Absolutely Amazing DIY Birthday Cakes! Parenting.com has a fabulous birthday cake gallery/tutorial that is nothing short of AMAZING! Each of the 31 cakes in this gallery comes with step-by-step instructions on how you can recreate it at home. There’s some serious creativity & resourcefulness going on here! Pictured at top: Castle cake – featuring ice cream cone turrets…SWEET! Pictured below: Pirate Ship and Soccer Ball cakes. This Lion cake design is adorable too… especially the chow-mein noodle “mane”! More favorites pictured below: Purse Cake with Giant Tootsie Roll handle, Train Birthday Cake – Engine (also check out the entire train cake) ,Ladybug cupcakes, Snake cupcakes, Dump Truck cake, ridiculously clever French Fries cake (toasted pound cake slices with red frosting dip!) Click here for a thumbnail view of all 31 cakes!
How to Make Pizza Without Dough | « LXRCUISINE I was getting kind of sick of ordering delivery pizza (this happens at least 2-3 times a month). It was time to put a spin on gourmet pizza, but I just didn't know what it would be. Without pizza dough or an oven that is capable of creating the perfect pizza crust (I don't have an oven that can go up to a 1000 degrees), I decided I would use potatoes instead. For 4 small, personal sized pizzas 4" in diameter, you will need: 2 large potatoes peeled and cleaned4 teaspoons salt (to flavor the potatoes) I'm doing four different flavor combinations here, and the measurements for each combination will top 4 small pizzas or 1 large pizza. Cheese & pepperoni pizza: 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese1/4 cup marinara sauce10 slices of pepperoni (or as much as you like)7-8 leaves of fresh basil Mushroom swiss and ham pizza: 1/2 cup chopped ham1 cup cooked mushroomssalt & pepper to taste2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon olive oil4 slices of swiss cheese Shrimp scampi pizza: Bleu cheese & arugula pizza:
The Brownie Project Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies Finished photos updated Jan 15, 2013 by Jenny Flake Welcome to the ORIGINAL Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe! You’ll find my recipe that was taken all over the web, but please note, this is my original recipe Thanks!! I know it’s the New Year and most of us are watching what we eat, but do take a peek at this cookie my mom and I whipped up last week during my stay in AZ! Remember these next time you need a fun new cookie to bring somewhere, they’ll be a huge hit! Break out the Double Stuff Baby!! Cream your butter and sugars It was fun using an actual electric mixer at my moms. Time for some eggs. …and the dry ingredients. Add your chocolate chips and now we are ready! First things first, take a cookie scoopful of dough and place it on top of your Oreo Cookie Now, do the same thing to the bottom side. Can you just imagine how crazy good these are?! Seal the baby up and place onto a cookie sheet. There they are, and yes they are the size of small heads! Time to bake Ingredients Directions
Fancy Macaroni I’m not going to say much. Just this: Make this sometime over the holidays. Serve it on Christmas Eve with your roast beef. Serve it the day after Christmas with a big Caesar salad. Eat it straight out of the pan after you’ve wrapped your last gift at 11:47 on Christmas Eve. It’s Fancy Macaroni. You want it in your life. Start with two medium onions. Cut them in half from root to tip, then lop off the tops. Then peel off the outer layer and slice the onions into pretty thin slices. Meanwhile, fry up some bacon until it’s not quite crisp. Then chop it into pieces and set it aside. Melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a skillet over medium-low heat, then throw in the onions. Cook them, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 12 minutes. And now it’s time for my favorite time. Fontina! And Parmesan. And with that, Ree became a very happy woman. And finally, to add a little tangy creaminess, a hunk of goat cheese. So now we have the good stuff ready: cheese, onions, and bacon. And the Heavens opened up and sang.
