Krispies, shredded coconut, and we call them muffin pan liners.
At anyrate, My mother always made our birthday cakes. Early on she learned to decorate cakes & we always had our favorite characters on our cakes...one year she made a cake that was a Care Bear...it even sat up right & was shaped like one.
I once had to make a Batman cake for which I attempted black icing. So I ended up pouring all the food colouring bottles together, because it's hard to get black. Not good. Don't try it. Let's just say "what goes in eventually comes out".
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