Creative food craft ideas
I’m always searching for an alternative to fondant that actually tastes good, and while I’ve worked with marzipan before, I’ve never tried to make it myself. Find a recipe and how-tos HERE at the cookie shop.
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Find a great, gorgeous tutorial on making buttercream frosting (and some cupcake inspiration) HERE at Conversations with a Cupcake.
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Mooncakes are traditional Chinese pastries eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (learn more HERE). Here is merely a tiny sampling of mooncake goodies on the web:
Visit sparklette.net for a gorgeous collection of mooncakes available on the web HERE.
Find a recipe for Thousand Layers Spiral Mooncake HERE at The Waitakere Redneck’s Kitchen.
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Check out 2 Stews for how-tos on playing with your cookies HERE, with these spiral, bulls eye and dominos cookies. I don’t think I’d get very far playing dominos. I’m sure I’d nibble away my best pieces.
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Party Perfect has a great roundup of interesting birthday candles, such as this candelabra from Plum Party and these Tag animal candles. See the whole roundup HERE.
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Whip Up has a great roundup of lunchbag ideas HERE, including this notebook lunch bag from design*sponge and this fabric lunch bag printed from the book, “Bend the Rules with Fabric
,” on The Storque.
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Find a roundup celebrating cookie alphabets, including a video link to the Cookie Monster classic, “C is for Cookie,” (and that’s good enough for me), and a recipe for maple sugar cookies HERE at Junior Society.
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Learn to make gold leaf chocolates and fruits HERE at Cathie Filian.
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Betty Crocker‘s site is chock full of ideas and how-tos for birthday cakes, like this robot or this purse.
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Find the how-tos on making these Totoro Rice Krispie treats HERE at Tiny Urban Kitchen. (And see the whole, clever meal from which these Japanese anime characters are only a part HERE.)
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Find an impossibly big round up of great ideas for peanut butter and jelly HERE at craft jr, including dips, desserts, crepes and more. I think my favorite is this peanut butter and jelly cake.
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Need some bento box inspiration? Wendolonia delivers just that. Just scroll through the collection of “The Week in Bentos” and you’ll find all kinds of fun, healthy, clever, cute, beautifully photographed ideas for packing lunch. And find bento goods in the Wendolonia shop HERE.
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Pasta necklaces will be ever so much lovelier in rainbow colors, I think, with this idea I found on Ohdeedoh. Find the step-by-steps HERE at Simply Radiant.
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Learn to make these cute peanut butter and jelly flowers HERE at Family Fun.
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Learn how to make your own gummi candy HERE at She Knows. Once I get my kitchen back (sigh) this is one I’ll definitely try.
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Making your own gummies has become very popular as it allows you to control the ingredients and let’s face it store-bought gummies are so expensive to buy. To make your own … Read More ...
