Entries tagged with 'cakes'
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How to make a Threadcakes cake: get lots of fondant, make lots of cake batter, mold it and paint it look like a Threadless design, and, god knows how many hours later, you have an edible work of art! Oh yeah—you need to have pastry skills and artistic talent. Check out the making of this awesome Threadcakes cake based off the Sketchbook Life design, after the jump....
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How exactly do you cut this? The winners of Threadcakes, the awesometastic contest where people designed cake versions of t-shirts sold on Threadless, were announced this week. "Noah Express" was the grand prize winner of the 3D cake category, originally inspired by the biblical zoo of a scene on this shirt. According to winner Jennifer Flynn, the gumpaste was the most frustrating part of the process—and don't even get her started on the snake. Check out all of the winners here. If there was ever a polar opposite of Cakewrecks, this would be it....
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Two good reasons to get this shirt: cake is awesome (as are electric guitars), and Threadless is currently having a sale! $15 on Threadless until Monday, August 17. Related Cute T-Shirt Alert: Horror Story-Inspired Fast Food Pancakes Mountain T-Shirt, Plus Other Pancake Outerwear The Icecreamator T-Shirt 'Playin' in the Sprinkler' T-Shirt...
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New to us, via Neatorama, comes panda bread. It's sure to make the hearts of panda lovers everywhere explode with rainbows. Or, if you've ever wanted to eat pandas, this can be your socially safe panda-eating outlet. Basically, it requires strategic folding of various colored doughs (green tea, cocoa) to form the ULTIMATE panda in baked form. Make sure to check out the original Japanese recipe to see other examples of panda cakes, some of which I'm sorry to say look like mutant strains of panda. Because nothing says "I love you" like a panda cake. Related Rubik's Cube Sandwich What's the Prettiest Dessert You've Ever Seen?...
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Photo from Big Red Kitchen via Photograzing If you glance at this photo and see a pile of summer peaches, look again. Robin Sue from Big Red Kitchen shares her recipe for miniature peach cakes, which really could pass for the real thing: yellow cake for the base, buttercream frosting for the crease, and colored sugar to create the "fuzz," plus a cinnamon stick stem and peppermint leaf. More photos on her site, here....
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Phtograph from James Provost on Flickr Here's a sweet idea for tech-geeks: a colorful circuit board made out of candy! Sarah Jargstorf made this cake topper out of chocolate, frosting, and candy to go on her boyfriend's birthday cake. [via Neatorama] Related: Circuit Boards Powered by Corn Syrup...
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Photograph from 17 and Baking If you're tired of the typical berry-dotted Flag Cake, Elissa of 17 and Baking has a creative Fourth of July dessert recipe for you: layered hidden flag cake! The flag, featuring an outer blue ring of cake, only appears when you cut into the cake. Elissa explains how to construct the cake and shares a recipe for cream cheese frosting. [via @bakingbites] Related 4th of July: What's on Your Menu? Celebrating July Fourth with a Plop (Not a Bang) A Fruitful Crisp for the 4th of July...
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Photograph by Lance Iversen for The San Francisco Chronicle At the Blue Bottle Coffee Bar, in the Rooftop Garden at the San Francisco MOMA, pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman sculpts desserts that model the paintings within the museum—like the Piet Mondrian-style cake pictured above. Food is often called a form of art, but this cake is pretty incredible. What's the prettiest dessert that you've ever seen?...
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Last year's Threadcakes winner by Vapidintuition, based on "Insomnia" From now until August 3, people who love wearing Threadless t-shirts and designing cakes can enter the Threadcakes baking competition. Make a cake that best resembles a Threadless design for the chance to win great prizes—mostly t-shirts and chocolate! Check out the gallery of previous submissions at their website. Related Cute T-Shirt Alert: Horror Story-Inspired Fast Food 'Playin' in the Sprinkler' T-Shirt The Icecreamator T-Shirt...
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Photograph from snoboogie on Flickr You really want a red velvet cake for your wedding, but you also want a model of the town square from Back to the Future? No problem: here's a Back to the Future-themed red velvet cake, brought to you by Caryn's Cakes. [via BuzzFeed] Related Photo of the Day: Pac-Man Wedding Cake Photo of the Day: Super Mario Kart Wedding Cake Photo of the Day: M&M Candy Wedding Cake...
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