What are those and what are they doing in my kitchen? Those are cross stitch hoops and the idea of using them for cakes came to me as I was working on a cross stitch project. Are you seeing it yet?
Okay, here’s the thing. If you know me or your regular reader, than you know I like to inhale cake like people inhale air. But if you take a look around the blog, I don’t actually do too many full size layered cakes. You’ll find lots of mini, bundts and various other cakes, but not the beautiful layered cakes you will find here, here, here, here and here.
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Admit it, you love a filled cupcake like you love a jelly of creme filled donut. It’s the kind of thing that begs and pleads you to take a bigger bite towards the center for the mother load.
Stuff, fill or inject – there are a variety of ways to creating a well for making a filled cupcake.
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Wood Boards for Food Photography ~ This is a quick do-it-yourself post for all my food blogging friends or anyone who has ever wanted to know how to make aged and weathered looking wood boards for food photography or any other project you may need them for.
DIY: How to make antiqued and weathered looking boards for food photography
I’ve been blogging for a little over a year now and for half that time I have been in search of antiqued, aged and weathered looking wood boards like the ones I’ve used in my last four post. To my surprise there wasn’t anyone selling anything like this out there. At one point I thought about buying old barn side wood, but the shipping was outrageous and the colors limited to red, blue and white. » Read the rest of this entry «
