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By Paul Stern When I first heard the words pâte à choux in baking class, I thought my teacher had sneezed. Also known as choux pastry, it is pronounced pat-ah-SHOO. Had she said, “We will be making cream puffs next class,” I would have known what she meant. Anyway, the main pastry ingredient is eggs. […]
Don’t risk breaking any bottles next time you carry beer to a party. Now you can make your own 6 Packer, a laser cuttable six pack carrier designed by Thingiverse user timogiles. Since it’s designed in OpenSCAD, an open source parametric 3D modeling program, you can easily change the material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, and hand grip size and cut a 6 Packer to your own specifications.
At Corsair Artisan Distillery in Nashville, where I work, we came across a 1920s copper still that escaped Prohibition, and we were dying to put it to good use.
I love spring rolls, I’ve made them three times this week! And they are so easy to make, just do the prep and you can make spring rolls all week. Kristin of Iowa Girl Eats gives us a wonderful step-by-step on fresh spring rolls with a great peanut dipping sauce.
I don’t hold out much hope that I’ll ever be able to decorate perfect cookies with royal icing. But, if I ever give it a try, I want to make chevron patterned mitten cookies like Ashleigh from Bee in Our Bonnet. Follow the link for her full how-to! [Via One Pretty Thing] More: How-To: Granny […]
Beth at Hungry Happenings has created Snowball Fight Cupcakes for those frozen winter days when making snowballs is better (and more deliciously) done indoors. She also includes a PDF of the Snowball Fight wrapper that you can print and attach to your arsenal of pure sweetness. Related recipes: Sweet Sprouts Cupcake Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls
Hot chocolate and marshmallows on a stick? Yes, please.
