Party Ring 2
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A large shortbread ring is baked and decorated with pink Ribena-flavoured icing and white patterns to recreate a giant Party Ring.
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- A Sunday-evening shop at the smile store ruled out doughnuts as deep-fried and found Party Rings on offer; a mixed bag of baking equipment was bought before the makers realised they only needed flour, butter and sugar. The list is 1 kg of flour, 500 g of butter or I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, 300 g of caster sugar, 500 g of icing sugar and a box of Ribena. Reading’s greatest pizza baker took charge of a dough from a recipe by some Rick, the flour was sieved and two bowls were needed for the scale of it, and the solid butter was softened by grating it over cooking pasta. The ring was shaped, baked to a fine golden brown, then iced pink with Ribena because the shop had no food colouring, with white bits added as the icing ran low. The finished ring is 13 inches across against less than 2 for the original, and the makers’ maths gives it just over 9,900 calories. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7
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1kg Flour 500g butter / I cant believe its not butter 300g caster sugar 500g Icing Sugar 1 box of Ribena Pride
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We started the pimp by heading to the local Co-op, disaster struck it was 7:00 pm on a Sunday so we had to take second best and head to the ‘smile’. The idea of a doughnut was shot down when we realised they are deep fried. So we ventured inside the store and saw Party rings on offer, cashback! The staple of every child’s birthday party but not quite pimping enough. We bought a mixed back of baking equipment, later finding out we only needed the flour, butter and sugar. Heres the stuff,
1kg Flour
500g butter / I cant believe its not butter
300g caster sugar
500g Icing Sugar
1 box of Ribena
Pride
So, we kicked off, luckily we had in our midst the single greatest pizza baker Reading has ever seen, so he took charge of the dough. The recipe was found from some Rick guy, quite the recipe guru. The sieving of flour was essential as we mixed in all the flour, butter and sugar, we had to use two bowls due to the sheer scale of the pimp. The butter was solid so we rigged up a cheese grater over pasta to melt it, worked like a charm.After the merging of the balls and some tomfoolery with gravity we began to contemplate the task of shaping the gargantuan ring.
We shaped it well and transferred it to the oven, measures had to be taken to protect the pimp from marauding bears who are partial to over sized snacks.
After the biscuit was a fine golden brown we began to consider the icing, the key feature of any party ring. Due to the tragic lack of food colouring available in smile we turned to our studenting attitude and whacked in some ribena. It turned out better than we had imagined, success.
As our icing stockpile depleated and under constant criticism from the wenches of the household we added the finishing touched to the ring of destiny, the white bits.
The Final snack is a huge 13" diameter, compared to the less than 2" original. With a complex bit of maths we calculate a combined calorie count of a snip over 9,900 calories and enough sugar to cause such severe diabetes to cause a fully grown elephant to require all four feet to be amputated. A successful pimp then.
