Bombes for Dessert: Don't bring this cake on the subway
Bomb Birthday. Love, the Chic Mormons
We love that the Mormons are promoting bomb birthday parties. Actually, it sounds like a lot of fun. Certainly more enjoyable than riding the New York subway these days. [From MormonChic.com]:
Bomb Invitations: Supplies: - Water balloon - Old newspaper - Flour (1) Blow up a small water balloon and papier-mâché around it using a 50/50 flour-water paste. (2) Once dry, pop the balloon, cut a small 3/4 inch hole in the top. (3) Paint the ‘bomb’ black. (4) Print out strips of paper with your party info on it and stick it in the ‘bomb’ with the end sticking out. (5) Add a fuse with a pipe cleaner and sparks with colored paper and you are ready to deliver.Party Game - Find the Bomb Cake: When guests arrive tell them the cake has been stolen, and the thief has left clues for them to recover the missing items. The hunt will be the main game for this party. About an hour before the party, hide 10-12 clues around the area of your party. Some of your clues could be in code and others in rhyme. If you plan on having quite a few guests, have them divided into teams. The envelopes containing the clues should be in a different color for each team; the blue team, the red team, the green team, etc. Be sure to arm them with detective gear before the hunt.
This party is great at a park.
...A park or a subway platform. With the police force convinced that they're going to prevent a terrorist attack by peeking in the bags of potential bomb carriers, we are encouraging our readers to make a cake in the police officers' honor. With the summer temperatures what they are, and with the heat turned up in the world of subway security, we have decided that rather than turn on the oven and bake a cake, we will chill a cake. A cake that will send shivers down the spine in more ways than one. The cake we choose to make to award our public servants is an Ice Cream Bombe.
Be warned. Do not leave your house with this dessert. You will most certainly be detained indefinitely if law enforcement discovers this dessert in your hands.
Our favorite is the Watermelon Bombe:
Watermelon Bombe
We turn to the wise ones at Joy of Baking for this delicious recipe. However, we recommend the following flavor substitutions:
Watermelon Rind: Pistachio instead of Lime
Watermelon Fruit: Raspberry Ice Cream instead of Sorbet
We also encourage you to make this a watermelon bombe with seeds -- chocolate seeds. To do this simply melt some dark chocolate. Pour the melted chocolate on waxed paper and smooth out to create a thin coating. Chill the chocolate. When chocolate has hardened, cut seed-shaped pieces out. Embed chocolate seeds in raspberry ice cream.
And if you are going to transport this cake by subway, be sure to know your rights as a citizen.
