The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Happy National Cereal Day! To celebrate, have a big bowl of your favorite cereal and check out this fun cupcake roundup from Cupcakes Take the Cake, including this tasty looking Honeycomb cupcake from Ingredients of a 20-Something. More Quick Craft – Cereal Box Pencil Case How-To: Cereal Box Coaster and Trivet Set
What is better than combining your love of design with your love of food? No, really I am asking! These Pantone tarts on Anthology Magazine do just this in the most delectable and aesthetically-pleasing way.
I don’t think I ever had a birthday cake like this! Christina Colantuoni of Full Candy Jacket sent me a picture of her finished Super Why cake she created for a very cool 3-year-old’s birthday. Check out the whole process on her blog. And remember – if you make something you want to show off, […]
This incredible wine uncorking contraption was created by mechanical sculptor Rob Higgs. Inspired by Heath Robinson’s mechanical drawings, Higgs constructed The Corkscrew partly out of found parts. Other components he based on existing parts which he modified and recast in bronze.
If you love to bake, you might be thinking about a DIY wedding cake. Yet even if you are a talented and confident baker, the devil is in the frosting! The trick is choosing sturdy frosting that won’t melt, tastes delicious, and is pretty. Or, you could just skip it! This naked wedding cake from […]
Most of the Barbots and their teams are returnees from previous years, but as with the DARPA Grand Challenges, the…ah… bar raises very quickly from one event to the next as the innovations pour forth. This year’s bots were all beautiful, with gracious interfaces.
Our family likes to do at least one big special breakfast on the weekend, and French toast is a popular request. Why I never thought to make it with banana bread is beyond me. Fortunately, Jessica of How Sweet it Is has a husband who made that connection, and she obliged. Her addition of heavy […]
