<p>I made three dozen cupcakes, with cooked fudge icing for my daughter’s birthday. Stored them carefully on the counter for the party the next day. later that night heard a strange noise, came around the corner into the kitchen just in time to see my english setter wolfing down an cupcake. At final count he had very quickly eaten 13 of them! Up to this point he had NEVER counter surfed anything… Not a young dog and well trained at this point. </p>
<p>He didnt get sick, I baked more, birthday party saved, and we still tell that story 10 years later. However we still watch him carefully around any baked goods and I store them out of reach now!</p>
<p>^^Ha, ha - one year after my mom recovered from the health food phase, we hung frosted cut-out cookies on the Christmas tree. Bad idea with a Great Pyrenees in the house!</p>
<p>One thanksgiving my Mom made two pumpkin pies, and put them on top of the washer in the adjoining laundry room to cool (countertop was full of turkey supplies!). Went to get them after dinner, and the cat had eaten the filling out of both! I believe we had cookies and ice cream for dessert. This was about 35 years ago and we STILL talk about it every Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>A few years ago, I had my new boyfriend and his parents over for dinner. I made a pineapple upside down cake completely from scratch. And yes, again a cat (a different one, of course!) ate all the topping off the cake while I was showering. I just barely had enough time to make another one. </p>
<p>I love the ganache recipes, and make a similar one all the time, as my now-fiance can’t eat preservatives at all.</p>
<p>Wow. The only thing my cat will do is steal noodles from macaroni and cheese bowls, surreptitiously nom on them, and then spit the de-cheesed noodles onto the floor for me to step on the next morning when I’ve barely woken up and am padding around barefooted. Other than that, he’s pretty good about not messing with food.</p>
<p>S2 (16 yo) makes chocolate ganache and hand-dipped truffles. May be why his GF has stuck around for almost a year now!</p>
<p>DH bakes cakes, etc. for folks at work on a regular basis. These frosting recipes look fabulous, and he is always trying out new stuff. Will have to encourage him to experiement. :)</p>
<p>Our dog likes challah. It’s the only thing she’ll pull off the counter or table.</p>
<p>sistersunnie, our old dog once got part of a roast and a half of a loaf of freshly baked bread. It was the only time he got into anything. Our golden retriever generally is very good. She will not eat dog food out of an open bag/can unless we put it in her bowl, nor will she take anything off the counter, but for some reason she has taken to licking the pans that are left on the stove. Of course, you can see the cleaned out portions of sauce or grease. She seems to be very careful about waiting until they’ve cooled down.</p>
<p>Raw chocolate chip cookie dough. Yum! In college, we used to buy Pillsbury rolls of cookie dough and keep them in the dorm fridge. I also like raw sugar cookie dough. </p>
<p>I wonder if I’m alone in this, but I love raw cinnamon rolls. I take bits of raw bread dough and butter them and add cinnamon & sugar. They’re better than baked.</p>
<p>In college, we used to buy Pillsbury rolls of cookie dough and keep them in the dorm fridge.
I think I may just have to make a trip to the store now! A girl told me about a microwave cake and I am so excited to try it out one day.</p>
<p>Is that a microwave cake that you make from scratch…? I frequent a rather irreverent cooking forum and they tried a microwaveable cake recipe. They said it tasted kind of like a waterlogged vaguely-cake goo, and was entirely inedible (various people said their dogs wouldn’t even eat it). The thread devolved into just putting things in microwaves and demonstrating how they probably shouldn’t be your all-purpose cooking arena…</p>
<p>Oh, and here’s my sis-in-law’s brownie frosting recipe. It’s yummy.</p>
<p>3 T Hershey’s cocoa
1/2 stick shaved sweet butter
2 C powdered sugar (sift, then measure)
3 generous T whole milk
1 T vanilla </p>
<p>Heat butter slowly to melt in sauce pan. Stir in cocoa. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar (about 1/2 C at at time) and stir well. You can alternate powdered sugar w/ tablespoons of milk to keep consistancy smooth. Add vanilla at the end. Stir well. While still warm, pour frosting over brownies. Allow to set up prior to slicing.</p>
<p>Ok, I want to start a movement to outlaw canned frosting. If you have a mixmaster you can make delicious frosting in about 1 minute without even having to bring the butter to room temp. 5 1/3 (just shy of a whole stick) tablespoons of butter (if cold, put this in the mixer and whip for a few seconds till soft), a box of confectioner’s sugar, vanilla or lemon extract or some melted unsweetened chocolate and a couple of tablespoons of milk. Stir to mix, then beat into submission! Instant frosting that does NOT taste like plastic. Plus, it’s so natural and good for you that you can eat the entire bowl, cake or no cake!</p>
<p>All this talk about leftover cake and frosting…it’s like an alternate universe!</p>