My aunt called the other day to ask me to make 25 little doughnut snowmen for her son's first grade Christmas party. Since she is does not know how to boil water but wants to have an impressive treat for the kiddies she called me. Pastry whiz extraordinare!
But, while I'll try to cook everything once, I am not gifted at assembling powdery doughnuts and doughnut holes into snowmen. The first step was to make the little faces and let them dry a little before I put them together. Easy enough, right? Well, the gel ran and I watched their little faces melt into scary clown faces from a Stephen King horror movie. Luckily, I had enough sense to do a test snowman. I knew I needed to come up with another type of icing. At 7:00 the night before the party I hurriedly mixed powdered sugar with water and food coloring and made cute little faces on the doughnut holes. That, the hardest part I thought, was done so all I needed to do now was assemble. The doughnut hole heads kept falling off or the doughnut would split when I inserted the pretzel stick to hold it together. Also when I made the holes in the mints and reeses cups for the hats they would often smash or split. Well, after three hours of eating several smashed reeses cups and broken pretzel sticks I had a tray of snowmen, smiling at me not knowing the fate that awaited them when the tray was sat before a classroom of sugar rushed firstgraders.
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