Nastiest Kwanzaa Cake Ever

Posted by Stacy in Food & Drinks on December 30, 2008 at 4:11 pm


I love Cakewrecks. I’m totally addicted. This week, they’ve highlighted a totally hideous Kwanzaa cake by Sandra Lee made with pre-made angel food cake, store-bought icing, and, obviously, corn nuts. Well, Sandra calls them “acorns” but the recipe calls for corn nuts. It also calls for popcorn and pumpkin seeds. It would appear the hate mail about this cake was so numerous that Food Network pulled the recipe, but with a little digging you can still find it floating around. In case you have always dreamed of a corn nut-cake hybrid, the recipe is at the bottom of the post.

The hate sites are pretty numerous, too. Here are a couple:
The Kwanzaa Cake and Other Edible Hate Crimes
Nobody Does it Like Sandra Lee
Random Access Babble

And, the infamous recipe:

1 (10 to 12-ounce) purchased angel food cake
1 container (16 ounce) vanilla frosting
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (21-ounce) container apple filling or topping
1 (1.7-ounce) package corn nuts
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted
1/2 cup popped popcorn

Special Equipment:
Kwanzaa candles

Using a serrated knife, cut cake horizontally into 2 layers. Place bottom cake layer, cut side up, on a serving platter. Mix frosting, cocoa powder, vanilla, and cinnamon in large bowl until combined. Spread about 1/4 of the frosting over top of cake layer on platter. Top with second cake layer, cut side down. Spread remaining frosting evenly over top and sides of cake to coat completely. Spoon apple pie filling into hole in center of cake. Place candles atop cake. Sprinkle top of cake with some corn nuts, pumpkin seeds, and popcorn. Sprinkle remaining corn nuts and pumpkin seeds around base of cake.

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27 comments to "Nastiest Kwanzaa Cake Ever"

  1. SarahW
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Poor Sandra Lee. I wonder if she knows her startling misuse of English and hydrogenated fats and plastic starfish is why she has a following.

    I always wondered why she called them "Aigcorns" and why she didn't just by some damn chocolate frosting.

  2. Nick Half
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    sorry, but that cake sounds awesome.

  3. SarahW
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Also I enjoy her well-meant insults to her fellow men. Like the marshmallows in the Hannukah cake (from the store-bought angelfood series). I guess nobody told her the ones she used are made from pig gelatin.

  4. SarahW
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    NIck, no argument on the awesome. Great and terrible, Awful, it is.

    Most recreations of it on the net, however, indicate it tastes like canned pie filling ass. Spit out into trashcan territory. Prodigiously amazingly bad. Monumentally ill-advised.

  5. Gauldar
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    Her Star of Hannukah cake should be an excelent complement to this.

  6. Gauldar
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    Grr, it didn't link properly.

    http://majikthise.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/03/hanukkah _ham_3.jpg

  7. unohav_1
    December 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    There is a link off the CakeWrecks site to a photoset of someone attempting this recipe. One comment on the finished product had me reeling- This looks like one of those suet ball things for birds -Hahaha! Blech!

  8. Joan
    December 30th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    I'm all for mixing homemade with store bought - nobody has time to churn out a from-scratch meal everyday - but I've never seen anything on her show that struck me as remotely appetizing. Blech.

  9. Alice
    December 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    I'm convinced that this woman is either high or drunk while taping this show. That can be the only excuse for her bats**t crazy food.

  10. LisaL
    December 30th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Bleh.... won't even get in to the whole Kwanzaa thing, but wow... that cake just SOUNDS awful. And it's HILARIOUS that she's calling the corn nuts acorns when it's obvious from the close ups that it's a bowl full of corny goodness... lol.

  11. Tempscire
    December 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Urgh. I actually saw the first half of that segment on TV, but I got disgusted and turned it off before I realized she was going to add freaking Corn Nuts to a cake. What the hell is wrong with her?

  12. Martin
    December 30th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    That recipe is an abomination. That's not food, it's bad sculpture.

    Joan, I must take issue with your assertion

    "...nobody has time to churn out a from-scratch meal everyday..."

    I'm not bragging or gloating, I'm just a thrifty guy who loves to cook, and who is the son of two depression-era kid parents. I've cooked a from-scratch dinner every day for several decades. I work full time, same job for 21 years, and my relaxing pleasure at the end of every workday is to do just that, cook a great meal with great ingredients from scratch. Dinner, with my wife and children, now grown and flown, has been my religion.

