Meatloaf Cake

From Nerd Meets Food | Main Dishes | American

This is a meatloaf based cake that is great for the gluten intolerant.

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High cal Calories 776kcal
High fat Total Fat 41g
High sat-fat Saturated Fat 17g
High chol Cholesterol 134mg
High sodium Sodium 1850mg
High carbs Total Carbohydrate 73g
Serving size 376g Calories from fat 366kcal Fiber 6g Protein 28g Sugar 24g

Ingredients

  • Meatloaf:
  • 1 lb of ground beef
  • 1 lb of ground meat (other than beef)
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 orange bell pepper (or yellow or red)
  • 1 large onion
  • 1/2 lb baby carrots
  • 1 tsp of pepper
  • 1 tbsp of salt
  • 4 cups of bread-crumbs.
  • 2 tbsp of italian herb seasoning
  • 1 large egg

  • Glaze:
  • 1 cup of ketchup
  • 2 dashes hot sauce
  • 1 tsp of cumin
  • 2 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 tbsp of BBQ sauce
  • 4 tbsp of honey

  • Mashed potatoes:

  • 1 lb yukon gold potatoes
  • 1/4 cup of butter
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • salt
  • pepper

Directions

  1. Finely chop all the vegetation,
  2. In a large ball add the veggies and the bread-crumbs with the rest of the seasoning.
  3. Add the ground beef and the other meat and mix. Mix by folding and not squeezing the mix.
  4. At the end add the egg, the binder that will hold everything together.
  5. Divide the mixture in two equal parts (you can eye ball it, it is not that critical).
  6. Take a nine inch cake pan and brush it with vegetable oil.
  7. Put half of the mix in there.
  8. Flip the meat mixture over, to get the cake out of the cake pan onto the baking dish shaped as a large burger patty.
  9. Repeat the process for the rest of the meat and you will have two nice big burger patties on a baking pan.
  10. Bake at 325F for 1 hour.
  11. The meantime prepare the glaze my mixing together all the ingredients.
  12. Save about 1/3 of the mixture, for later.
  13. The rest brush it on the top and sides of the two meatloafs while in the oven 15 min after you start the coking.
  14. Peel and cut the potatoes.
  15. Add them in a pot with cold water and salt and bring to a boil.
  16. Drain of the water and in the same pot add half a stick of butter and half a cup of whipping cream.
  17. Let the potatoes cool completely.
  18. Mash the potatoes and make them as smooth as you can.
  19. Take a cup of the potatoes and mix in the glaze you kept.
  20. Take one of the meat loafs and place it in the center of a large serving dish.
  21. Add the filling made with the mashed potatoes and the glaze. Put on top the other meatloaf.
  22. Use the mashed potatoes as icing and decorate the "cake".
  23. Use some cherry tomatoes for garnish.

Tips

  • You can use regular icing tools like an garnishing tip and create a more professional look.