Friday, May 30, 2008

This Just Seems Silly

Read this recipe and tell me if you thought this was a little silly:

Homemade Fudge Pops
30 minutes + Freezing
from Lyssa Prasek c/o Simple and Delicious Magazine

"On hot summer days, these are my favorite frozen treats. They're healthy and economical, too!" ~ as described in the magazine

1/4 C butter cubed
1/2 C all purpose flour
4 C milk
1-1/3 packed brown sugar
1/3 C baking cocoa
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla extract
20 Popsicle molds or disposable plastic cups (3 oz each) and Popsicle sticks

►In a large saucepan, melt butter over a medium heat. Stir in floud until smooth; gradually add milk. Stir in brown sugar, cocoa and salt. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for two minutes or until thickened.
►Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Cool for 20 minutes stirring several times.
►Pour 1/4 cupfulls into popscicle molds or plastic cups; top molds with holders or insert popscicle sticks into cups. Freeze until firmYields 20 servings.

First of all.....healthy? Butter? Milk? Sugar?
Second of all....economical? Has this lady priced a gallon of milk lately? I'd also have to go out and purchase popsicle molds and sticks. The total price for me to make these 20 popsicles would be $20. And chances are , with my baking skills lately, they wouldn't even make it past the boiling stage. I can picture myself reduced to tears, lying in a heap on the kitchen floor, burnt pan in one hand with a lighter and flame torching up the Simple and Delicious magazine in the other.

Delicious maybe, but Simple it looks not. I'll forgo the pain and agony now while I suck on a Blue Bunny Fudgsicle.

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