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Birthday Meatloaf Cake
Martha and actress Rosie Perez bake a birthday meatloaf cake.
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Birthday Meatloaf Cake
Martha and actress Rosie Perez bake a birthday meatloaf cake.
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The cakes can be prepared up to one day ahead: Reheat at 325 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, then make the
frosting.
The Martha Stewart Show, May 2006
Yield (er)es 1# to 1%
dd to (hoppin* +ist
Ingredients
% tablespoons unsalted butter
% !ediu! onions, -nely chopped $about 1 cup&
. clo)es *arlic, !inced
% celery stalks $about 1/% cup&, -nely chopped
0 pounds *round beef
% s!all carrots, peeled and -nely *rated $about 1/% cup&, peels
reser)ed for decoratin*
1/% cup to!ato sauce
% tablespoons 1orcestershire sauce
% lar*e e**s, li*htly beaten
1 cup old2fashioned rolled oats
% tablespoons *round !ustard
1 tablespoon coarse salt
1/% teaspoon freshly *round pepper
1/% cup cooked *reen peas
Ve*etable oil cookin* spray
Directions
13 Preheat o)en to 40# de*rees3 'oat two 52by2%2inch round cake
pans with cookin* spray6 set aside3 Melt butter in a !ediu!
skillet o)er !ediu! heat3 dd onion, *arlic, and celery6 cook until
softened, about 7 !inutes3 8ransfer to a lar*e bowl6 let cool3
%3 dd beef, carrot, to!ato sauce, 1orcestershire sauce, e**s,
oats, *round !ustard, salt, and pepper to bowl with )e*etable
!i9ture6 !i9 thorou*hly with your hands3
43 Gently press into prepared pans3 Bake until an instant2read
ther!o!eter re*isters 1"# de*rees, about %0 !inutes3 +et stand
0 !inutes6 carefully re!o)e with a spatula, and transfer to a wire
rack set o)er a ri!!ed bakin* sheet3 8ent with foil3
.3 Brin* % cups water to a boil in a s!all pan3 dd reser)ed carrot
peels6 cook until tender, about 1 !inute3 :sin* a slotted spoon,
transfer to paper towels to drain3
03 Place 1 !eat loaf on platter6 spread 1 cup war! !ashed
potatoes o)er top3 (prinkle with 4 tablespoons peas3 8op with
re!ainin* !eat loaf3 ;rost top and sides with 4 cups !ashed
potatoes3 ;ill pipin* ba* -tted with a 1/%2inch star tip $such as
teco <o3 =%0& with re!ainin* !ashed potatoes3 Pipe borders
around cake3 :sin* tip of a 1/.2inch plain round tip $such as
teco <o3 1#&, punch out circles fro! carrot peels3 >ecorate cake
with carrot circles and re!ainin* peas3 (er)e i!!ediately3