Creative food craft ideas
Here are some fun Easter facts straight from the National Confectioners Association (NCA) – the American candy industry’s leading and oldest trade association.
The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century and remain among the most popular treats associated with Easter.
90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year.
16 billion jelly … Read More ...
If you are still wondering what to make for Easter dinner dessert, I have found a few crafty ideas for you here.
You just need a little imagination, and maybe a tad of inspiration, which you will find on these sites and the sky’s the limit!
Kraftfoods has lots of fun and colorful sweet recipes and ideas for Easter on … Read More ...
Feel like surprising anyone this April Fool’s Day with some prank food?
I found these tasty ideas on Recipezaar – my favorite recipe site ever!
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If you pull an edible prank on anybody, I’d love to hear about it.… Read More ...
Passover, is probably one of the best known of the Jewish holidays, mostly because it ties in with Christian history (the Last Supper was apparently a Passover seder), and because a lot of its observances have been reinterpreted by Christians as Messianic and signs of Jesus.
This holiday is coming up next week, and I thought that it was time … Read More ...
Last night, while looking for a bit of inspiration on the web, I came across Adorn Magazine’s site.  I loved their colorful site, it really did inspire me and I hope that it will inspire you too – or at least brighten up your day.
Here are some fun frosting tips and a recipe for Buttercream Icing for Floral … Read More ...
It seems that Easter candy is the topic of the week. Â This is Rachael Coyle’s professional opinion of the matter…an Easter candy showdown, and Jake Dobkin (from Gothamist.com) shares a whole new way of eating it… Easter Super-Fun Candy Balls!
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The photo of Peeps and Cadbury Eggs in battle is by Rachael Coyle
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If any of you live in London, you might enjoy the idea of a quiet Easter brunch, while the kids enjoy Easter egg decorating.
Visit this link to find out more: Egg-citing Easter eats at Carluccio’s… Read More ...
Easter is fast approaching, so if you are looking for a few Easter themed fun crafts to do with the kids here are a few good ones:
Edible Necklaces – this is part of the “Cooking with Beau” series.
Edible Easter Basket from family.fun.com
Some sweet Easter recipes from amazingmoms.com
 Lacy Eggs from familyeducation.com
And, more Edible Easter Baskets … Read More ...
 This craft is not edible, but as it uses food coloring I allowed myself to make an exception.  By some strange coincidence I came across the instructions to coloring flowers with food coloring twice this week, once in my daughter’s book and once on the web, and I really want to try doing it myself (I have to … Read More ...
Spring is finally here, bringing with it new colors, smells, and tastes.
Finally you can get out of the house, take the children for a walk, to the park or even on a picnic!
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Here are some fun and crafty spring recipe ideas from familyfun.com.
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Enjoy!
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Here are some sites that I came across while randomly searching the web for anything food art related, some are wacky, others weird, all interesting… I just had to share:
Food Creation: Designing Tasteful Frictions
And for dessert, here is … Read More ...
As well as “playing with my food” Â I love to visit food and cooking shops and of course I always try to visit every food festival in my area.
Here are a few food festivals that are going to be held in different areas over the next month or so…
March 15-17, 2007Â FI – Food Ingredients Asia-China
Shanghai, … Read More ...
I can’t believe how fast this year is going by, it is almost St. Patrick’s day, and it feels like the year just began. Everywhere you look on the web you can find great ideas for St. Patrick’s day, especially edible ones….here are just a few of the interesting ones that I have come across…
It was my daughter’s 5th birthday party this last weekend, and it was a real success. She just invited little girls (believe me, this made it a lot easier for me). We had a fairy princess party, each little girl that came in was greeted by our fairy and was given her own crown. I planned to do crafts with … Read More ...
I have just heard about this site, and rushed to the computer to take a look. So here it is, take a look…
  I know you’ll love it!… Read More ...