Jello Shamrocks
Zakka Life is seeing green with her recipe on how to make Jello Shamrocks. Link.
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Make-Ahead Monkey Bread
Bake and Shake shares an amazing-sounding recipe for Make-Ahead Monkey Bread. Her description of this treat–“…a blissful, sticky dome of yeasty rolls cloaked in caramelized sugar and butter, with toasted pecans adding crunch…”–really says it all, don’t you think? Link.
Edible Characters from Eugene and Louise Bakery
Drawn posted about Eugene and Louise Bakery in Belgium that makes great characters out of marzipan. Check out the Marzipan treat gallery on their site. [via] Link.
CInderblock Sugarcubes
Check out these fun sugarcubes made to look like miniature cinder blocks! They were created by artist Jon Truex (in collaboration with Audrey Russel). Unless you’re Smurf-sized, you probably won’t be able to build anything useful with them, but they sure would be a fun way to sweeten up your drink. [via] Link.
The Midcentury Supper Club
I just stumbled upon this fun Flickr group called the Midcentury Supper Club, where participants made recipes from old-school cookbooks and post their photos online. The above pic by Miss Retro Modern features a “Ham and Egg Combo” made with fake ham, mayo, and cheese. As the author notes, “I’d like to tell you all […]
HOW TO – Make Bacon Curls
Megan at Not Martha shares her experiments in creating curly bacon straws–perfect for the next time you want to make a Shirley Temple doll out of meat. Link.
Yoda Cake
Bonnie of the Star Wars Blog points us to this realistic little Yoda cake by Socake. His torso is cake covered with buttercream, and dressed with fondant clothing, arms, and feet. The skull is made of chocolate brown Rice Krispies. Fondant makes up the features of the head, including those distinctively-Yoda-ish ears. [ via ] […]
