Have you ever wondered how tv personalities crank out show after show and book after book? Most are simply a face fronting the recipes, recipes that they have probably rarely made. Recipes that were written for them by professional recipe developers that were paid to do the “behind the scenes” work and make the on-screen personality look uber-creative. Sometimes that creativity can run a bit wild…
Case in point, Sandra Lee’s Kwanzaa cake:
Corn nuts and sunflower seeds garnishing a cocoa-frosted angel food cake? If that doesn’t scream “Celebrate Good Times…C’mon!” then I don’t know what would!
The back story is provided by the recipe developer herself, Denise Vivaldo who recently posted an absolutely hilarious description of her experience working with Sandra Lee: