Tag: baking
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New Laser Engraved Rolling Pins Imprint Elaborate Designs on Baked Goods
When we last wrote about Zuzia Kozerska of Valek Rolling Pins (previously), she practically set the interwebs on fire with lasers, more specifically her laser engraved rolling pins that imprint different patterns in cookie dough. Kozerska has been hard at work creating increasingly more complex designs as well as special mini pins just for kids. You…
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Time to Bake With The Coolest Rolling Pins Ever!
When we last showed you Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska‘s awesome series of laser-engraved rolling pins (see HERE), there was so much interest in them that the resultant traffic crashed her site! (sorry Zuzia!) So with the Holiday Season/Christmas/Festivous/New Year period fast approaching, why not consider one of Zuzia’s amazing rolling pins to bring a little bit of extra sparkle to your baking…
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Scrum-didly-umptious Meals That Are Actually CAKES
For the last 10 years, Debbie Does Cakes has been creating custom sculpted cakes for customers in the San Francisco Bay area. By Debbie’s account, “a sculpted cake is a cake carved by hand to resemble anything other than cake”. Debbie does not design traditional cakes of any kind, focusing strictly on one of a kind centerpieces;…
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Competition Showcases the Most Amazing Cakes You’ll Ever See
The Threadcakes online cake competition, which wrapped up on November 3rd this year, features some of the most stunning works of cake art we’ve ever seen. The contest, which has been running annually since 2007, invites both professionals and amateurs to create cakes in either the 2D or 3D categories based on art from the…
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Photo Series Showing the Difference in Calories Between Desserts Made With Unhealthy & Healthy Ingredients
One of the most popular blogs we’ve ever posted showed what 200 calories looked like in different foods. Since this blog went viral all over the interwebs (15 million views and counting!), we’ve had our thinking caps on to find a suitable follow up. And we think we’ve done it. With the help of Jess at My…
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The Most Creative Chocolate Creations You Have Ever Seen!
Chocolate has come a very long way since it first appeared in its solid form in Europe in the 1800s. Today, artists can manipulate and mold this sweet and delicious confection to create works of art or cleverly designed treats. Before European confectioners even thought of giving chocolate a solid form, civilizations in Mesoamerica had…
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The Most Creative Cakes That Are Too Cool To Eat!
Some of us eat with our eyes as well as our mouths, so for us, food presentation is as important, if not more so, than the taste. These cakes are perfect examples – we can’t taste them (unfortunately), but most of them look as delicious as can be. Most of these cakes owe their artistic…
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An Edible CAKE Library That Will Stop You in Your Tracks!
Kathy Knaus has recently been discovered for her creative capabilities with cakes. She designs everything from sugary sushi rolls to a scaled-down fashion studio, but her most exceptional work is her multi-tiered library cake. In this fabulous creation, Knaus has hand-designed the interior section of a public library. The miniature display features a tiny table,…
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Super Creative Rolling Pins Create Super Cool Baked Goodies!
Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska creates amazing laser-engraved wooden rolling pins that print a multitude of different designs onto cookie dough. She has a number of standard designs available over on Etsy, but creates customized pins to order. Do you love them as much as we do? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art…
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Hilarious Pinterest Art and Craft Project FAILS!
Just because Pinterest projects involve simple ingredients like toothpicks, watercolors, socks and cookie dough… it does NOT mean that you won’t fail hilariously every time you attempt one of these. Meticulously sewing together all of your socks and then dying them alternate colors doesn’t look fun or easy. Because it isn’t. Have you attempted (and…