Sweet Tamale Cake

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Started delivering for Amazon, and they happen to send me 45miles + away. Which, shockingly enough, I’ve been doing fairly decent. So in hopes I can keep the dizzy away, I spent a bit to make this, as I didn’t want to spend more on a large steamer, corn husks, and the energy and strength to make actual tamales, heh. Eh, It turned out pretty good. Though, won’t be til tomorrow when I’ll see how they handle when I can’t wash my hands, :grimacing: . I have a bottle of hand wash in the van, so I’m sure I’ll put that to good use tomorrow, HAH!

It’s nothing too fancy. Meant to be as cheap as possible, except for the fruit. Three cups corn flour, as much cinnamon as I was willing to use, some nutmeg, and ginger, 1+1/4 c. sugar, two sticks of butter, baking powder, vanilla, and two mangoes sliced up…:no_mouth:, and I just realized I forgot the teaspoon of salt, :roll_eyes: . Came to a little less than $10.00, and I still have enough corn flour left to make another batch…of…something.

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I’ve said it many times, I love this pan. It has a lid so I can steam lots of things while baking in the oven. Man, I wish I had two of them, heh. Anyway, I put parchment paper on the bottom, that way I could pour some water around the edges. Then I topped it with another piece of parchment paper.

Baked it at 375 (Though, take that with a grain of salt because this oven is not that great), :thinking:, for almost 1 h 30 m. I took it out at the hour mark, but it didn’t seem done. So I left the lid off and baked it for another 23+ minutes.

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Sounds yum! Now I want to make some.

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Definitely tastes pretty good chilled. Just needs more moisture, heh. However, for eating while driving, the dryness works beautifully to keep the fingers from becoming sticky.

:thinking:

Hmm! I wonder how it’d taste with papaya. My brother-in-law bought me one, and regardless that they’re pretty expensive, there’s a lot of flesh in them, and makes up for that cost.

AHA! If I can’t eat nuts (no teeth), I can use the nut milks. Pecan milk and sweet potato, or pumpkin, or nutterbut.

The only thing I’d like to replace would be the butter, or at least not use so much. It really needed at least one more stick added to it, and oof, butter is quite costly. Coconut oil, but I think that costs just about as much…O_o, nope, looked it up. Costs about twice as much, yikes. Lard is cheaper, though, and if I mixed in at least one stick of butter, that just might impart enough flavor. Can’t hurt to try at some point.

Anyway, kind of hungry, really really really hungry, heh.