Food & Beverage

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

Amazing Cake Decorating

This cake decoration is blowing my mind. It’s made of sugar, people! The photo comes from grabyourfork’s wrap up of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Besides over-the-top cakes, did you know that Sydney also celebrates Easter with woodchopping contests and a flame throwing dinosaur called the Robosaurus? [via tastespotting]

Red Hot Jello

I feel oddly compelled to try Ali at Gimme Some Oven!’s Red Hot Jello. I don’t usually eat Jello, and those cinnamon red hot candies aren’t really my bag. But combined together, with applesauce? I mean … it’s just an unknown. I have to satiate my urge to experience the taste! And the texture! Has […]

Flashback: One-Week Wine

With berry season right around the corner, I got to thinking back on Alastair Bland’s One-Week Wine tutorial from the pages of CRAFT Volume 03. Alastair crafted his first batch using wild-harvested mulberries, while bike-touring around the Greek countryside. Doesn’t get much eco-friendlier than that! Read on to whip up your own batch and pick […]