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As Seen on TV: The Rollie Brownie

I wanted to branch out this week and conquer a sweet treat in the Rollie. That vertical cooking technology seems like it could bake up a brownie, so I decided to try a marshmallow stuffed chocolate Rollie brownie. I decided to grab a mug brownie recipe to try even though I have never made a mug brownie. You don’t need a lot of batter for the Rollie and I thought the mug brownie batter would be a good fit. This may not have been my wisest decision of the day. The ingredients are assembled, the brownie batter mixed.

I used the wooden skewers to skew some Dandies marshmallows. They look so happy on the bag but into the Rollie they went. The brownie batter got poured nto the cooking chamber and the wait was on!

And on. And on. And on. I should have pored less batter into that cooking chamber. There was a slight rise in the batter but it just did not seem to be cooking at the top. The 10 minute timer buzzed and I reset for another 10 minutes. Another buzz, another reset. I scooped a bit of the batter out and discovered that the brownie did appear to be cooking underneath. At 30 minutes I went ahead and pulled the Rollie brownie out.

Or rather, I attempted to pull the Rollie brownie out. Much as with the biscuit of last week, the wooden skewer slid right out and left all brownie inside. Unlike the biscuit of last week, this thing was not coming out with out a fight.

I managed to get a bunch of large chunks out by running the skewer around the edge and shaking. You can see the well melted marshmallow in the bottom right. Now, this might look like a failure. And it certainly was in that I had no brownie cylinder to chow down on. But a pile of half baked gooey chocolate marshmallow pile is better than having no half baked gooey chocolate marshmallow pile at all.

As Seen On TV: The Rollie Bisquick Biscuit

Not entirely satisfied with my Bisquick and Rollie collaboration last week, I decided to try another recipe this week that I have had greater success with in the past: the Bisquick biscuit with shredded cheese brushed with garlic butter.

I use Follow Your Heart cheddar as my cheese of choice. Here’s a bit of the mixture. It’s a wee bit sticky but I managed to get a skewer through it and put it down into the vertical cooking chamber of the Rollie.

These biscuits normally cook for eight to ten minutes, so I set my oven timer for ten and watched the cat pace the kitchen while meowing at top speed because he thought it was kibble time. It was not kibble time.

When the timer went off I grabbed the end of the skewer and pulled out only to have the biscuit itself remain in the Rollie’s vertical cooking chamber.

Not one to panic, I ran the skewer around the edge of the biscuit to loosen it and then tipped the whole Rollie over onto my plate. A few crumbs fell out but the Rollie Bisquick biscuit remained mostly intact.

I brushed it with some of the garlic butter and gave it a taste. The verdict: not bad. The biscuit cooked all the way through and had that signature Bisquick garlic cheddar flavor. It no faster that baking in the oven but if you didn’t have access to an oven this would be a perfectly acceptable way to get your biscuit on.

As Seen On TV: The Rollie Sausage Pancake

It’s Wednesday and that means for the month of September you’ll be seeing my adventures in the world of As Seen on TV. I purchased a Rollie a couple of months ago and you can meet and learn all about him here.

I decided to break in my Rollie by making one of the things suggested in their enclosed recipe booklet: the sausage pancake. A delectable sausage encased in perfectly cooked pancake using vertical cooking technology.

I started out with Tofurky sausage links and a box of Bisquick. I quickly whipped up a vegan version of the pancake recipe on the back of the Bisquick box. Then I skewered one of the Tofurky links and placed it in the Rollie.

Once in, you simply pour in some pancake batter and wait for the magic to happen. It’s a bit difficult to get a good pour into the vertical cooking chamber with the skewer coming out, but I wiped away the excess and then waited and watched. Within a couple of minutes the batter began to rise as promised in the Rollie video.

Unfortunately my batter was rising right out of the vertical cooking chamber, which meant it was not going to cook. I quickly scooped out what I could with a spoon. One of the keys to a successful Rollie is to not overfill the vertical cooking chamber. The cookbook recommends using 1/4 cup of batter, and though that seems slight, when combined with the volume of the sausage it will indeed be enough.

The pancake sausage did not rise out of the Rollie as seen on tv, so I set a timer for roughly 8 minutes and then pulled it out when it seemed ready. Ta-da!

A lightly browned pancake sausage rollie emerged intact. I ate it with a touch of maple syrup for dipping. Was this the best breakfast I have ever eaten? It was not. But I think some adjustments to the basic Bisquick batter would take it up a notch or two. I would use more spray oil next time, and leave it in for a bit longer to try get a better brown on the pancake exterior. But I am happy to have my first Rollie success and look forward to next week’s experiment.

Meet the Rollie: Vegan Vertical Cooking Technology

Panda With Cookie headquarters has a long standing fascination with As Seen On TV products, dating back to the days of the Ronco brand food dehydrator. I loved watching those half hour segments of endlessly dehydrating fruit or roasting chicken or ribs or vegetables. Versatility! Just set it and forget it! And though long quiet, I still love the Semicircular Vegan blog. I thought it brilliant to veganize recipes for the GT Xpress and when I found a more recent As Seen On TV invention I knew I had to try my hand at it.

I present to you, dear reader, the Rollie!

It is the latest from Kalorik industries, and introduces us to Vertical Cooking Technology. The Rollie is primarily used in the introductory infomercial as an egg cooking device. But I saw that as a challenge and thought I would try to create some fabulous vegan recipes that use patented Vertical Cooking Technology.

The Rollie comes with

-a few wooden skewers which are essential for pulling out your rolled food as it rises up like the Great Pumpkin over the pumpkin patch on Halloween night

-a plastic tamping stick for tamping down the filling to ensure proper cooking density

-a cleaning brush to make sure your Rollie stays in pristine condition, ready at a moment’s notice to produce some fine pancake sausage wraps

The Rollie comes with a handy recipe guide and I will be veganizing some of those as well as coming up with some of my own culinary creations. I will be documenting all my experiments here on the blog and I hope you will follow along. Have some suggestions for foods you think will cook well in the Rollie? Have you made the best dang vegan quiche ever in your Rollie? Leave me a comment and let me know!