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 ...
Arrr….a Sweet Matey
In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, visit Family Fun HERE for all kinds of pirate-y party inspiration, like this treasure chest cake or pirate ship.
[tags]pirate, cake decorating[/tags]
… Read More ...An All New Bakerella…
…but still everything we love. Check out her sweet new site HERE at bakerella.com.
… Read More ...Halloween Drinkables, part 2
And create the mood for your drinkables with these tumblers or DIY spooky soda bottles, found All You.
… Read More ...Inspiration: Creative Cakes
The results of the Cookie Magazine Creative Cake Contest are in. Click HERE to see the ten oh-so-clever finalists.
[tags]cake decorating, contest[/tags]
… Read More ...Make Your Own Marzipan
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.
[tags]marzipan, recipe[/tags]
… Read More ...Buttercream How-tos
Find a great, gorgeous tutorial on making buttercream frosting (and some cupcake inspiration) HERE at Conversations with a Cupcake.
[tags]buttercream, frosting, cupcakes[/tags]
… Read More ...Mooncake Roundup
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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Cookie Games
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.
[tags]dominos, cookies, spiral, chocolate, games[/tags]
… 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 ...Inspiration: Lunchbags
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.
[tags]lunch bag, fabric, reusable[/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 ...Turn Chocolate and Fruit into Gold
Learn to make gold leaf chocolates and fruits HERE at Cathie Filian.
[tags]chocolate, fruit, gold leaf[/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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