Takes the CakeFor reasons too obscure to go into, I was asked to bake a cake in the shape of keilbasa sausage. The cake part worked out fine, although it took some clever trimming to get the looped shape of the polish sausage. When I started in on the frosting, I ran into trouble. I stood over the bowl of buttercream, adding cocoa powder and food colorings trying to get that reddish brown color characteristic of keilbasa. I failed magnificently. The resulting frosting was the exact color of bare human flesh. The oval-loop flesh colored cake was deemed 'obscene' by most of the folks who saw it, and it was largely avoided. (tasted fine to me though!)
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