And by “cake,” I don’t mean, “giant pile of fondant.” Too often, artistic cakes are just that. Eating a fondant cake is like eating a bag of refined sugar with a spoon. This one is actually a proper cake.

Stella Parks, the resident chef at BraveTart, made this stunning Eggnog Yule Log cake. It’s a sheet cake, which means that it’s rolled up carefully. That’s hard to do without making cracks in the batter. Stella filled hers with an eggnog-flavored custard. The bark is a mix of buttercream, dark chocolate and liquor. The mushrooms are edible, too. But unlike real mushrooms, these taste good. They’re made of meringue.

You may excitedly open a fresh package of snickerdoodles only to discover that you were deceived: all you purchased were cookies with no elements of Snickers candy bars or Cheez Doodles. Well, your heart and your stomach can now be at rest because Becky McKay, the internet’s Cereal Baker, has finally produced the real thing.

Her recipe uses a Betty Crocker snickerdoodle cookie mix, butter, water, an egg, 20-22 mini Snickers and 1.5 oz. of Cheez Doodles. Becky says that “Cheese Balls and Cheese Puffs are acceptable substitutes.” This is obviously wrong. Use real Cheez Doodles or you aren’t making authentic snickerdoodles.

Roll the dough into balls with each containing a Snickers in the middle. Then roll the balls in crushed Cheez Doodles. Bake them for 10 minutes.

Homemade baked macaroni and cheese is pretty much the most amazing thing in the world -especially with a lot of good cheeses and some good pork products (ham, sausage or bacon) mixed in. If you really want to up the ante though, try ditching the glass pan and use a pumpkin instead. The sweet flavor of the pumpkin is particularly suited to salty, smoky pork meats and the rich, creamy flavor of the cheese. You can find a recipe over at Serious Eats, but don't feel obligated to stick with their choice of cheeses and meats.

I've found tht the more cheeses you work into a mac and cheese, the better it tastes -try to get at least five in there if you can.

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If you're feeling particularly bitter this Christmas due to the recent collapse of a promising relationship, how do you celebrate? Make cookies! Jolly Christmas cookies to mask the smell of desperation and loneliness, flavored with the bitterness of your tears and a generous splash of resentment. But that's okay, right, 'cause you're over it, right? Contains some badly-censored NSFW language. After you watch this, and bake your cookies, you'll probably want to see more videos from Smoothiefreak.  -via Metafilter

A turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. A Cthurkey is an octopus stuffed inside a turkey and garnished with crab legs and bacon. The dish is named in honor of our Lord Cthulhu whose dreadful reign will hopefully begin soon.

Rusty Eulberg, a database administrator in Lubbock, Texas, invented it. His wife is a fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos, so he made this uniquely terrifying dish for her. You can see more photos here.

The next year, Mr. Eulberg and his wife made a Cthicken with a chicken and squid. Next year, he may offer a Cthulu-themed dinner with a deep fried Cthurkey.

-via Kotaku

Anyone who watches the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time knows that the protagonists, Finn and Jake, are always saving the lives of some unfortunate citizens from the Candy Kingdom who are in peril. And yet, with all the good they do for the kingdom, even they would be banished forever if they went around chewing on the delicious looking buildings.

Redditor IHaveAFluffyCat wanted to bring Princess Bubblegum's delicious looking kingdom to life in a way that wouldn't result in banishment for Finn and Jake, so she created a sugary masterpiece she calls the Gingerbread Candy Kingdom.

The whole thing is edible, from the lickable Gumball Guardians to the fluffy cotton candy trees, and she was sweet enough to include a bunch of process photos to get our creative juices flowing.

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The TARDIS may be bigger on the inside, but a creeper explosion near the door would still wipe out a good part of the engine room and maybe even part of the console. This delightful Micecraft and Doctor Who mashup birthday cake was created by Curiaussiety Custom Cakes of Australia. 

That's not their only Minecraft cake, they have also made this fantastic enchantment table and a creeper head topped with Steve, a sword and a pig.

Not a Minecraft fan? Well you should still check out their other great cakes to find goodies like this cool Adventure Time cake.

