Edible Geek
How Many Games Do You Recognize on These Cupcakes?
Check out this awesome cupcakes game spotted at a party recently. The hosts made 100 cupcakes, each decorated with a different image from a game — video, board games, or otherwise. I've already spotted some of my favorite video games among the cupcakes — how many can you see?
10 Sweet Super Mario Bros. Treats
Edible geek treats are one of my sweet tooth weaknesses — just when you thought you couldn't love your favorite video games or favorite gadgets more, you get to enjoy them in cake form and smothered in frosting.
Speaking of favorites, it's time to turn the attention on some delectable Super Mario Bros. sweets that are so irresistible, I had to put them all together for you to drool over too!
Dream Cooking Scenario: A Computer in the Kitchen
My skills in the kitchen tend to fluctuate from the very elementary to the occasionally sophisticated (case in point: a beautiful soufflé that shall never be reproduced). What makes the biggest difference for me is having instructions, and not everything I want to make is in the Joy of Cooking.
I get most of my recipe ideas from food blogs like YumSugar, and my best solution for using a recipe I found online was printing it out and getting it covered with ingredients in my messy kitchen, or keeping my laptop somewhere safe and traveling to it for the next step.
Spice Things Up With Rubik's Cube Salt and Pepper Shakers
I thought I had seen the pièce de réstistance in Rubik's Cube products when I found that vintage Rubik's Cube Perpetual Calendar the other day, but now I don't know, because check this out: the Rubik's Cruet Salt and Pepper Shaker Set!
$20 for each shaker, the salt has a solid white block top, while the pepper has a red block top.
Unlike the calendar, you don't have to solve the cube to figure out how to get your seasonings out.
Locavore App Tells You What's in Season Where You Are
To be a locavore is to eat foods that are both in season and produced where you are. For those who are attempting this lifestyle, it can be a challenge to find a lot of these foods.
That's why the Locavore app ($3) is awesome — it uses the GPS in your iPhone to locate you, and then it tells you what foods are in season locally.
Hungry Scientist Handbook Is the Cookbook For Geeks
If you want to get your geeky kitchen skills up there on par with the Kindle Cake baker, you might check out the Hungry Scientist Handbook ($17).
Filled with instructions on how to make stuff like dry-ice martinis and electric cakes, the guidebook will help bridge your love of tech with your love of cooking.
Bottoms up!
Special Delivery: An Early Look at the Nintendo DSi
As you know, I've been anxiously waiting for the arrival of the Nintendo DSi (which comes out this Sunday), but lo and behold, I got a special delivery in the office yesterday: a Nintendo DSi cake and the DSi itself! After taking in the craftsmanship of the cake, I dove into the DSi to take a few first impressions.
Right off the top?
Happy Pi Day!
It's March 14, and any good geek knows what that means: It's Pi Day!
Yep, 3/14 corresponds to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (3.1415926535. .
Space Invaders Ice Cube Trays: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic?
The retro Space Invaders have officially invaded everything — French Connection, your kitchen, and now they're in your drink, not just invading, but keeping it cool. How sweet of them!
The Space Invaders Ice Cube Trays ($8) look just like the pixelated aliens of video games past, and are ready to be cracked into a cool beverage at your next party.
The Star Wars Cookbook: Bake Wookie Cookies!
Have you ever wanted to combine your two passions: Cooking and Star Wars?!
Well, don't worry, you can, with the Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie Cookies ($15)! Each recipe in the cookbook is themed to the series in some way, like Crazy Cantina Chili, Boba Fett-Uccine, or C-3PO Pancakes, which sound amazing enough, but how insane will everyone go at your next party when you whip out a tray of Wookie Cookies?
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