I'm very sorry that you've been stuck eating cupcakes for so long. Here's a new post just for you.
I bought this at the antique store the other day. I'm very excited about it and I can't wait to use it....except for one little thing. I don't know what it is!
It's a flower-shaped tube with little metal caps on both ends.
I don't generally buy stuff just because it's flower shaped or anything, but this was only a dollar and I saw big potential. I suspect that it is a kitchen utensil, so I'm pretty sure it's food-safe (I washed it about eighty times). My first thought was molded jello- that you could slice up and have little flower-shaped chunks of jello. Well, ok, that wasn't really my first thought. My first plan for it is probably not very practical (or possible). I want to bake cake in it. Chocolate cake, that I will slice up and then ice. Ooo! Or brownies that could be sliced with blobs of ice-cream on them!
On the boring side of experimentation, we could just freeze ice or juice in it and then float it in a pitcher of iced tea or something. Or punch. More awesome (and less likely) options include molding ice cream and then refreezing it . Wouldn't little flower-shaped ice cream cakes be delicious and pretty? You could potentially also use this like a big cookie cutter. You could make a sandwich, and then jam this into it, cutting out a flower-shaped sandwich and then move on to the next sandwich, filling the tube with a stack of pretty sandwiches. Unfortunately, I think only me and Katie would appreciate such fussy sandwiches. It kind of makes me want to find someone to throw a shower for!
What else could I use this for? Does anybody know what this thing is actually supposed to be? Aunt Joan? Ever seen anything like this? The store also had star shapes and heart shapes, so if this works, I'm going back to get more. Normally, I would have been all over the star shape, but I'm playing it safe with no tight corners. It's very hard to get a failed attempt at molded cake out of little star points.
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It's a shaped bread pan, for cooking bread in! 2nd rise the loaf in this and then bake it with the ends on.
Hee, hee! L-, you make me giggle! If that's an antique then I guess I'm an antique too! I bought one of those, (new, mind you) at a Pampered Chef party about 10 years ago. I have never, ever used mine. I do remember the hostess saying you could make easy flower shaped sandwich bread by putting Pillsbury bread dough, from the refrigerated section of your grocery store, in there. (I think she said French Bread dough, to be exact). Also she said to put foil on the ends before capping them, and to bake it with the pan upright. Hope it works. Hey, do you want another one? ;0)
BTW the security word is "dikinade"..what is that? Some new summer beverage? Hee, hee!
Oh wow! Thanks Elizabeth! I would have tried all kinds of things before I ever came to bread.
Katie, my security word is shemisse. I think the computer is getting a little cheeky with me.
Please feed me flower shaped bread when I come to Tucson in 29 days. Or one GIANT flower shaped cupcake.
Lizzie I have the star shaped one and I don't know where it is but if I can find it I'm psyched to make a star shaped loaf of bread. It is the Pillsbury french loaf and I used to think it was the only way to make bread back in the olden days. Love, Antique Joan
um...how would you get a fully expnded loaf of ANY shape out of that? I think it's to store spritz cookies in. Like they sell little plastic doohickeys to keep your pringles in. Yeah...like that. It's a spritz tin.
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