The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Lenore and Windell at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have cooked up a tasty alternative to candy message hearts: shortbread custom message cookies. I personally enjoy the chalky flavor that NECCO has to offer, but I understand that many of you would prefer these cookie alternatives with custom messages sprayed on with stencils. More: CRAFT Valentine’s […]
Beth Johnson from Cloth and Fodder spotted Flickr user gabesnider’s awesome giant squid cake in her research for a friend’s birthday. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with. Related HOW TO – Make an Axolotl Cake
Maya Made shares the recipe and instructions for making these cute heart-shaped pretzels. This is a great project to do with kids!
Don’t look if you are currently vulnerable to a chocolate craving! DesignSponge went in the kitchen with Wendy Dooldeniya and our reward is a recipe for a Chocoholic Torte.
Wendy Tremayne at Holy Scrap Hot Springs (in Truth or Consequences, NM) teaches us how to make easy cheap wine in this video. I’m sure you could fancy up the recipe with some gourmet grape juice if you wanted to experiment!
Via BoingBoing Offworld, Brandon Boyer writes: Say what you will about the game-cake meme, but it’s not often that the cakes themselves are playable, as with quintanaroo’s Cupcakes of Catan. Plus, it’s not often that you discover that they’re not the only edible versions of the game, competing against the Pizza of Catan and the […]
I’ve been super bored with the usual lunches lately, so I’m looking forward to trying out this smashed chickpea salad recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I like her description of it as a “deconstructed hummus”.
