But sometimes ya just have to cook inside.
Here's to giving boring old meatloaf a new face that will make any kid happy to eat it (well maybe)
Kids come home from school and as usual asked "what's for dinner?"
I said ..... CAKE
They rolled their eyes at me and went about their way never to be seen from again until supper.
Mix up your regular meatloaf and spread into some round cake pans
Cook as usual in oven.
Remove the 3 layers and stack them atop each other with ketchup or BBQ sauce in between each layer.
Make a big batch of instant potatoes and cover the entire thing with mashed potatoes just like frosting a cake.
Save about a pint or so of the mashed potatoes and put them in a quart sized ziplock bag.
Seal bag and cut the bottom corner off with scissors.
Use the bag of potatoes like you would a piping bag full of frosting and decorate around the "CAKE"
Finishing touch.... Cover the entire top center with ketchup on top of the potatoes
Yell .... SUPPER IS READY and watch the odd look of surprise on their faces as they come to the table and see nothing but a CAKE in the center of the table!!!
Even when cut they never caught on until they put forks to it.