Pound Cake Fries with Raspberry Ketchup
One Year Ago: Easy Peasy Toffee Chocolate Cake
Two Years Ago: Lemon Bars
This year I decided to make a little April Fool’s Day treat. I figured it would be a nice spin to my normal posts. Even though this meal is supposed to trick the eyes, don’t be fooled – it’s totally delicious 🙂
So in the honor of April Fool’s Day I bring you Pound Cake “Fries” with Raspberry “Ketchup”….enjoy!!!
Pound Cake "Fries" with Raspberry "Ketchup"
Ingredients:
For Poundcake Fries:
1/4 loaf of pound cake, cut into 1/4-inch slices
PAM cooking spray
Cinnamon sugar mixture
1 cardboard French fry container (If using)
For Raspberry Ketchup:
One 12-ounce bag frozen raspberries, thawed, or 2 cups fresh raspberries
2 tablespoons confectionery (icing) sugar
1 empty ketchup squeeze bottle (If using)
Source: Food Network
Directions:
For Poundcake Fries:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Trim off a thin layer of the cake's brown exterior crust. Cut pound cake lengthwise into 1/4-inch slices. Turn slices on their side and cut into 1/4-inch strips. Trim to 4 to 5 inches in length (if this sounds confusing, just remember, you are creating French fry-shaped strips).
Arrange strips on cookie sheet, spray both sides with non-stick spray, and bake for approximately 10 minutes, or until browned on top and bottom. Turn strips and bake for approximately 4 more minutes, or until remaining 2 sides are browned. When you pull hot "fries" out of the oven sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Let cool, then arrange in fry container.
For Raspberry Ketchup:
Place raspberries in a blender or food processor, and puree (add 1 or 2 tablespoons of water or lemon juice, if necessary, to facilitate blending). Add sugar, one teaspoon at a time, to taste, until tartness is gone. Place raspberry puree in a fine mesh strainer over a bowl. Use a rubber spatula to force the puree through the strainer. Discard the seeds and transfer the puree to the squeeze bottle. (I put mine in a small serving bowl) Serve alongside “fries.
I love food tricks but I’ve never done any besides accidentally making really bad food the still looks good. That is not a pleasant surprise, unlike these yummy fries! Love it. Congrats to the winner!
To fun! I would love to have a side of fries!
Congrats to Peyton. Happy April Fool’s Day! 🙂
How fun! My son would get a kick out of these tricky fries! 😉
Congrats to Peyton!
I keep seeing all of these april fool’s recipes for savories disguised as sweets and thinking how disappointed I would be if I encountered any such things. But I would be SO happy to eat these! Delicious!
OK, raspberry ketchup sounds good to me!
What a perfect April fools day post! The pound cake dippers look Yummmmy. And a big congrats to Peyton- what a win!
What a neat idea! 5 Star Foodie Jr. would absolutely love this too!
I like your new blog look Brandy, and congrats on two years blogging. Your “fries” with “ketchup” are a fun idea, and in keeping with the spirit of the day.
Thats a good trick using food! It looks good as well.
Im loving the idea of the raspberry ketchup! Looks and sounds just amazing! 🙂
How cute! And yummy!
Those are too cute!!!
Congratulations to the winner! Very funny and yummy post!
Now all you need is a burger to go with it…drool…
This is such a cute idea – love it!
Question……what am i doing with the Cinnamon and Sugar? I’m guessing I am maybe coating the pound cake before i put them in the oven? Please let me know. Thanks
admin replied: — April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:19 am
Hi Beverly,
I apologize for that! I went and changed the directions in the original post. I sprinkled the cinnamon sugar mixture over the hot “fries” after I pulled them out of the oven. Hope this helps! Enjoy!
The directions forget to say what to do with the cooking spray?
Brandy replied: — February 18th, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
Hi Randal, I changed the directions to include the non-stick spray step. Sorry about that! Thank you for letting me know!