By Jim Van Liere | PREVIEW Columnist
For those of you who are always ready to try a new dish, I would like to share the following recipe with you; it is called Twinkie Casserole.
You start by taking three Twinkies and placing them in the bottom of small, deep, rectangular dish, such as a small CorningWare dish. Be sure to orient the Twinkies in the north-south direction. (Don’t forget that the magnetic declination for Pagosa Springs is about 14 degrees, so be sure to rotate the dish about 14 degrees counter-clockwise when placing the Twinkies.)
On top of the Twinkies, place some hot fudge chocolate, making sure some of the chocolate runs down between the Twinkies and between the Twinkies and the dish. Place the dish in the refrigerator until the chocolate solidifies and binds the Twinkies together. Once the hot fudge has solidified, remove the dish from the refrigerator and place a layer of cashew nuts on top of the hot fudge and add more hot fudge over the nuts.
Now place another layer of Twinkies, running in the east-west direction, on top of the new layer of hot fudge and nuts, remembering to keep the dish oriented as described above. Again, place another layer of hot fudge over the top of east-west layer of Twinkies and place in the refrigerator to harden the hot fudge.
Once the hot fudge has hardened, remove the dish from the refrigerator, add another layer of nuts, squirt some whipped cream on top of the nuts, and add 12 maraschino cherries plus some M&M’s for decoration. This work of culinary art serves four to eight people.
Have a great April Fools’ Day.
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