Creative food craft ideas
Our Best Bites has a great collection of clever Halloween party foods HERE. Their roundup–including recipes and how-tos–covers appetizers, snacks, desserts and more, and all are easy to make. My favorites: Oreo spiders, witch wands, and mummy dogs.
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Before they go away forever…. I’ll get in as many posts as I can from Cookie Magazine. As cookies take up a huge part of my life, of course I fell in love with this genius idea from Clare Crespo (of Yummy Fun): edible cookie costumes. Find the how-tos HERE for making cookie masks.
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Having grown up on a beach collecting sea glass, this sea glass candy from Intimate Weddings made me consider divorce just so I could plan another wedding with sea glass favors. Alas, I won’t do that, but I will definitely be saving this idea as a party favor. Find the recipe HERE. And look! A whole blog devoted to … Read More ...
Some sigh inducing news: Conde Nast is discontinuing four of its magazines, including Gourmet (after almost 70 years of nourishing the foodie), as well as Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride. Fare thee well, Gourmet!… Read More ...
Find the how-tos (with video) to make these “ravioli” stuffed with chocolate cake and chocolate cake meatballs wrapped in “fettucini” HERE at Celebrations.
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Find the recipe for making these beautiful window pane potato chips HERE at Fare to Remember.
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I highly recommend visiting Luxirare and traveling through the fascinating photographic journey of creating these faux-caviar parfaits. The blogger breaks down and demystifies athe process of “spherification” and includes resources for making your own faux caviar parfaits. These sweet treats are a sci-fi foodie’s dream.
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Visit Woman’s Day for the recipe for Halloween brownie pops. For the grown-up version, click HERE. For the eyeball version, click HERE.(For the brownie pops recipe and link to the Wilton brownie mold, click HERE).
[tags]Halloween, brownie pops[/tags]
I fell in love with this lollipop pumpkin from Better Homes and Gardens (that sweet-stuff-on-sticks fascination again). Find the how-tos HERE, and the rest of the pumpkin gallery (with 38 great ideas) HERE.
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Oktoberfest 2009 is almost over, but there is still time to throw an Oktoberfest party (hmmm, I guess any time is a good time for a beer-centered party, according to my husband). Here are some links with Oktoberfest food and drink and party ideas (including the essentials, like beer, brats, pretzels, black forest cake, potato salad,
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Find tons of Halloween cake ideas HERE at Wilton. If the ghostly Victorian seems too ambitious, there’s always this dracula coffin cake or mummy cake.
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Martha has a great slideshow of almost 30 Halloween favor and treat boxes, including how-tos and templates. Find the slideshow HERE, including these owls, skulls and brooms.
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Oh, if only candy grew on trees… Find the how-tos for making this candy topiary HERE from Martha Stewart.
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um, yum. Find the recipe for caramel apple pie in a cup drink HERE at RootsAndWingsCo.
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Cute. Kid-friendly. Easy-to-make. What’s not to love about these cornflake pumpkins from Smashed Peas and Carrots? Find the recipe here.
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