Thaw two sheets of puff pastry and roll it out. With a pastry cutter, cut strips out of the pastry (approx. 3″x12″) - you will need a total of six strips so you may have extra… nothing wrong with that!

Lay on a parchment-lined cookie sheet (you’ll likely need to do two batches). Poke holes with a fork down the center of each strip. Brush with water and sprinkle some granulated sugar on each. Bake at 400°F for 5-7 minutes. The amount of sugar you sprinkled might brown it quicker. Not a horrible thing, just keep an eye on the pastry. Let it cool.

Meanwhile, prepare the pastry cream. Whip 2 cups of heavy cream with ½ cup of icing sugar until soft peaks form. Dissolve 1 tsp. of gelatin in 1 tbsp. of water over a low heat. Add gelatin mixture to the cream mixture and whip until stiff peaks form. Feel free to add 1 tsp. vanilla to the mixture (nothing sucks about that!)

ASSEMBLE!

Line the bottom of a baking dish with three pastry strips. Slather (yes, slather) with raspberry jam (or any jam of your liking).

Generously spoon and spread a layer of the pastry cream over the jam.

Finally, place three more pastry strips over the cream layer and dust like a mad wo/man with icing sugar.

Tah-dah! Instant love! And you’ll likely have some leftover everything there so why not make a Pastry Hoagie?

And who doesn’t know who this is?

Packaged cake mix with some milk.
Tiny bowl, little spoon and baby pan.
Stir until batter is smooth as silk.
Bake like Mom? Yes, kids can.

Set the light bulb to ON and watch it glow;
Getting ready to bake up some fun.
In the pan goes, it will not overflow.
The mini oven will ding when it’s done.

Then comes the frosting to sweeten the deal.
No patience for cooling the pint-size cake.
The icing drips slightly, this is hardly a meal.
This is what you get when you Easy-Bake.

– Michelle Villagracia (a.k.a. miVi)

Flickr user: katipeck

Also check out her Indiana Jones cupcakes [hearts!]

(I’m aware the front part is very inaccurate to an actual ColecoVision but hey, I ran out of material)

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The Rubiks Cube from Flickr user Anita Jamal

Super Mario Bros. from Flickr user clevercupcakes

Sesame Street from Flickr user EyMie

Daleks from Flickr user Crumbs and Dolies

And finally…

Mahjjong Tiles from Flickr user PinkCakeBox