(Photo: Yamakawa Firefly)

Are you going to eat this meal or is it going to eat you? Don't take any chances and dig in right away. Stab it in the brain with a chopstick.

You can find English-language instructions on how to make your own here. You'll need green drink powder to get the facial coloration just right. The eyes are two halves of a quail egg. A diced quail egg white also provides teeth. The nostrils are sliced seaweed and the infected tongue is a slice of ham.

-via Foodiggity

You may think you're receiving your food in a timely manner when dining at fast food restaurants, but now that this pneumatic tube burger delivery system has been introduced by C One Espresso cafe in New Zealand it seems they may be taking way too long to get that tray of fried goodness delivered to your table.

C One shoots tubes full of burgers and fries straight to the customer in a system they feel is both more efficient and more hygienic, since the food is handled less than when placed on trays by employees outside the kitchen. I can't help but think about how the old bank drive thrus can now be used to deliver burgers straight to my car.

Via Gizmodo

We've talked about Philadelphia's PYT burger restaurant before as they have made a name for themselves by serving spaghetti burgers, deep fried Twinkie burgers and a deep fried lasagna bun burger. Now they're at it again, serving up burgers that are actually topped with deep fried beer in their Beerger. That's right -not beer batter, but frozen PBR wrapped in wontons and crushed pretzel breading and deep fried. The burger has so much beer that the restaurant will actually card you before you order it. 

Via FoodBeast

Coming up with creative ways to waste time can be an artform in itself, and when that time wasting involves creating useless gadgets that make the world a more colorful place then can we really say that time was actually wasted?

Take these sausage covered gloves for example, they were created by Japanese comedy site Daily Portal Z in a fit of inspired time wasting that resulted in a product that has not one but three uses- it keeps the hands warm, serves as a handy snack, and allows you to use your smartphone while wearing gloves. Sausage gloves beg the question- are edible accessories the future of fashion?

Via Kotaku

Science is a critical part of the booze-making process and how alcohol interacts with our bodies, which is why it makes total sense to express alcoholic drinks in a periodic table. This great chart is organized both by type of alcohol and the alcohol by volume of each drink. Plus, it includes what type of beverage the drink is, when it was created and what the main flavor of the drink happens to be. It's a perfect way to organize cocktails. Note that you will probably have to click through to see the whole thing in a size large enough to read it.

My favorite, the white Russian is #61. What about your favorite drink?

Via Food Beast

Looking for something to keep you warm this winter but not really in the mood for plain hot chocolate? Then reach for some delicious eggnog and white chocolate chips and start heating them over the stove on low heat. Serve with some marshmallows, sprinkles and whipped cream and you have a great holiday beverage that is hard to top. Kleinworth & Co. has all the directions you need to make something amazingly rich and beautiful enough to impress any and all of your guests.

It looks tasty, doesn’t it? There’s Chihuahua cheese and chipotle mayonnaise with fresh lettuce, onion and tomato on a bun. Also crickets. That’s the heart of the flavor for the Grass-Whopper.

Antojeria Popular in Queens, New York, sells, among other dishes, the above Grass-Whopper and the below Cricket Tostada. They’re quite popular. Customers buy about 100 Grass-Whoppers a day. Artist Pedro Reyes conceived of the burger as a way to make eating insects a mainstream activity. The crickets are shipped to the restaurant dried, then fried in a skillet. They have a smoky flavor and crunchy texture.

-via Foodiggity

(Photos: Antojeria Popular)

We just can’t get enough of that fresh popped popcorn smell, but until now if you wanted to carry that savory smell around you either had to douse yourself in artificial butter flavoring or strap a popcorn maker to your back.

Now, thanks to Pop Secret and their horribly named product the Popcorn Dongle, iPhone users can take that wonderful smell with them wherever they go, provided they are playing the game Poptopia.

The longer you play the game the more popcorn smell is released, and until some techie figures out how to hack the device so it emits that popcorn smell whenever you want, you’ll have to give in to Poptopia if you want that savory smell all around you.

Via DesignTAXI