Creative food craft ideas
Check out all the cool cupcake gear out there. Perfect gifts for cupcake loves. Check out the cafepress store of “No One Puts Cupcake in the Corner” (an all around great blog found here) for cupcake clothes, bags, buttons, stickers and other goodies with designs like the one above.
Find these cupcake tea lights at Urban Outfitters. 
Win a $500 gift card to Macys from the Holiday Gingerbread and Cookie Contest at FamilyFun.com. Submit your photos of a gingerbread house or holiday cookie before December 29th. Find detailed rules and info here. And while you’re on their site, you can browse around for more fun ideas and recipes, like this gingerbread train. 
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Not only has evite revolutionized how we get people to come to our parties (thank you, evite, for all the stamps saved), but their site has a wealth of information beyone the invite. They have a whole section devoted to gift giving, and yet another to entertaining tips and tools. Visit their blog for even more fabulous ideas on etiquette, … Read More ...
Who would’ve thought a tropical fruit could play such a big role during the holiday season? The National Mango Board. Check out their site for everything you ever wanted to know about the mango. And then some. They have info on the mango, recipes, a section just for kids, crafts and suggestions for entertaining with mangos. This wintery mango … Read More ...
Traditional springerle are white, anise-flavored cookies stamped with a mold or rolling pin. Springerle first became popular in16th century Germany before spreading to Alsace and Switzerland. Springerle can be traced to the winter Pagan celebration of Germanic tribes, Julfest, in which animals were sacrificed to the gods for a mild winter and early spring. Poor people brought animal-shaped breads and … Read More ...
Smitten Kitchen brings us these yummy looking pumpkin cupcakes with maple-cream cheese frosting (adapted from a recipe by David Leite). AND she also provides a couple links to tutorials on making these beautiful frosting roses. It’s not as tough as it looks, she promises. I’ve been so stuck in two-dimensional frosting art, that these are definitely inspiring me to … Read More ...
This post could last for eons, so I’ll try and keep it manageable by sharing just a few of the most intriguing cookies I’ve come across. I’m sure I’ll post more on cookies in the upcoming month. Much more. (Especially if you’ve seen my bio, you know I can’t escape cookies.) First, check out these neapolitans from Woman’s Day. Recipes … Read More ...
What to get for the person who has everything? Edible gifts. Everyone needs to eat, so you can’t go wrong. And ideas from these lovely, crafty bogs sound yummy.
First, WhiMSy love gives a tutorial on making cookie mix jars, based on a recipe from allrecipes.com. As a bonus, she includes fun photography to guide you.
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Check out this Apple Apple pie from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made from a square springform pan. They suggest making a lattice to keep the design from deforming while baking, which can be done by hand. But, of course, they used a “45 watt carbon-dioxide laser.” I put that in quotes because I don’t know what that is exactly. Pretty … Read More ...
I’m so glad to have stumbled upon “Not Quite Nigella,” a lovely, Australia-based foodie blog. Travel with the writer through her pocky forest. She provides details of her journey making this Japanese treat (cookie sticks dipped in chocolate) as well as gorgeous photography, recipes, how-tos and tips along the way. She experimented with organic fairtrade cocolo, cranberries, … Read More ...
So inspired by Mad Baker, a Singapore based blog with beautiful images of these colorful macarons, I set out to find some recipes and how-tos to make them. (Her chestnut macarons shown below. Read about her adventures with baking on her blog.) Macarons–not misspelled macaroons, as I admit to first thinking–are traditional French pastries, cookies made from egg … Read More ...
Like the blogger from “Gingerbread Snowflakes,” I’ve been devouring my Better Homes and Gardens since I was a kid. She’s held on to this clipping from December 1960 and was kind enough to share the instructions for these super cute marshmallow men with us. She gives step-by-step instructions and (updated) photographs. 
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“Leftovers” seems such a sad title for a happy, much wanted thing as delicious abundance. Maybe “edible holiday reminders”? Check out these two sites for some ideas on what to do if you make too much. Or if you purposely make too much in order to have more holiday reminders. Domino magazine gives us this dessert recipe for individual trifles … Read More ...
The good people at Cakespy tried 50 innovative ways to kill a Twinkie
… no small task. So if you need some inspiration, scroll through their clever attempts at Twinkiecide. Make it listen to Randy Newman, have Teddy Grahams attack, make it into croutons, put bleach in its coffee (a la Heathers), turn it into a hot dog, feed it … Read More ...
Perhaps Tom would prefer you nibble on these turkey desserts rather than the real thing! Here are some ideas and links to how-tos for cupcakes, cakes, and more to celebrate turkey day.
The first is the most complicated of the bunch, but look how full of character he is. The detailed instructions can be found at pastrywiz.com. This site … Read More ...
