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Kim of Party Frosting made these adorable cookies when she saw wooden tea bag toys. It occurred to her that she could make a tastier alternative out of shortbread. With a touch of chocolate frosting, they really do look like tea bags.
Link -via Tasteologie
These delightful cookies are even geekier than you might think…they were created using a 3D printer to create the cookie cutter. Now all they need is some nice blue frosting.
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Before you get your hopes up, you should know that these are not real unicorn droppings. They’re just cookies that look very much like them. They do not have the magical properties of authentic unicorn poop, but they are probably tasty. You can find the recipe at the link.
Link -via Geekologie
Take Oreo cookies, put them on a stick, dip them in candy, and stick the homemade chocolate numbers on top! Well, these cookie pops aren’t quite that easy, but you can get directions from Jill at Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons so you can make your own before New Year party time! Link
Comments Off There’s no tastier holiday tradition than creating your very own gingerbread house. If you aren’t very talented at sealing cookie bits together, like I am, even your best homes probably look like they’re ready to be condemned upon completion. Fortunately, not everyone is so inept at gingerbread creations and many creators go on to put together their own delightfully geeky designs. Here are some of the best nerdy gingerbread creations around.
They may not be the most artistic gingerbread creations, but these super hero designs by Sugar Swings are certainly adorable and they look absolutely delicious as well.
For those who like their gingerbread men to be a little less chipper and lot more serious, these figureheads of Russian culture by Craftster forum user Woolylogic are a good choice. Choose between Turgenev, Dostoyevsky (above), Tolstoy and Gogol.
Sure anyone can make a one-room gingerbread shack, but turning a unique architectural design into a gingerbread creation takes a heck of a lot more skill. That’s why these great designs by real architecture firms went for so much money when they were auctioned off for charity. In fact, the one above, by Nick Milkovich Architects, Inc., sold for $610.
While this architectural marvel may not look familiar to everyone, Harry Potter fans will instantly recognize it as The Burrow, the adorably charming home of the Weasley clan. Creator mezcraft from the Craftster forums even added the special monogrammed sweaters Mrs. Weasley makes for each of her children at Christmas.
Of course, the most iconic Harry Potter building is Hogwarts and Britta’s incredibly detailed gingerbread version is an impressive tribute to the majesty of the world-famous wizarding school. Best of all, she’s even got pictures of the entire arduous process so you could attempt to make your own at home…with a whole lot of time and dedication.
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These cute cookies with melting snowmen on top were made by professionals at Truly Custom Cakery, but they explain how you can make your own. The tutorial even shows you how to make a melting snowman throwing a snowball! Link -via Fuzzy Dave’s Carousel of Wonderosities
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Endor, under the forest canopy, lies a village made of chocolate, breakfast cereal, and gingerbread! And don’t look now, but there’s a Death Star lurking above. The Canadian baker who blogs under the name The Infinite Yums built this Ewok Village for a charity auction. The post about it has the building process and plenty of pictures of the details. Link -via Boing Boing
Ormie wants a cookie. There’s a reason we put cookies up on top of the refrigerator -so little pigs can’t get them! Ormie does have his own Facebook page, though. Link -via the Presurfer
Alan Travers’ very first stop-motion animation was inspired when his girlfriend Dee said she’d made her “legendary chocolate biscuit cake so many times now that the ingredients could make it by themselves.” Watch them do just that! By the way, “biscuit” is the British term for what Americans call “cookies.” This video was entered in a competition. The voting is closed, but you can learn more about Dee and her cake at Cully & Sully. Link -via Laughing Squid
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This. Changes. Everything.
It never occurred to me to make tart crust out of cookie dough, but here it is. Just shape cookie dough around the outside of your muffin tin and bake with the tin upside down. Then use your imagination for what you can put in the bowls: fruit, yogurt, pudding, ice cream, whipped cream, or nothing at all! Link
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Aren’t these cookies adorable? Too pretty to eat! Darla at Bakingdom made these in honor of the 45th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series on September 8, 1966. Along with her tribute to the show, she also posted the process of designing each cookie to look like a crew member, pictures of the baking process, and close-up views of each character’s cookie. Link -via Boing Boing
Wired recently released this great chart of the most popular flavors of Girl Scout cookies and while it’s interesting and looks great, more than anything else, it just makes me want some Samoas. Is your favorite in the top 5 or in the “other varieties” section?
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This stop-motion music video is made with cookies, eggs, milk, candy, and other foodstuffs. The song is “Chocolate,” from the Mexican duo Jesse & Joy. -via the Presurfer
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Beth Jackson Klosterboer of Hungry Happenings made these adorable cookies that look like fuzzy slippers. The soles are made out of Nutter Butter cookies with fudge on top molded into the uppers. The fuzz consists of pink-tinted chocolate shavings.
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This cute little double hamburger is not a Big Mac -or even a burger! It’s a cheeseburger macaron, made with cookies and fondant. Ladybird x, who made it, calls them “Little Macs.” See the process of making them at Diary of a Ladybird. Link -via The Daily What
What a brilliant idea! The preparation appears to be fairly straightforward, but you’ll need an ice cream scoop to cover the oreos in chocolate chip cookie batter. Or your fingers.
