Devil Dogs Food

DEVIL'S DOGS

Steps:

• Put hot dogs in warm water to keep warm until ready to use. I use all beef hot dogs.
• Mix dry ingredients and cut in butter.
• Mix egg and milk together.
• Stir into dry ingredients until well mixed.
• Dry hot dogs, roll in a dusting of flour.
• Dip hot dogs into mixture - it's easiest if you put the mixture into a tall glass.
• Deep fry in hot oil (375%) until browned.
• Leftovers may be frozen - reheat in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes.

DEVIL DOGS

Steps:

• Bake your favorite chocolate cake and let it cool. In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. You want it to be very thick, thicker than cake mix, more like a brownie mix is. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (If I'm in a hurry, I place the saucepan over ice in the sink for about 10 minutes or so until the mixture cools.) It must be completely cool before you use it in the next step. Stir in vanilla. While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. You don't want any sugar graininess left. Then add the completely cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat the living daylights out of it. If it looks separated, you haven't beaten it enough! Beat it until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.Grab a spoon and taste this wonderful goodness. If there is any left after your taste test, spread it on a cooled chocolate cake. Cut yourself a piece and put it on a pretty plate. Grab a fork and prepare to experience the most divine pairing you can imagine. This frosting on chocolate cake is to die for. Sure, the recipe sounds strange -- it has flour in it -- but it's sublime. Try it, you'll see. You'll love it so much you won't go back. Oct 2015 update: TIPS! Use only real butter!! (My personal preference is the organic salted butter from Costco as to me it has a more rich and buttery taste.) Do not use margarine, tub spreads, Country Crock, etc as the frosting is likely to separate. Some people like to use superfine sugar instead of regular granulated sugar, or to run the granulated sugar through a food processor first to make their own superfine sugar. If you taste flour or paste when it's done, I suspect the flour/milk mixture didn't cook long enough, don't be in a hurry to bring the milk/flour to the thickened state, let it have time to cook that flour taste out as it thickens. Did you get lumps? whisk whisk whisk as it cooks! One person recommended using a hand mixer as it cooks to avoid lumps, Some people use 3 T of flour instead of 5. I've made it with soy milk, non-fat milk and all the way through to half-n-half and it's turned out great for me using any of those. I've put it in piping bags and decorated with it, I've left it on the counter and I've also refrigerated it. I'm not a professional baker and while I've never had this recipe fail, I highly recommend reading the comments, there are great tips and helpful comments! Some have recommendations for adding cocoa powder, cherry, fresh strawberries, using coconut oil, etc. One person used lavender and earl grey tea in it (I recommended she post that recipe!) Some people have put the sugar in with the milk/flour mixture instead of creaming it with the butter. (I've tried that and personally wasn't a fan as it completely changed the flavor, and texture, of the frosting in the end.) Also, while I like this best on chocolate cake, you can use it on any flavor of cake. In fact, it's the original, very old, frosting for Red Velvet Cake. Yep, that's right! Cream cheese frosting is not the original frosting for Red Velvet :) Happy baking! Have fun, and enjoy!! ~MissyDew

DEVIL DOG CAKE

Steps:

• To make cake:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter and flour a 9-inch square cake pan (2 inches deep).
• Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Beat together butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well, then beat in vanilla.
• Add flour mixture and water alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until just combined.
• Pour batter into cake pan and smooth top, then bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes.
• Cool in pan on a rack 1 hour.
• Transfer cake to a cake plate.
• Make frosting:.
• Combine frosting ingredients with a pinch of salt in a metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and beat with a handheld electric mixer at high speed until frosting is thick and fluffy, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Remove bowl from heat and continue to beat until slightly cooled.
• Mound frosting on top of cake.
• Dust with additional cocoa powder.
• Cooks' notes:.
• • Cake, without frosting, will improve in flavor if made 1 day ahead. Cool, then keep, wrapped in plastic wrap, at room temperature. Frost cake just before serving.
• • The egg whites in the frosting are not fully cooked. You can substitute pasteurized or reconstituted dried egg whites if salmonella is a problem in your area.

HOMEMADE DEVIL DOGS

Steps:

• For the Cake: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk for 30 seconds on low speed. Add the melted butter, milk, egg, and vanilla and mix on low speed for 1 minute to combine, then raise the speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes to make a smooth batter.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Transfer the batter to a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip. Pipe 30 to 36 boneshaped fingers, 3 inches long and 1 inch wide (kind of like the shape of a Milano cookie but a bit wider at the ends), in rows 11/2 inches apart on each baking sheet.
• Bake for 9 to 10 minutes, until the cakes are puffy and firm to the touch. Remove from the oven and let cool completely on the baking sheets.
• For the Marshmallow Cream: Place the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and cream until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar, marshmallow cream, and vanilla and continue mixing on low speed until combined, smooth, and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Transfer the cream to a pastry bag with the same large plain tip that you used for the cake batter (clean it before piping the filling) and pipe it onto the cakes as directed.
• Peel the cooled cakes off the parchment paper and lay them flat side up on a baking sheet. Pipe marshmallow cream over the surface to cover, chill for 10 minutes to allow the cream to stiffen, then place a second cake on top to make a sandwich. Repeat with the remaining cakes and filling. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour before serving. The devil dogs keep, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or you can freeze the assembled cakes in an airtight container for up to 2 months.

DEVIL DOGS

Steps:

• Cream together butter and 1 cup sugar, add egg. Sift together 2 cups flour, cocoa, soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt and baking powder. Add vanilla and milk.
• Drop by tablespoon full onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake 7-8 minutes at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Cool completely and make sandwiches using following filling.
• To Make Filling: Combine 2 1/2 tablespoons flour and 1/2 cup milk and cook until it turns to thick paste. Cool completely.
• Cream together the 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup shortening, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Add cooled paste and beat until fluffy. (This will take awhile and if your paste is not completely cooled it will look curdled. ) I usually double this recipe for the filling.