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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
[Image: Amazon] Is it possible for cakes to be so bad they're good? Yes, yes it is. And thanks to Jen Yates, we don't have to wait for a baby shower or bat mitzvah invitation to see them. Back in May of 2008, Yates started the blog Cake Wrecks, an online museum of badly-rendered Disney princesses, gratuitous quotation marks, carrot-riding babies, and other wrecky cake artwork by professional bakers. This week, the book version of the frosting debauchery, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, went on sale and it's full of 75-percent never-before-seen material. Thanks to the good folks at Andrews McMeel Publishing, we have five (5) copies of to give away. All you have to do...Photo of the Day: 28-Layer Rainbow Cake
[Photograph: Darius A Monsef IV] We've seen rainbow cakes before, but not one quite like this epic 28-layer cake. Darius says his mom and girlfriend made it for him for his 28th birthday. That's love. Related Epic Rainbow Cake of Nom Rainbow Cake Layers Rainbow Cake Rainbow Carrot Cake...Cake Wrecks, The Book: An Interview with Creator Jen Yates
"The classic Wrecks are those that are misspelled, misunderstood, or trying way too hard to be creative." Since May of 2008, Jen Yates has been documenting moldy feet, pregnant bellies, and misplaced apostrophes spotted on cakes on her wildly popular blog Cake Wrecks. Very quickly, Jen has made a career out of ridiculous cakes. Her new blook (blog-turned-book?) Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong comes out on October 1, and features a bunch of brand-new content. Yes, that means more creepy baby cakes! We chatted with Jen about the Cake Wrecks concept, what holidays are most wreckable, and more. So, let's start at the beginning. The Cake Wrecks creation story. It quite literally began with "The Cake That...Arthur Schwartz's Rosh Hashanah Greatest Hits
[Photograph: Arthur Schwartz] I don't know how, why, or when Jews started making brisket for holiday meals, but it's one ritualized aspect of the Jewish culinary tradition I wholeheartedly embrace. My friend Arthur Schwartz has written many, many wonderful cookbooks, including Jewish Home Cooking. Arthur set out in a wonderfully obsessive way to come up with the definitive, most seriously delicious potted brisket recipe. He experimented with cooking first cut and whole briskets, using liquid and not using liquid, and here's what he eventually came up with. Over on his website Food Maven, he shares all of the great and gory brisket experiment details. And what better way to top off a belly full of beef than with two...Top 10 Food Finds at the Iowa State Fair
[Flickr: kirkmwilkins] Endless Simmer picks the top 10 food finds at the Iowa State Fair, which took place earlier this month. The finds include foods on sticks, fried food on sticks, butter sculptures, and whatever the mystery cake above is that unsurprisingly won a first place ribbon in the Ugliest Cake competition. Related In Videos: Foods on a Stick at the Minnesota State Fair Deep-Fried Coke at the State Fair of Texas What's Your Favorite Food on a Stick? It's Gotta Be Served at the Minnesota State Fair...Video: The Making of a Threadcakes Cake
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....Threadcakes 2009 Winners
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....Cute T-Shirt Alert: Cake Is Awesome
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...Panda Cake
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?...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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