Link via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Picky Palate
This original infographic at Buzzfeed explains why my kids sold Girl Scout cookies for years and never encountered a Tagalong or Samoa, yet people on the internet still claim those are their favorites. You’ll also get a good look at what cookies you can no longer buy from the Girl Scouts. Link
Cartoonist Caldwell Tanner thinks that the Girl Scouts really need to rethink their cookie designs. Here’s one of several proposals that he’s making: wrap the best cookies in the most unappetizing packaging possible.
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Kim Neill is a designer and illustrator has plenty of pantone color chips laying around, which made it easier for her to create cookies in exact pantone colors. She mixed royal icing until the colors were right, and added the color names with an edible marker once the icing was set. Instructions are included in the post. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Emmylou Cakehead and the band The Futureheads collaborated on a tasty art installation unveiled at the charity exhibit Cake Britain (“The world’s first entirely edible art exhibition“) last weekend in London. The piece consists of the lyrics to The Futureheads song “The Chaos” spelled out in vanilla cookies! Cakehead, the cookie bakers, and the band spent a total of 200 hours on the artwork, which was consumed by patrons in a quite a bit less time. Their efforts raised thousands of dollars for St. Oswald’s house, a hospice in the band’s hometown of Newcastle. See more pictures of the cookies and the consumption at Cakehead Loves Evil. Link
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Finally all of you Neatonauts can return to the science of baking with these delightful chemistry cookie cutters. There are four designs in a set and the pack is only $14.95. What a perfect way to geek up your next party!
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Researchers led by Tajuki Narumi at the University of Tokyo created a cookie-eating simulator that allows users to believe that they’re tasting different flavors, when they’re really only tasting one:
To create the effect, the team branded a plain cookie with a distinct logo that the headset tracks via a built-in camera. An air pump sprays out the smell of the chosen cookie, increasing its concentration as the system “sees” the cookie approaching the wearer’s nose.
Meanwhile, a visual display in the headset shows an image of the chosen cookie, suggesting the correct texture for that flavour.
The combination of smell and visual texture combine to fool the user’s sense of taste into thinking they are eating a flavoured cookie instead of the plain one.
Designer Mike Clare made roll cookies that have a marker that can be detected by augmented reality software. When he waves one of the cookies in front of the webcam, his computer displays a colorful symbol on it.
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This picture shows what hydrogen atoms might look like if we could see them.
The chart above shows the appearance of a single hydrogen atom in a few of its lowest excited states. In each of those states, the electron is found in a different orbital, some of which have unfamiliar shapes. But even the term “shape” is a little funny for something that you can’t hold in your hand. These are actually probability density plots, which show the likelihood of observing the electron in any one position at a given time– and more correctly, 2D projections of 3D probability densities.
So even the humble hydrogen atom can be a bit complex. Fortunately, we have advanced technology that can help us cut though the quantum mechanical haze: Cookies!
What we can see (and taste) are cookies made to resemble the shapes of the hydrogen atoms in the chart. The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made these cookies and will show you how you can make them, too! Link
Fffireburns and Matt baked cookies and decorated them to match Lady Gaga’s costumes! Each is shown in close up side-by-side with a photo of the singer wearing the outfit depicted. This took a lot of work. Link -via YesButNoButYes
The blog Not So Humble Pie has a roundup of science-themed cookies. Among them is a picture of the cellular mitosis cookies (above) made by the blogger behind Reflections of a Science Teacher. Others were inspired by centrifugal governors, genome sequences, and a Sierpinski carpet.
Comments Off This is a stop-motion animated video imagines baking cookies using a computer application like Photoshop. It was made by Vimeo user Stafania, a recent graduate of the European Institute of Design in Milan.
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Photo: *Cencula* [Flickr]
When Siebe Warmoeskerken of VTPN (Flickr user siebe) started taking photos of cookies splashing into a cup of coffee, little did he know that he was about to spark a little Flickr meme.
Behold the Coffee Splash! Photo Pool on Flickr, where photographers do their own take of the coffee splash … Link – via Doobybrain
The cookies we all know and love started out as a mistake!
In 1930, a dietitian who owned a tourist lodge was cooking and baking for her guests. Unfortunately, she ran out of the baker’s chocolate she needed for the chocolate cookies that were on the menu. She hurriedly substituted a chocolate bar — cut up into tiny pieces — assuming they would melt. They didn’t — they just softened, instead.
The mistake turned out all right for her in the end, and even brought her a lifetime supply of chocolate! Link -via the Presurfer
Instantly comprehensible to anyone who has spent time in a microbiology lab.
I am still not sure if my streaking technique is up to par on cookies, but hey I’m working with royal icing not agar. However, I did improve my counts of isolated colonies by loading on the nonpareils this time.
The baker/artist’s blog has a variety of other clever culinary concoctions.
Link, via Boing Boing.
