Food

Back in February, I posted about Brett Bara's amazing colorful Jell-O mold that she made for a special party. Her blog post gave a step-by-step how-to for the multi-layer mold, but she's gone a step further now with this new fun video. Seeing the bright Jell-O mold come together is quite the sight, and she also offers up lots of handy tips. I can't wait to try this!

Inspired by Bakerella's new book and her famous cake pops, Brooke of The Family Kitchen created these yummy-looking homemade Pop Tarts on a stick. You really can't go wrong with pie crust, cherries and icing, especially if you put them all on a stick! Brooke's tribute recipe post includes a Q & A with Bakerella as well. [via GoodLifeEats]

Instructables user Milt_Reynolds claims to have the best method for de-seeding watermelon, do you agree?

Bento boxes are a great way to combine your love of crafting with the chore of making lunches for school. Fun artistic details marry delicious and healthy food and then play house in cute little containers! Just Bento has been posting up great simple recipes for back to school. Check out these ten tips for creating bento-style lunches that even the pickiest eater would want to devour! They range from the most simple, like cute sticker faces, to ideas on how to stock your pantry and keep costs down. OM NOM NOM!

These ice cream pops by Sarah James look like a great summer party snack. She uses homemade magic shell to make a protective anti-drip coating.

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When I was a little girl, I worshiped Yoda. According to my parents, I preferred to marry Luke Skywalker, but I used to talk in a Yoda voice all the time. As you can imagine, loving this Yoda head cake I am! It's a slideshow on Instructables rather than a full tutorial, but there are some cool photos of the frosted cake before the fondant was added. It's incredibly realistic, and, well ... takes the cake! Creator tchitwood admits "everyone said it was sad to cut into him, but we went to the dark side that night. :)"

By Katie Goodman

I prefer to cook bacon in the oven vs. on the stove top in a skillet or frying pan. Cooking stove-top always ends up covering my stove in grease spatters (and sometimes the spatters hit my hands - that doesn't exactly feel good!). I also think it's tedious and slow. It makes so much less mess to cook bacon in the oven than on the stove top. Depending on the size baking pan you use you can usually cook the whole package at once instead of just a few pieces at a time. Also, instead of cooking your bacon in a pan full of grease, the grease drips away from the bacon as you cook when you use the method that I'm going to explain after the jump.

If you like the idea of a creamy mint pie but would rather eat a cupake, here's a compromise. These chocolate ganache filled cupcakes are topped with an easy mint flavored mousse which you make in a matter of minutes. Anna at Cookie Madness shares her recipe for these yummy-looking grasshopper pie cupcakes.

Here's an easy hiking idea, take along some powdered drink mix and use (clean) snow at the summit to make a summit snow cone!

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