Better to Laugh

When you look at the ingredients list of your favorite snack cakes, cookies, etc., you might need a chemist to explain some of them.  Homemade has to be better, right?  Not necessarily.  My sister-in-law makes two of my family’s favorite desserts:  Ho Ho cake and Heath Bar cake.  Sound harmless? 

I needed a dessert for a pitch-in at work, so I looked up these two recipes.  The Ho Ho cake filling is made of Crisco, butter, sugar, etc. and the Heath Bar cake has raw egg yolks in the topping.  So, clog your arteries or get salmonella?  I chose to make the former, hoping to exercise the fat out.  There is a lot to be said for a ripe, juicy orange. 

I will of course have  a piece of Ho Ho cake; although, I don’t think I will enjoy it as much as when I was blissfully ignorant of exactly what I was putting into my mouth.