Snake Surly

We did fondue for Joyce's shower at Thanksgiving. For the chocolate one, Mum made angel food cake, and I made orange pound cake and a chocolate swirl quickbread (the cakes were both from Cook's, the quickbread was from a fairly recent Martha). I wish I'd thought of making caramels - yum! (Though I'm just about to make them for Christmas packages.)

For cheese, we had bread and apples (Honeycrisps, I think, but Granny Smiths would have been good too), and also cubed salami and ham. I tried some broccoli from the crudites platter, and that was darned good too (I bet cauliflower would work as well).

Oh, yeah, cake! I wonder if anybody would notice if I cheated and bought them? Of course, store-bought angel food probably isn't very good. I think I will definitely have broccoli for the cheese fondue. I always liked raw broccoli dunked in cheese sauce, but I wonder if it would be better blanched.

I bet nobody would really notice. We started out with an angel food cake Mum had screwed up a little, and even though the texture was a little weird, the chocolate disguised it.

(The chocolate quick bread was insanely easy to make, if you happen to have that issue of Martha lying around (now that I've shoved Zekie off it, I see that it's the December issue). I didn't even bother to make the ganache for it, since what would be the point of putting ganache on cake that's destined for fondue.)

I blanched the broccoli - crisper that way, and I think it probably held up to the fondue better.

I mentioned to G. that you were going to have marshmallows (wishing that I'd thought of that), and he immediately said, "Graham crackers! For s'mores!", which seemed like a rather good idea. :)