DIY Cactus Cupcakes
Create realistic and cute little cactus and succulent cupcakes for your next shindig! Baker and DIY maker Alana Jones-Mann shows you how in this helpful tutorial.
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Baking with Geology!
The Earth’s crust is divided into four major layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. The crust is approximately 5-30 miles thick, being the thinnest at the oceanic layer (up to 5 miles thick) and the thickest at the continental layer (up to 30 miles thick).
Look out Nomiku. Here Comes Codlo
I’ve been tracking the progress of Nomiku, a consumer class immersion circulator, highest grossing food project on Kickstarter, and Haxlr8r success story. The product aims to bring to fancy restaurant technology into the home kitchen with a device that clips onto a pot of water to heat it to precise temperatures, allowing you to cook meat sous vide. The technique of slow cooking meat in a vacuum sealed bag is de rigueur at high-end restaurants, but out of reach for home users because of the price. While it hasn’t started shipping yet, Nomiku will retail for $359 and the creators call it the first immersion circulator for the home cook. But look out Nomiku. Here’s comes the second sous vide device for the home cook: Codlo
How-To: Star Spangled Jell-O Shooters
If you’re looking to conjure some festive liberty libations for the 4th of July, then look no further than these impressive Star Spangled Jell-O shooters from The Jello Mold Mistress.
How-To: Chicken n’ Waffles Sliders
Trish from Mom On Timeout posted a handy take on the classic chicken n’ waffles dish with this Chicken Ranch Waffle Sliders recipe.
How-To: Make Ice Cream Into Bread in Five Minutes
The Science Channel shared this amazingly simple recipe for ice cream-flavored bread from just ice cream and self-rising flour in 5 minutes!
How To Make a Marriage Equality Cake
Today is a beautiful and historic day for those of us who support the human rights movement. If you want to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision to end DOMA Buzzfeed shows us how to bake a Marriage Equality cake for this beautiful step forward. Did I mention it’s red velvet? IT IS.
