

"There are a lot of moving parts that make it tricky for one person to get the timing right enlisting two or even three people will make the process smooth like butter."įire up the oven and start the presses - it's time to get griddling! "Time is of the essence it's best when the sandwiches are still hot," she writes. It's a bit of a commitment to make - but sooooo worth it. Kids especially love being able to reach in and pull a piece of sandwich out of the tantalizing tower." Gibson writes, "I call this savory assembly a 'birthday cake,' but I've served it at weddings, too, and I've never seen an actual cake disappear so fast. Patrick's Day grilled cheese (with braised cabbage, Guinness, mashed potatoes and Irish soda bread) and one of their most popular, The Mousetrap (a cheddar, Havarti and Monterey Jack mashup.)Īnd then there's this ginormous birthday cake. There's The Piglet (a take on ham and cheese), the St.

Many of the cookbook recipes are on their menu. The authors, a husband-and-wife duo, know that of which they write: they own American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, based in San Francisco.
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Released last month, the cookbook includes 39 grilled cheese recipes, along with soups, side dishes, mac & cheese, pickles and spreads. And that's exactly the idea of the grilled cheese birthday cake, a creation included in "Grilled Cheese Kitchen" by Heidi Gibson with Nate Pollack (Chronicle Books, $19.95). The griddle-y goodness of the world's most mouthwatering comfort food deserves a cake on a pedestal.
