Imagine you have been tasked with developing gourmet confections and baked goods with horse themes for a) humans and b) horses. What would you do? Someone I know is musing on this and here are the ideas I had for her...
- Haybale. Petit fours, slightly oversized and oblong, coated with toasted coconut to look like hay bales, with icing or licorice twine.
- Grain bucket. Tiny milk chocolate buckets filled with granola that's been lightly pulsed in the food processor.
- Jolly Balls. Milk chocolate jolly-balls filled with liqueur.
- Hoofprints in the snow. White meringe cookies (snow) with a hoofprint made of oreo crumbles stamped on top.
- Mineral salt block (himalayan). Made with rock candy!
- Swedish fish-style curry combs. Think gummy bear curry combs.
Obviously those are for humans. For horses I'm drawing a blank, I'm thinking of a takeoff on the traditional sugar cube, pressing the sugar (maybe with a little maple?) into shapes of carrots and apples, maybe airbrushed with color.
What ideas do you have?
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Oh, I love the coconut hay bales...love coconut.
ReplyDeleteGummy horses instead of gummy bears.
For horses, how about candied baby carrots? Or carrot and apple "gumdrops" at least they look like gumdrops. Horse treat cookies in the shape of gingerbread men?
Personally, I just get my guys the fresh carrots with the tops on them for the holidays and maybe some peppermints. I don't think they care what they look like...just how they taste.
I agree about the carrot tops -- maybe a bouquet like 1-800-flowers for horse shows?
ReplyDeleteI like the grain buckets... (I <3 granola)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't eat the gummy horses... which I have seen
I would do "horse stalls", cupcakes with toasted coconut on icing with chocolate chip "poop". For horses I would use bran bits and/or hay with molasses poop.
My horse like all bran bits coated in molasses or honey. Sometimes with carrot or apple or mint stuffed into it.
Those sound great! Yummy.
ReplyDeleteOh, YUM. You know they do make those edible bouquets with vegetables and some other horse-friendly stuff. Hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I had a haybale wedding cake--she made the individual pieces of hay from sugar. There's a picture of it on facebook:
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Red National Velvet cake. Cupcakes with different representations from the book/movie. I can picture the cupcake with a huge steeplechase jump represented on it...
ReplyDeleteRed National Velvet cake. Cupcakes with different representations from the book/movie. I can picture the cupcake with a huge steeplechase jump represented on it...
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