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What is more quintessentially American than a 3-foot-tall Abraham Lincoln Gingerbread Statue? It's completely edible and made with rice krispie treats, chocolate, fondant, royal icing, cookies, and peppermint sticks. This was completed by Patti Paige of Baked Ideas.

Located at Le Parker Meridien in NYC, it's a good thing the statue is some 2,800 miles away from the Neatorama offices. While I would feel very guilty about eating the 16th President's bow tie, eat it I would.

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Not only does this cherry cordial chocolate look awesome all concealed like a Death Star, it also looks delicious, being as how it is filled with not one, but three cherries!

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The folks at the Canoe Brewpub decided to get their holiday geek on by building this adorable Millenium Falcon gingerbread house. Even fondant Chewie and that candy Tauntaun in the back sport smiles of approval for this edible art homage to Star Wars. 

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There are a lot of people who don't like cake pops for one reason or another, but even those people might still like these tasty planet pops that are actually frosted peanut butter balls on a stick. Of course, when they look this awesome, taste isn't everything anyway.

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Homemade marshmallows are the bomb. If you've made them already, you might want to branch out into odd flavored marshmallows, like this recipe that flavors them with legal distillery moonshine. Smooth! They could go into the s'more shown, which also feature homemade graham crackers. The recipe is from Caitlin Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee. Link -via Laughing Squid

Cake pops are so yesterday! Winter is the season for pie, and these pie pops will impress everyone at your holiday party. Easy to make, with instructions from Chris at Celebrations. Link -via Buzzfeed

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Want to keep your beer cool in style? Look no further than the Pirate Chest Cooler. Just an ordinary Igloo cooler, some ordinary wood and paint, turned into an extra-ordinary pirate booty beer cooler. See what I did there? Thanks to Redditor ShutUpLori you can have one now too.

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Talk about Christmas spirit! These cocktails and toddies are named The Grinch, The Sugar Cookie Shot, Candy Cane Shooters, The Gingerbread Martini, Bourbon Apple Crisp Shooters, and Boozy Hot Chocolate. They sound like sinfully sweet holiday desserts, but they all definitely contain alcohol. Guess which one is pictured here! Links to each recipe are in the titles at Foodbeast. Link -via Fark

Chanukah is next week, which gives you just enough time to perfect your latkes (unless they are already perfect, in which case a little practice still doesn't hurt). In a post titled The Complete, No-Nonsense, Slightly Neurotic Guide to Making Great Latkes, Max Falkowitz of Serious Eats gives you more than just a recipe; he explains the tricks behind making real latkes that aren't potato pancakes or hash browns, plus warnings about the many things that could go wrong and how to avoid them. Link -via Metafilter  

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The ingenious canida, inventor of the mutant baby costume, slasher ice cream cake mask, and taxidermied computer mouse, has a great treat for the holidays. Canida shaped bacon-flavored jello into a realistic slab of bacon! You can find the recipe at the link.

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Behold, a tribute to ramen tendered in LEGO bricks! This was created by Lego enthusiasts at the University of Tokyo.

The display was part of the school’s 63rd Komaba Festival which hosts more than 100,000 people and is one of Tokyo’s largest festivals. The exhibition piece was inspired by Ramen Jiro, a tokyo-based ramen shop that is renown throughout the country and has even made The Guardian’s 50 Best Things to Eat in the World.

See the soup it was modeled on at Foodbeast. Link -via mental_floss

Lollyphile, the folks who brought us the maple bacon lollipop, has a selection of lollipop flavors for adults, including the intriguing absinthe flavor. Others taste like Habanero tequila, whisky, and white Russian. No, they do not contain alcohol; they just taste like it. Link -via Laughing Squid

The Manhattan bakery Macaron Parlour offers every kind of macaron you could want including Earl Grey tea, s'more, tiramisu and bacon. This one, flavored inside and out with Cheetos dust, is perfect for game night.

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Help yourself. Eat as much as you like. Christina Agapakis can make more cheese for you. She uses bacteria from the human body to produce cheese starter cultures:

Swabs from hands, feet, noses, and armpits were inoculated into fresh, pasteurized, organic whole milk and incubated overnight at 37° Celsius. The milk curds were then strained and pressed, yielding unique smelling fresh cheeses.

Seconds, anyone?

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I love turkey and stuffing, but with multiple family meals for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus leftovers, the classics can start to get tiresome quickly. That's why it's nice to dig into something different here and there and if you're looking for an original dish to add to your family holiday meal, Mental Floss has some great tips, including the banana ham cassarole above. Sure it sounds weird, but that's not always a bad thing.

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