Crockpot
Cake: Coat bottom and sides of crockpot with cooking spray, pour in cake batter, cook on low setting for 2.5-3 hours. Let cake cool 30 minutes Serve warm or at room temperature spooned into bowls with chocolate sauce drizzled over and topped with whipped cream.
Wrap marinated chicken or vegetables in parchment paper and cook in the pot until done.
Make cider and keep hot during a party.
Serve cheese fondue from a low setting.
Ice Cream Maker
Pour 1 12-oz cola into the machine and let it go to work. When it’s slushy, serve it up in two glasses.
Make margaritas by pouring mix sans alcohol into the maker. When liquid has frozen, add tequila and triple sec.
Lime Rickey: 6 oz seltzer, 1 oz simple syrup (2 parts sugar in 1 part boiling water) and 1 oz lime juice into machine. Freeze 15-20 minutes.
Frozen hot chocolate: make instant cocoa and run machine for 20 minutes.
Rice Cooker:
Steam towels: Dampen, fold in thirds, roll and steam for 5 minutes.
Also use to make hot cereal, takes twice as long, but with no stirring.
Cappuccino Machine:
Crack an egg in a coffee cup, whip with a fork, then insert milk foamer. Steam will cook the egg.
Coffee Grinder:
Breadcrumbs.
Sugar and dried fruit or cinnamon. Can be kept in a sealed jar for 6 weeks.
Waffle iron:
Grilled cheese: 1 T butter, 2 slices bread, 2 slices cheese. Butter bread on one side, place on iron butter side down. Add cheese, and second buttered slice of bread, butter side up. Cook 2-4 minutes.
Calzone: 2 rounds of pizza dough. Place one on hot iron, top with whatever, cover with the other, Cook 2-4 minutes.
Pasta maker can shred paper.
Coffeemaker:
Make tea – infused with fruit or not. Add teabags and sliced fruit in basket and run.
Electric knife:
Cake, fruit, turkey.
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