I am absolutely in awe of this beautiful black forest cake from Desserts for Breakfast. With an actual chocolate forest! Find tips on making the yummy cake HERE, and in honor of the blogger’s photography exhibit, you can enter for a chance to win a professionally matted print from the artist’s collection and a bag of black cocoa powder. … Read More ...
How to Make Ganache
Find a good, step-by-step photo tutorial on how to make chocolate ganache HERE at Serious Eats. Ganache turns up in so many recipes, this is a great thing to learn if you’ve not already!
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DIY Chocolate Bunny
Learn how to mold your own chocolate bunny HERE at epicurious.
Sometimes you just need to know what exactly is going in to your bunny and the solution is to make your own from raw materials.
There are so many different DIY Bunny molds
and Easter Egg molds
out there too.
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Ganache Filled Eggs
Learn how to make these ganache filled eggs HERE at About.com: Candy.
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Flower Basket Cupcakes
Learn how to make these beautiful Spring flower-filled basket cupcakes HERE at Skip to my Lou. The baskets are part of an 8-day sugary treat idea extravaganza, the Spring Blog Hop, hosted by Hoosier Homemade.
These cupcakes would be perfect for Easter gatherings or springtime flings.
April Fool’s Day Food Pranks
Visit Family Fun for a collection of food prank ideas for April Fool’s Day. Find the collection HERE, including this bacon and eggs made of candy, this fake candy wrapper or faux spilled hot chocolate.
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DIY Candy Bar Wrappers
Intimate Weddings has a couple of great finds for making your own candy bar wrappers. Last year, I posted on their great idea for using vintage comics. The same concept applies using photographs HERE, from Dog N’ Bird (instructions HERE). Or these from wallpaper,with the tutorial found at Such Pretty Things.
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Chocolate Bunny Pops
Learn how to make these cute, kid-friendly bunny pops HERE at From An Igloo. The photo tutorial is easy to follow and, even better, no mold required.
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Box of Chocolates Topped Tart
The name of this tart got me: the Forrest Gump. Or maybe it was the chocolate. Or the gorgeous photography. Most definitely all of the above. Find the recipe for making this beautiful chocolate tart HERE at Almost Bourdain.
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Rainbow Chocolate Curls
I love this colorful and bright alternative to chocolate curls that I found via Frost Me. Find the how-tos for coloring chocolate and curling HERE at The Lone Baker.
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Edible Chocolate Spoons
Is there any better way to eat peanut butter mousse then with an edible spoon? I think not. Find the how-tos for crafting the tuile cookie spoons HERE at the always talented Sprinkle Bakes.
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Snowdrop and Crocus Spring Cake
What a gorgeous sign of Spring: this chocolate cake adorned with paper snowdrops and crocuses (with a phyllo dough nest). Find the how-tos for making the cake toppers HERE at the Martha Stewart Crafts Department blog. And find the full post HERE.
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Movie Night with bakerella
There are all kinds of fun movie and Oscar things going on at bakerella. First, find links to movie-themed sweets, like movie popcorn brownies, froggy cake pops, “Up” cupcakes, and more. Second, win money! Guess your Oscar winner pics and enter for a chance to win a cash gift card. Find all the details for the contest and all … Read More ...
Tutorial: Chocolate Paintings
One glimpse of this Audrey Hepburn chocolate painting and I had to post immediately. How, how, how is it possible that Eye Candy continues to deliver such amazing eye candy day after day? Talent I surely covet. Learn how to create chocolate paintings (based on the blogger’s explanation of the Yurin method) using chocolates and printed images HERE.… Read More ...
Party Spoons
How festive and brilliant are these? I love this idea. Find the step-by-steps to making these baubled chocolate spoons (I know “baubled” isn’t a word, but they are chocolate spoons with edible baubles, so it seemed apt) HERE at Delicious Delicious Delicious. My favorite is second from the left.
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