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Remember in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
when Violet Beauregarde chews gum that is a three-course meal? Now swap a
cake for a piece of gum, and you'll come close to understanding the all
kinds of crazy that is this cornbread layer cake that has been iced
with mashed potatoes, drizzled with gravy and topped with fried chicken.
The cake is the creation of Los Angeles-based baker Bree Miller, aka
Bree's Cakes, who says she got challenged to make the cake from a friend
who had seen a photo of something similar.
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"He texted me a photo of a dish that was more like a
casserole and asked if I thought I could recreate something like it
with my own twist," Miller says. "I was like, 'heck yeah. Challenge
accepted.'"
To make this beast, Miller baked the
cornbread like she would a normal cake, and then iced it with the
mashed potatoes, using her trusty angled spatula, when the potatoes were
still hot.
"I just treated the potatoes like they were
buttercream icing," Miller says. "It was difficult because I couldn't
touch the cake because it was burning hot. I also had to move really
fast because once the mashed potatoes started to cool, they started to
fall off the cake."
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To make the dish look more
cake-like, Miller added borders by putting the potatoes in a piping bag
and drizzled gravy down the sides. Miller first made it for her family,
and then shared with her friend, rapper The Game, who suggested she add
macaroni and cheese and candied yams.
"The cake morphed into three layers of cornbread
with a layer of candied yams and a layer of macaroni and cheese, which
was still iced with mashed potatoes and topped with fried chicken. I
dubbed it The Soul Cake. It tastes awesome. It's like a whole meal in a
slice of cake. I've gotten a lot of mixed feelings about it, but if you
have all those foods touching on a plate, you're going to eat them
together. I think people were confused because it looked like a cake,
but it's not dessert."
We think Willy Wonka would approve.
