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Lyta_Underhill · 01-19-2005, 10:23 AM

Actually, the Foaming Frodo action figure was a running joke that both me and my husband came up with, and he decided on his own to translate it into a cake for my birthday! He also chivalrously declared he would eat the portion covered with the 'foam,' as we had no actual vinegar in the house but had to use pickle juice! (thus the slightly yellow color that makes it look a bit worse in the photo!) He used so little that it didn't change the taste all that much, really, since most of it wiped off. Also having a rich chocolate cake and heavy cream cheese icing helped overwhelm any odd taste from the 'foam.'

The vinegar had to be added at performance time, but the baking soda was stuffed into the premade hole in the Frodo cake's mouth and when the two came together, it was quite theatrical, as the effect was much like Alka-Seltzer in water, creating a lot of CO2 very quickly! Perhaps this year, I should have a Mount Doom cake!

Cheers,
Lyta

01-19-2005, 10:23 AM	#52
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Actually, the Foaming Frodo action figure was a running joke that both me and my husband came up with, and he decided on his own to translate it into a cake for my birthday! He also chivalrously declared he would eat the portion covered with the 'foam,' as we had no actual vinegar in the house but had to use pickle juice! (thus the slightly yellow color that makes it look a bit worse in the photo!) He used so little that it didn't change the taste all that much, really, since most of it wiped off. Also having a rich chocolate cake and heavy cream cheese icing helped overwhelm any odd taste from the 'foam.' The vinegar had to be added at performance time, but the baking soda was stuffed into the premade hole in the Frodo cake's mouth and when the two came together, it was quite theatrical, as the effect was much like Alka-Seltzer in water, creating a lot of CO2 very quickly! Perhaps this year, I should have a Mount Doom cake! Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”