This Sunday, August 11th at 9:30AM, there will be a joint Madfish Wharf Mug Up on the patio behind Alma’s Arts & Antiques and Carol McKenna’s Gallery.
OK, Rubber Duck is going to crush the competition with a stiff and crunchy (not soft and limp) self likeness of the one and only.
Test Kitchen Run 1:
Just trying to work out all the variables. Quiet down in the peanut gallery. Yes I know this is not the right dough to make into animals. But there’s a will, there’s a way.
Oh, I think I nailed it. Not only did I make two ducks but I made a seal and a walrus too! Testing is over and the baking begins at 8AM tomorrow so these succulent crunchy Rubber Ducks will be ready to accept the blue ribbons.
It is obvious that if I go with no feet, I make them smaller (sheesh the big ones go nuclear) and I make a small head with an exaggerated beak I will end up with a flock of perfect rubber duck facsimiles.
ROCKPORT FIREWORKS: they are warming up. The start 9:30PM The Granite Pier.
Good Morning Gloucester 
ok then
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I think you should go for manatees. I think they look alot more like manatees than ducks. Call them manatees, make them moist and crunchy and you’ll be a winner for sure. Hey, I thought you would be one of the judges! You can’t enter and be a judge, even though I think you pulled that off once before in a competition if I remember correctly.
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You know they do look like manatees. Sort of a Manatee Walrus cross. But my morning baking will be all cute ducks.
If by judging I get to eat more cookies then I can withdraw my ducks from the main competition. I have my priorities.
But as in life I think everyone should be a judge. Everyone should get to bite their little heads off.
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I plan to eat the heads first
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It’s pretty much the only choice unless you want to go for duck ass.
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Can’t go to mug up better save me one
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That may be a tough sell. My test kitchen brood lasted about three minutes after I was able to cool them to check for crunch.
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Duck, manatee, walrus, seal–they look super yummy Paul!–and extra chocolatey!!!
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You deserve first prize. No doubt about it.
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Wait a cotton pickin’ minute!!! You’re using the pre-made dough that comes in the wrapped up cylinders, aren’t you?? I CALL FOWL!!!!!!!!
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Fowl? As in an aquatic rubbery denizen of Cape Ann? Was the imprint of the end of the package that made the manatee a tip off? Or my posts on facebook where I mention my helper PDB? I’m just skipping over the easy part and letting PDB work that dough up. PDB can pinch off enough for a whole batch in an instant once he’s had his morning coffee. And he uses GMO certified ingredients with BHA and EDTA to keep us all from getting poisoned by bacteria.
Don’t tell anyone.
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The imprint of the end of the package, absolutely. Had you flattened it out, you might have gotten away with it. Really, I’m quite shocked. 🙂
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