Brain Cake

Chef to Guest:

"Here, Mr. Pate, along with your latte, have a slice of my brain cake. Both will sharpen your wits."

I know that our group's Chef de Cuisine and Master Patissier, has confectioned many a tasty croquembouche ("Crunch in the mouth") in his time, perhaps, even, a Brain Cake or two.

Brain cake? What's Brain Cake?

Observe:

Wikihow.com

A brain cake is nothing more than a pastry shaped into the form of the human brain. The trick among the brainiest of bakers is to create one that is anatomically correct.

On those occasions when you are entertaining neuroanantomists or brain surgeons, it is good to have a recipe for an anatomically correct brain cake on hand.

A good place to go to — actually, the only place I know of — for instructions on how to make such a cake is WikiHow.com,

where you'll find a posting titled "How to Make and Anatomically Correct Brain Cake."
Click here» brain cake.

You'll need a "map" of the human brain to work from:

psyweb.com/Brain/brain001.jsp

To give something of the flavor, so to speak, of the Wikihow recipe, here are the illustrative image and a few descriptive sentences from Step #9, "Work one cortex (area) at a time." Happily, this part of the recipe illustrates in confectionary terms what in neuroscientific terms is called brain plasticity. Note the recipe's playful word choices (in bold print).

Wrinkle, mold, stretch, and otherwise manhandle the rolled fondant




into grey matter, and then use your rounded form to do the final shaping of the cortex.


Use your cut-out pattern as a guide and take your time. You can always mash it back into a ball, add some water and start over.

Consider bringing any leftovers to our next meeting.

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