Don’t let the Love Bugs bite
Love Bugs from The Decorated Cookie Blog
These were great back at Valentine’s Day, but even after the fact, I can see them making adorable little Martians. Can you picture them in green?
Dip them in chocolate first like I did with these marshmallow pops and the kids will go even crazier. Well, maybe that’s not such a good thing after all, but at least the treats will be adorable.
Ice cream nail art – No biting your nails!
So while looking up Katy Perry pictures, I ran across some awesome nail art. Check out this ice cream cone painted onto a fingernail:
Better yet, here’s the tutorial for how to do it, plus a shot at all the nails on that hand which have other variations of ice cream treats. Yum.
I found some others, too, but they’re quite a bit different. It’s actually 3D!
From iKandy
If you can’t be bothered to do it yourself, you can buy nails with charms already attached like these:
Or these:
Or you could make your finger look like it’s actually part of the ice cream creation, too:
Or heck, why spread out the sweet treats to multiple nails when you could put them all on one even:
Or how about getting right to the source of the ice cream with this route of Ben and Jerry’s instead?
Maybe paint with ice cream shaped nail polishes…
If painting your nails or wearing fake acrylic ones just isn’t your thing, you could always just store your nail care stuff in an ice cream zippered pouch instead:
Okay, okay, that’s more than enough, lol.
No wait, one more. Doesn’t this shape just beg to be turned into an ice cream cone nail instead?
Homemade is Best – IKEA’s visual cookbook with picture recipes
That is the recipe for these cinnamon rolls:
Toxel had people arguing and criticizing about how useless it is, but I really think a lot of people missed the idea of it being photographic art and less of a “real cookbook” replacement. It could be used as a real recipe, but if you’re someone who lives by very specific measurements with detailed instructions, you’d definitely have a harder time with these visual guidelines.
Here’s another example, using a berry cake:
From IKEA, here’s a bit about their inspiration and motivation for creating a book like this:
We wanted to ensure a connection between IKEA’s kitchen appliances and one of the best things you can do in a kitchen, some great baking. So the main attraction in the campaign became a 140 page coffee-table baking book presented in a very visually unique and spectacular way.
90% of all the photographs taken in baking books look extremly alike. We wanted to try something different and present the recipes in a totally new fashion.
We let ourselves be inspired by high fashion and japanese minimalism. The idea of the book became to tone down the actual cake and put the ingredients in focus. The recipes are presented as graphic still-life portraits on a warm and colourful stage. And when you turn the page you see the fantastic result.
The baking book contains 30 classic swedish baking recipes everything from small biscuits to large cakes.
I think they did a pretty good job at what they were aiming for. This site actually has what looks to be all (or most) of the recipes.
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