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How-To: Rubik’s Cube Battenburg Cake

How-To: Rubik’s Cube Battenburg Cake

Vicky of Stasty created this amazing Rubik’s Cube battenburg cake in honor of the puzzle cube’s inventor, Ernล‘ Rubik’s, birthday. What I love most about the cake is that it was constructed in such a way that each slice reveals a different color block pattern. Brilliant. See how it was constructed over on Stasty. [via […]

How-To: English Muffins (Just Like Thomas’)

How-To: English Muffins (Just Like Thomas’)

Remember those over-the-top Thomas’ English Muffin commercials from the 80s, where some gentle old English chap contentedly recounts his idyllic childhood running down the cobblestone street with a hoop and stick, getting switched at school, wearing knickers, and eating Thomas’ English Muffins (à la A Child’s Christmas in Wales)? Well, Paula at Dishing the Divine […]

Sunprint Wedding Cake

We’ve talked about how to make sunprints on paper here before. But this sunprint wedding cake from Once Wed is absolutely stunning. To be fair, though, it’s not an actual sunprint – the chemicals involved would of course be inedible. Instead, it’s blue coloring airbrushed over foliage for the same effect. Could you imagine a […]

Recipe: Make Homemade Fruit Leather

By Katie Goodman Fruit Roll-Ups are fun treats, but they’re not exactly something I want my kids eating every day. I recently experimented with making homemade fruit leather. It’s so good! Recipes like this are perfect for when you have lots of less-than-prime fruit on hand that needs to be used up fast. In this […]