Food & Beverage

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

DIY Magic Shell Recipe

In a move that will surely rock the junk food world to its very foundations (or at the very least, will excite my husband to no end), the Brownie Points blog has posted a recipe for making your very own Magic Shell ice cream topping. You know, the “chocolate” sauce that hardens up to make […]

HOW TO – Make Sparkle Scones

Here’s an easy breakfast treat you can whip up this weekend–you can even give them a crafty touch by using colorful sanding sugar, which I think looks like glitter! Sparkle Scones Ingredients: โ€ข 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour โ€ข 4 teaspoons baking powder โ€ข 1/4 cup white sugar โ€ข 1/8 teaspoon salt โ€ข 5 tablespoons […]

Sierpinski Cookies

The Evil Mad Scientists are at it again, fractals, that is: These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals. As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the […]