    You can do it too!

  13. Anon
    December 30th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    I don't know if its the cake, or if its because I've had a stomach flu the past two days... but just watching this made me feel very Ill.

  14. Joan
    December 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    Martin -

    Maybe it's just the limits of my tiny urban kitchen :P I cook pretty much everyday with a combination of fresh and pre-made ingredients. On the days I indulge in a full from scratch meal, it requires balancing pots, pans, and dishes precariously atop my limited counter space.

    What I try to do is cook big batches once or twice a week. Then I have tasty reheatable meals on the other days when I don't feel up to kitchen acrobatics!

  15. name
    December 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    haha i wonder what Nick eats normally if he thinks this sounds awesome...

  16. Shelby
    December 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Ick. Blech. NOT in the Kwanzaa tradition. She made a Kwanzaa kinara out of angle food cake and corn nuts. Really? Apples inside? What?! Who was at the meeting when this was tested and approved? Yeah. No one. It shows. She couldn't just dress up chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles or dip them into almond bark or something remotely like a good idea for the holidays? Seriously?!

  17. Frau
    December 30th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Wow. Something that may give Fruitcake a run for it's money.
    Making a "cake" out of another cake, and adding popcorn and corn nuts to it? I am of hillbilly decent, and we call that "white trash cookin' ".

  18. Gauldar
    December 30th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    Reminds me of this time I was on internet chat and this guy was talking about his drunk experience. He took kraft dinner and put it over nacho chips. It was called White Trash Party Dip.

  19. Gail Pink
    December 31st, 2008 at 10:13 am

    This almost seems like a joke. Almost.

  20. Leif
    December 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Gauldar,
    Damn, does the idea of mac-n-cheese over nacho chips sounding delicious to me make me white trash?
    Top that with Taco Bell sauce packets and you've got a party!!!

  21. Stew
    December 31st, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Is this lady the culinary equivalent of what happened to John Malkovich at the end of Con Air or what? It's not bad enough she's mixing up enough flavors to make a billy goat puke; she has to destroy the food visually as well.

    To call her a crappy cook would be an insult to crappy cooks around the planet. Wow. Just...wow.

  22. Clotho
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    yah, Sandra Lee is a bit of a joke, and I've always wondered what she's doing with her own show on the Food Network - is it because of the boobs?

    I watched part of an episode of her show, and she showed us how to make french fries - she took the bag of fries out of the freezer, opened it, put fries on a baking sheet and put it in the oven. Quite an enlightening episode, before then, I didn't realize I needed to take the fries out of the bag before putting them in the oven ::)

  23. liphttam1
    January 1st, 2009 at 1:30 am

    I would try that. I think I would enjoy it. But would never take a second bite.

  24. Zoe
    January 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 am

    I was sad that the video ended before she started eating the cake. I would have loved to see the look on her face.

  25. kirastus
    June 10th, 2009 at 5:37 am

    I thought that it was a joke from some youtube user when I first saw this; then I google "Sandra Lee" and realised that it is real! Well... as for "real"... This is an abomination. I am sure that she doesn't go anywhere near the crap that she's dishing out, so why should anyone else? Seems like she's very well-known in America, but... WHY WHY WHY???

  26. Hank Hill
    August 17th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    It's because she blows the network's manager, or knows where the bodies are buried. For no other reason should this abboration be publicly displayed anywhere except in some dimly lit basement of a fetishist club, sandwiched between Two Women and a Cup and Dogs Gone Wild.

  27. Sasuke
    September 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 am

    All of you guys "Sandra Lee" haters are retarded, I didn't see anything wrong with that "Kwanza" cake recipe, nobody always have the time to make full blown Kwanza cake, so if she tried to make it easier by using store brought ingredients ... I didn't see anything wrong with it.

    I know, there must be a guy that being rejected by her, or a girl that jealous of her, and started these whole hate Sandra Lee thingy ... and, the all the sheep just start jumping into ... retarded followers.

    Yes, she is pretty, and have beautiful boobs, yes she is famous, and also married to a rich guy, but that doesn't mean to give you right to hate her.

    Morron.


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