As one of those people who has a serious addiction to Tard, aka Grumpy Cat, I'm determined to not only buy, but to consume the new Grumpy Cat coffee drinks. The thing is, I hate coffee, so I will be miserable the whole time I drink it. You know what Tard would say about that? "Good."
Getting peanut butter out of a jar is no problem -until the jar is half-empty. Then, getting the rest out often involves getting your whole hand in the jar. But a new design called Jar With A Twist from a group of mechanical engineering students at North Carolina State University can change all that! It works somewhat like a push-up ice cream treat, in that the bottom gets pushed up as the product is used. It's also like a deodorant stick in that it twists its way to the top. But everything about the design is food-safe, and since the food is exposed to less air over time, it will stay fresher! The Jar With A Twist could be used for many viscous products like peanut butter, jelly, jam, frosting, cheese dip, salsa, and marshmallow cream. The group is working to market the idea to condiment companies. Link -via Fast Co Design
This cake is great for house unification because you can't have a slice that represents just Slytherin or Hufflepuff. You can learn how to put together your own Hogwarts cake over at Bakingdom.
Mad food scientist Becky McKay is your go-to person for insane food combinations, such as pizza roll-stuffed cupcakes and corndog-stuffed brownies. If there's a food product, she can stuff inside another one.
Most recently, she's taken up the cronut craze by baking little sugar donuts inside freshly baked cronuts. You can find her recipe at the link.
Screw shawarma! The best Avengers dish you'll ever eat is this Captain America's Breakfast S.H.I.E.L.D., from Kitchen Overlord:
Ingredients:
One tortilla
One egg
Four drops of blue food coloring
2 tbsp refried beans
4 tbsp salsa
1 slice mozzarella or other white sandwich cheese
2-3 tbsp mozzarella or other shredded white cheese
... and a healthy dose of awesomeness: Link
Rhiannon at Cakecrumbs loves science and baking. One would have to, to devote the time, skill, and artistry necessary to this Jupiter cake she made. Icing the atmosphere alone took eight hours! But that's not the extent of the realism. The inside of the cake is also as accurate as we know about Jupiter.
When my sister asked me what I was making and I said Jupiter, she said to me, “I didn’t even know Jupiter had layers.” It’s amazing how much we can forget after learning it in primary school. So here’s a rehashing for those of you who’ve also forgotten. Our knowledge is mostly theoretical of course, but the gas giants are thought to have a core comprised mostly of rock and ice. This is surrounded by a layer liquid metallic hydrogen, and the outer layer is composed of molecular hydrogen. *cake is totally not to scale
In cake speak, this translates to a core made of mudcake, surrounded by almond butter cake, surrounded by a tinted vanilla Madeira sponge. There’s a crumb coat of vanilla buttercream underneath the fondant.
Read more about the making of Jupiter, and see more pictures at her blog. Link -via Bad Astronomy
You knew it was coming. When we told you about cronut, the donut and croissant hybrid, two months ago (before it became hip, mind you) - I was counting the days till someone came up with the logical next step: cronut holes.
Well, it took some time for the craze to sweep the country, but cronuts and their sidekick cronut holes are now here on the West Coast. I snapped this photo at a local bakery in Southern California.
Mike Warren's chilled no-bake cake would be perfect on a hot summer day. He cut a cylinder out of a whole watermelon, then added whipped cream, nuts and sliced fruits.
For some people, double stuff doesn't have nearly enough filling. For others, even regular Oreos have a little too much filling. That's why Redditor EternallyXIII invented the Moreo, the best innovation in Oreos since their creation. Seriously, someone get Nabisco on the line to get these things made.
Link Via The Consumerist
Forget glass bowls, bread bowls or even tortilla bowls. The bacon bowl allows you to eat all of your favorite foods inside a tasty, crunchy, fatty bowl made out of bacon. Of course, you could just put your bacon inside a muffin tin and avoid buying another stupid gizmo.
Via The Consumerist
At Pizza Hut restaurants in China, the onetime policy was that you got one trip to the salad bar, with one dish. Some customers took that as a challenge, and began to construct artful stacks of food to see how much they could get in one trip. The idea spread, and became somewhat of a competition, with photos posted online of the huge stacks of food -all on one plate. Pizza Hut was not amused, as most of the food was wasted. They announced in 2009 that the salad bars would be removed from restaurants in China. Although a few still remain, the practice of stacking salad towers has mostly died out. But there are plenty of pictures, many of which you'll see at Kotaku. Link -via mental_floss
Every year I spend about a month using a pressure canner to preserve the bounty of the backyard garden. That's child's play compared to the way Alaska residents do home canning. In a land where store-bought groceries can bankrupt you, the tradition is to shift the jar supply constantly to what's available or in season. Alaskans can everything from bear meat to mushrooms, stocking it away for future meals.
"If it stops crawling long enough, we'll put it in a jar," says Jon Rowan, a schoolteacher in the town of Klawock, on the island's west side.
Rowan hunts, harvests and cans nearly every sort of creature that lives in the diverse, rain-drenched ecosystem of the region. His cellar is crammed with hundreds of jars of salmon, halibut, rockfish, lingcod, deer and even seal, which Rowan can legally shoot because he — like many of the island's several thousand people — has Native American roots.
Seal blubber, Rowan says, is cooked for hours before going into the jar. It may be used for cooking or simply melted over rice — "kind of like how you use soy sauce at a Chinese restaurant," Rowan says.The meat of local seals is also canned.
Read more about the serious business of Alaskan canning practices at NPR's The Salt blog. Link -via Digg
(Image credit: Alastair Bland/for NPR)
Charm City Cakes has unveiled their latest masterpiece: the Sharknado cake! It's a miracle of engineering and confectionary delight. What kind of party would one order a Sharknado cake for? It doesn't matter -I want to be invited! Link
Did you know the 23rd was National Hot Dog Day? I certainly didn't, but if I did, I'd certainly have tried my hand at making one of the many tasty dogs featured on Food Beast that day. I'm particularly interested in the poutine dog by Portland's The Daily Dog.
Peanut butter, marshmallow cream and chocolate all together in creamy frozen goodness? Sign me up for that ice cream party. You can make your own at home with the instructions from This Gal Cooks.
