I’m loving loving loving a site I just found: EpiCute. The Cute Food Blog. And I’m not just saying that because they featured my fondant gourds and pumpkins (here), which is how I found EpiCute. I say that because they simply have a good and discerning eye for collecting sweet ideas and beautiful images from the web … Read More ...
Apple Roundup
The Crafty Crow has a roundup of kid-friendly apple treat and craft ideas HERE, like this cute apple tin from Her Cup Overfloweth or this no bake apple pie from Chasing the Goose.
[tags]fall, kids, crafts, apples[/tags]
… Read More ...Sea Glass Candy
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 ...
Roundup: Oktoberfest
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,
Bliss Tree has party … Read More ...
Halloween Cakes
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.
[tags]Halloween, cake decorating[/tags]
… Read More ...Have Food. Will Share.
If you are a food blogger or simply love to share your goods, one of the best ways to get internet exposure is through photo sharing sites. The submission requirements can be strict, the bonus being rejections help you hone your photography skills which is vital for a good food blog. I’ve posted before on tastespotting, foodgawker, and … Read More ...
Inspiration: Faux Bois
I posted on Amy Atlas’s dessert tables almost a year ago (see the post HERE), and I’ve been following her work since. She’s completely brilliant. See her fall table inspiration HERE. And click HERE for the template to make the acorn and leaf garland.
[tags]fall, cakes, dessert table, free template, leaf, acorn[/tags]
… Read More ...Cookie Decorating Tutorial: Flooding
As one who has devoted over a decade to cookie decorating (and teaching others to decorate cookies), I fully appreciate the well-constructed, beautifully photographed tutorial on flooding found HERE at Sweetopia. Beginners and experts alike will find this lovely guide informative.
[tags]cookie decorating, icing, flooding, tutorial[/tags]
… Read More ...Scary Treats
Woman’s Day had so many edible craft ideas for Halloween, I need look no where else for the next month. Find ideas HERE and HERE and even HERE. A small sampling:
Make spiderweb pizza, skeleton cupcakes, enchanted witch brooms, and these creepy monster fingers.
[tags]Halloween, party food, entertaining[/tags]
… Read More ...The Collision of Food and Literature
Literature and food comprise two central components of my life (friends have mocked me for citing Shakespeare and Wordsworth in my book on cookie decorating for goodness sake), so imagine my joy at finding literary food porn, where literature and food converge. Browse the long list of labels for references to just about any food you can imagine, from … Read More ...
Frankenstein Cookie Tutorial
Flickr, for those of you who don’t know, is a photo sharing web site. And yet it’s so much more than a photo sharing web site. Learn how to decorate Frankenstein cookies with a fondant flooding technique through step-by-step photographs HERE, through the flickr group, The Fondant.com Club. And see the entire photostream for fondant.com HERE, … Read More ...
An All New Bakerella…
…but still everything we love. Check out her sweet new site HERE at bakerella.com.
… Read More ...Birthday Candles
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.
[tags]birthday cake, candles[/tags]
… Read More ...C is for Cookie
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.
[tags]alphabet, letter, cookies[/tags]
… Read More ...Birthday Cake Ideas
Betty Crocker‘s site is chock full of ideas and how-tos for birthday cakes, like this robot or this purse.
[tags]birthday cake, purse, robot[/tags]
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