Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Pancake Dinosaurs

Matt Mets @ Make: Online writes: Jim of Jim’s Pancakes made this delicious looking 3D Dinosaur Bones Pancake for his daughter. He doesn’t have directions on this specific build yet, however you can get the general idea from his flower tutorial. And here I thought I was doing pretty well by making smiley faces!

Easy Stuffed Pasta Tip

This past Friday and weekend, I got to spend some quality IRL (in real life) time with our food writer, Katie Goodman of Good Life Eats at BlogHer Food in San Francisco. A post on my experience there will be coming soon but first, check out her great tip on how to make mess free […]

How-To: Bloody Brain Cupcakes

Make these bloody brain cupcakes that will sure to leave your Halloween party guests saying both “Eww” and “Yum” at the same time. Featuring raspberry jam on top as the blood and marzipan brain baked inside, these cupcake treats are also fun for the little ghosts and goblins before the run off for a night […]

How-To: Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal

I love this recipe from Cooking With My Kid for baking a hearty fall oatmeal right inside a sugar pumpkin. My kid assisted by scooping all the seeds and stringy bits out of the pumpkin and also selected which ingredients we’d include inside. You can really add anything you like to the oats – dried […]

How-To: Cauldron Cupcakes

Meg of Mega-Crafty shares how she baked and decorated these cool cauldron cupcakes for Halloween. She has some clever tricks for coating and frosting the cupcakes, and the result is a fun, unique Halloween party treat. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool […]