OK, groan at the whatta hoot part, but not the cupcake part. So cute and clever and easy to make–with Oreos and M & Ms. The instructions are courtesy of “Ezra Pound Cake,” a wonderful foodie site by a pastry chef/writer. Of course, she had me at her site name (as a fellow lit masters gal, I appreciate … Read More ...
Cupcake Toppers, Play Cakes and the Beauty of Links
O the fabulousness of links. It’s a wonder how one thing leads to the next to the next….almost as if the internet were a “web” of sorts.
I happened upon the “Handmade Detroit” blog, who linked to our blog. (Check out the homemade cake toppers on the first page. So great.) “Handmade Detroit,” for “people who like to make stuff” … Read More ...
Egg Molds for Your Bento Box
One crucial prop from “The Dogs of Babel,” a book by an alumna of my MFA program, Carolyn Parkhurst, is a hardboiled egg shaper. This garage sale find shaped eggs into squares. That tidbit has stayed with me long after I read the book, so perhaps that’s why my interest perked when I glimpsed these egg shapers for … Read More ...
Spider Eggs and Candy Corn
The lovely, dense (as in, lots o’ recipes) blog of “The Recipe Girl” has many many many topics and links to peruse. She gives great step-by-step instructions for these scary spider eggs, as well as beautifully done photographs. The spider eggs were originally Martha’s idea, as she is sure to give credit where credit is due, … Read More ...
Endless Party Ideas
The Hostess (with the Mostess) site is chock full of fabulous ideas for hosting a party: Party themes, entertaining how tos, recipes, gifts, crafts, products, holidays, weddings and baby showers, the list goes on and on. And incredible resource. Shameful on my end to only just have discovered Hostess with the Mostess. You can even pick a party theme, and … Read More ...
Learn to Make Mini Chocolate Pumpkins
The blog “Cake on the Brain” offers a step-by-step tutorial to making these cute mini chocolate pumpkins perfect as a cupcake or cake topper. She has a slew of other categories and recipes to peruse, too, so you may spend a bit of time with “Cake on the Brain.”
… Read More ...Take Better Photographs
Something that has become more and more clear to me over the past year–from starting my own online biz, my own blog and from mining the internet for great food sites–is the importance of good photography. The difference between a gorgeous photograph and one that is overexposed or poorly lit or any of the other bad photography terms I don’t … Read More ...
Learn to Make Sugarpaste Roses
Learn to make these lovely, delicate flowers on the Happy Love Strawberry blog. Happy Love Strawberry combines detailed instructions with beautiful photography to give us all a tutorial–as guided by “Alex’s Granny”–in sugarcraft roses (gumpaste in the U.S.). If I wasn’t already an Anglophile, Happy Love Strawberry’s cake love would’ve made me one. Oh, and by the way, they … Read More ...
Share Your Edible Craft with the World
TasteSpotting, a virtual portal to the food and drink world, offers links to all kinds of cool products, recipes, how-tos, news, trends and people. Anyone can post their photograph and link, but they do moderate and can deny submissions (hence, there is good quality control). Read their submission guidelines to get ideas on what they will accept…it’s a vast … Read More ...
Color Coded Dessert Tables
Amy Atlas, a NYC event planner, is best known for her gorgeous dessert tables. I’m leading you to no recipes or how-tos, but I firmly believe scrolling through her “eye candy” is a must for anyone interested in baking or edible crafts. Her photography is crisp and pristine and the subjects even more incredible. She orders the … Read More ...
C’mon, Join the (Cupcake) Club
The super-popular book, Hello, Cupcake! by Alan Richardson and Karen Tack, is chock full of incredible, clever ideas (like “TV Dinner” cupcakes, garden cupcakes with “veggies” on top, “slumber party” cupcakes, even a little Van Gogh thrown in there.) You can join their club on the “Hello, Cupcake!” web site at www.hellocupcakebook.com and post your own cupcake creations each … Read More ...
Every Flavor Cake Labels
These ultra cute bakery labels from the Layer Cake Shop on etsy are great for personalizing your goodies and enticing recipients into the box. They have tons of fun flavors. Aside from the standards–yellow cake, brownie, buttercream–they offer mint, peanut butter, Bavarian, poppyseed, even kiwi.
(Check out the rest of the store, too, especially the “Holiday Shop.”)
… Read More ...Fancy Chocolates? Easy.
Ever wonder how fancy desserts at fancy restaurants look so fancy? Think professional chefs painstakingly paint those intricate designs on chocolate? Not so. The process is surprisingly easy. Chocolate Transfer sheets from Fancy Flours (a store offering everything the baker could possibly need to create edible art) take the mystery out of such desserts. The prints come in every imaginable … Read More ...
Even Cupcakes Love Accessories
Need a clever, quick way to turn cupcakes from drab to fab? Well, OK, even unadorned, ooey, gooey, yummy cupcakes are rarely drab, but you can most certainly make them more fabulous (and memorable).
“The Peach” etsy shop offers tons of homemade and kitschy toppers and charms to personalize cupcakes for any occasion, party or inside joke.
Pinup … Read More ...
Intrigued by Cookie Decorating? Win a Book and Get Started
The yummy, consuming world of edible crafts is thriving. With more and more resources on creating and decorating with food, crafters already interested in making fantastic things from bits and pieces are making fantastic things from food, especially sweets.
And so, the edible art guru at bakerella is at it again, trying her hand at cookie decorating. (Wait, could it … Read More ...