If you're heading out on the town for New Year's Eve, well go ahead, get dolled up and ignore this post. This one is for those of us who will be doing the razzling and dazzling at home (in the kitchen, of course).
All you need is a little 151-proof rum, a lighter, and no fear of burning off those gorgeously groomed eyebrows. For whatever dessert you plan to set ablaze, set it in the middle of a dish with a slight rim around the edge to hold the liquor. Set the dessert -- in the picture above, it's a brownie that has been cut with scalloped biscuit cutter and a small scoop of vanilla ice cream -- on the plate where you plan to ignite it. Don't even think about lighting it up in the kitchen and walking out to the dining room with an open fire.
Pour about a ½ ounce of the liquor around the dessert. Once you *breathe in, breathe out*, light a match, set it to the edge of the liquid, and watch the flames soar. It takes about 1 minute for the flames to die down and the plate is left with a warm dessert.
May is National BBQ Month and National Hamburger Month
Cupcakes, not for dessert (unless beef is your idea of a treat)
Because eating French Fries in the car is so tough
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12-30-2007 @ 12:16PM
Lazlo Woodbine said...
You can do this with any liquor, you don't need high proofs to do so. All you need to do is make sure that there is sufficient alcohol vapour to ignite which is easily done by giving a lower proof liquor a quick heat in a microwave. Do NOT heat for longer than a few seconds otherwise you might ignite the vapour inside the microwave!
This works great for flaming Christmas Pudding!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding#The_wish_and_other_traditions
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1-02-2008 @ 12:50PM
DanGarion said...
Might be good to remind people to also ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher on hand if you are going to do something like this.
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1-02-2008 @ 8:26PM
vaca said...
ooohh gotta try that one out!! but would'nt that scorch a bit of the dessert in question?
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