Jailhouse Dessert
The best part of county jail is the cake and there are no good parts to being in county jail.
You will need to trade some things on your lunch tray for cookies or buy some from the commissary. The milk is saved from breakfast, The following video depicts he easiest and cheapest way to make a cake in county jail.
A pdf file with tons of other recipes can be found at prison recipes their version of a prison cake is called correctional cake
Correctional Cake
This treat is made of sandwich cookies such as Oreos,
peanut butter or pudding
and M&Ms or some other candy.
You are in jail so you have to improvise and use what you have
Separating the Oreos is always the first step.
inmates crush the cookie part and mold it with water, milk or mayo to create the layers of cake.
The Oreo’s interior cream is whipped with water, milk or pudding and used for icing.
Peanut butter mixed with milk or hot cocoa powder or vanilla coffee cream creates another layer of icing, and M&Ms other candy or crushed cookies are used to top the whole thing off.
Some inmates collect vanilla cookies, cooked or instant oatmeal, peanut butter, raisins and maple syrup from several days breakfasts in order to make an oatmeal cookie version
Here is a video that shows a finished cake
Due to the popularity of Orange is the New Black, Prison cheesecake is becoming a thing
Here is an at home adaptation of the recipe
just for fun you should read about the time gwynneth paltrow dissed Martha Stewart in an online social media cake toss.
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What is your favorite jailhouse or ghetto no bake cake recipe?
