birthday corndog cake

so i wanted to bake a birthday cake for a friend, and i didn't have cake batter.. don't usually bake, but i did have some cornbread mix...

all in one jiffy cornbread hotdog bake. i don't really understand why hotdogs and cornbread sounds gross to people(though i don't like hotdogs much.. i have 'em in excess though =(. i thought that those two, and baked beans, were traditional camp food for ease of cooking. am i an adventurous fooder, or are people now just more picky? that also brings to mind a cook book i found at home. it was printed in the 70s and in it was a recipe similar to my own, in addition to other wonderful delights such as sweetbreads, brains, and stuffed beefhearts. ah.. the good old days when not a bit of animal was wasted. thank goodness i wasn't alive then. some things are tasty, and some are not. actually, i like chicken hearts, gizzards (best ones at Donahue's Golden Fried Chicken in Pomona--hell yeah, a real fried chicken joint) and liver quite a bit, and small intestine isn't bad if prepared the way i like it. but i'm not a fan of large intestine or brains. but i hear brains are still popular in the south. if i were a rich girl sha-na-na-na-na-na... *ahem* and i could choose something fun to study, it'd be the food history. or something like that. so i would like to think-- i'd probably wander back here...

1 package jiffy cornbread mix (1 egg, 1/3 cup milk req.)
2 hotdogs

made cornbread as per instructions on box. cut up hotdogs lengthwise and lined edges of pan with them. pour in batter. bake. done. and guess what? it's highly edible. why shouldn't it?

brown rice and jarred indian hot mango relish.