25 Awesome Geek cakes There’s always room for dessert and nothing beats a fresh and cleverly made geek cake. In recent years “Geek cakes” have become an art form, hopefully not your pet name used by your significant other. One thing is certain, if geeks love a thing, chances are it will become a cake. So, we wanted to take a look at some of our favorite geek desserts and celebrate the clever bakers and icing artists that make geek birthdays and weddings just a bit more fun. This Atari 2600 cake complete with joysticks is retro-liscious. Rubik’s Cube cake. Guitar Hero cakes rock the bakery. I want to run my finger along one of it’s trenches as if I’m an X-Wing collecting icing on my wings. Here’s a cake with a guy from the Max Rebo band. Yoda. Millenium Falcon cake Leia and Luke kissing is just wrong R2-D2 cake. Dalek cake has brought friends. iPhone cupcakes. An iPhone cake. Mario Cakes are a 1up for your tastebuds. Mario again. Mario with coinbox. Mario cupcakes. Mario Wedding cake. Lego Batman cake. Star Trek Bridge.
Copycat Candy Recipes To make all of these Instructables, download this collection of How To’s as an ebook. Download » "Copycat Candy Recipes" is your backstage pass to famous brand-name candies! You've grown up eating these classic brand name candies, now you can recreate them at home. Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Sarah James Editor, Food & LivingInstructables.com My Fridge Food - Recipes you already have in your Fridge Mike's Amazing Cakes cookie dough truffles « The Domestic Mama & The Village Cook Oh baby. Oh yes. You can have your dough and eat it too. WOOOOOO~HOOOOO! So, these are no-bake, addictive and may even help you win friends and influence people, rumor has it. It makes a lot, so be sure and share. I told you it makes a lot. You don’t have to dip them, either. But, I did dip some, too…. had to do something with all that chocolate. To make these you will need: Cookie dough truffles 1/2 cup softened salted butter 3/4 cup light brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1 (14oz) can of sweetened condensed milk 2 1/4 c flout * this is a word spell-check always gets me back with{grr} flour is a great substitute for flout-whatever flout is. 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips So easy: combine (in a bowl,) the butter, sugar,vanilla,and sweetened condensed milk. Now, you may be able to form this into balls at this point. Melt 12 oz chocolate chips with 1 tbs shortening or butter. Now, you can dip the balls using a spoon- or fill pastry bags with the melted chocolate and drizzle. [/print_this]
Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain Cupcake Couture Recently, Icing Designs held a cupcake contest to create a couture inspired cupcake in honor of their cupcake inspired stationary line. Cupcakes, dresses, an excuse to decorate... sounded like fun!! I drew up some cupcake designs based on couture dresses with a floral theme.. ...I wanted the cupcakes to be pretty and unpractical like couture dresses. This is the one that I entered to the contest. And I won!! To make the cupcake I started by rolling out gum paste, painting it with petal dust, and then cutting out triangles with a gumpaste tool (although any knife would work) Then I wrapped the triangle around a stick... ..and shaped the base of the decoration into a point and set aside to dry. The next day I baked up some vanilla cupcakes and whipped up some swiss meringue butter cream and arranged the gumpaste "petals" from biggest to smallest. For the rest of the couture collection I kept the floral inspired theme. And these three got piped buttercream petals.
Inspiration and ideas of dessert recipes such as cupcakes and muffins, pies and cakes, cookies, biscuits and brownies French Fries: The No-Guilt Version There’s nothing like a french fried potato. The taste, the texture, the dip-ability; it’s probably one of my favorite go-to comfort foods. However, I don’t need the fat of an actual deep fried potato, and I certainly do not favor processed french fries that come from the frozen food section of the grocery store. Enter: Healthy French Fries* Step 1: Peel your ‘taters. This isn’t necessary, though, but if you decide you want the skin on make sure you scrub-wash them first. Step 2: Cut them into strips. Step 3: Place potatoes in colander and rinse the starch off of them. Step 4: Pat down the potatoes. Step 5: Drizzle Olive Oil over potatoes. Step 6: Salt those babies up. Step 7: Mix them up so they all get coated with the olive oil and salt. Step 8: Arrange them, on a baking sheet, in a single layer Step 9: Add anything else you like. Step 10: Place the potatoes into your preheated oven for 20 minutes. Step 11: Flip and continue to bake for 5-10 minutes. And then, voila… Healthy French Fries Enjoy!