This is NOT pasta and meatballs. It is cake!
Having just returned from a week with my grandchildren, I am more eager than ever to do things simply to delight them.
In an earlier post, I featured some cupcake fun from my friend Suzanne Sawko (see Nana Fun category). This is another of her bakery delights, inspired by the same books shown in that article.
Note the realistic sunflower cupcakes. They were actually made for the grandchildren.
The spaghetti, however, was made as a birthday cake for her adult daughter Amy. Can you believe this Italian pasta dish is cake and frosting?!#$!???
As per directions in the book, Suzanne baked a single layer cake in the blue dish. Then, using a pastry tip and ivory colored frosting, she created the spaghetti. The “meatballs” are doughnut holes smothered in a sauce made of thinned raspberry jam. Grated coconut passes for Parmesan cheese.
Can you imagine the glee a child would experience at taking a bite of this spaghetti? I love it. Maybe the next time my grandchildren are here overnight, I’ll whip up some spaghetti for them. Being a Nana surely is fun!
