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Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Easter Bunny Cake

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Photo By Gail

While grabbing a sandwich at Paris Baguette, I spotted this adorable Bunny Cake in the pastry case and had to snap a pic. Shaped like a bunny and filled with strawberry and banana swirled roll cake (omg), this little guy is coated in luscious vanilla buttercream and sprinkled all over with coconut for that authentically  “fuzzy” appearance. Honestly, it’s almost too cute to eat — almost. Is it worth the $47.99 price tag? If you ask me, for something this festive and photogenic (and presumably delicious), probably yes. It’s a centerpiece, a dessert, and a conversation starter all in one. Hoppy Easter, indeed!

Design and Innovation

Delightful Edible Sugar Flowers for Cakes: The Ultimate Guide

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The Art of Creating Stunning Edible Sugar Flowers

Mastering the Basics: Essential Tools for Sugar Flower Crafting

Creating edible sugar flowers requires specific tools that facilitate the intricate designs and delicate formations essential for these edible masterpieces. At the heart of sugar flower crafting are basic yet vital tools, starting with rolling pins, which allow you to achieve varied thicknesses necessary for different petal types. A set of flower cutters is crucial, as they come in various shapes and sizes, providing versatility to recreate real-life flowers accurately.
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Arts and Culture

Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Cake Slice Street Art

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Photo By Gail

It is a popular thing these day that graffiti artists will sometimes use blank USPS Priority Mail Labels as a canvas for their art. Hey, they’re free, and they stick to most surfaces, so win-win!
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Custom Cartoon Cake Flats By Shoe Bakery

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Chris Campbell is the lead artist and “baker” behind Shoe Bakery, which creates custom footwear resembling an assortment of desserts. Campbell attributes the popularity of his designs — such as these custom Cartoon Cake flats (2023) — to the pleasant and memorable associations we have with sugary foods hardwired in our brains from childhood.
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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Still Life With Cake By Raphaelle Peale

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Still Life with Cake
Photo By Gail

Still Life With Cake (1818), a typical still life by Raphaelle Peale (1774 – 1825), the son of Charles Willson Peale, may have been the picture exhibited in 1819 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as Still Life—Wine, Cakes, Grapes, &c. A similar picture dating from the same year is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Peale’s tightly-grouped still lifes are often permeated with a delicate melancholy akin to that which characterized the life of the artist; he was an alcoholic who suffered the effects of arsenic and mercury poisoning caused by his work as a taxidermist in his father’s museum. His spare, essential style may have been influenced by the Spanish still lifes he studied in Mexico and by the works of Juan Sanchez Cotan, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1818.

Photographed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.