This Chocolate Double Double Animal (Cracker) Style Burger by Chef Kerry Simon features a chocolate mousse patty resting on a macaroon bun and is stacked with strawberries for tomatoes, mint for lettuce, crème fraiche for cheese, a brioche bun and a side of puff pastry fries.
The creation is available through the end of May at JW Marriott’s LA Market.
Deep fried Mini Calzone balls with fluffy, yet crispy donut-like breading. Check out Instructables for the recipe.
Apparently we’ve been doing baguettes wrong. I was just eating them, but Tim Bierbaum and John Milhiser have taken a whole other approach: they’re replacing everyday objects with the loaves of bread and photographing celebrities using them. Baguette-me-nots features baguettes in all kinds of weird places including as stand-ins for Wolverine’s claws. Sourdough is just as strong as adamantium.
See more baguettes where they normally aren’t after the break.
This gorgeous cake is based on the game Machinarium and was created by Sweet Disposition Cakes in Australia.
(via Cake Wrecks)
Week 2 of the Pringles / Lucasfilm “Force For Fun” promotion is underway! Over a thousand fan-made videos featuring Pringles and Star Wars were collected and narrowed down to seven finalists.
This week’s video is entitled “Wookiee Mistake” by Jordan Allen, Luke Rocheleau and Brooke Dooley, team “Side of Fries”.
Check it out after the break and, while you’re at it, you can enter to win a talking Ewok plush with a side of Pringles chips!
Companies can be sticklers about protecting their brands, but generally a site that promotes the heck out of their brand for free is okay—unless you’re the lawyers at Ferrero. They recently sent a cease and desist letter to theWorld Nutella Day site so it will be closing down for good. Site owner Sara Rosso posted the following sad message about the closure.
On May 25, 2013, I’ll be darkening the World Nutella Day site, nutelladay.com, and all social media presence (Facebook, Twitter), in compliance with a cease-and-desist I received from lawyers representing Ferrero, SpA (makers of Nutella)…
Seven years after the first World Nutella Day in 2007, I never thought the idea of dedicating a day to come together for the love of a certain hazelnut spread would be embraced by so many people! I’ve seen the event grow from a few hundred food bloggers posting recipes to thousands of people Tweeting about it, pinning recipes on Pinterest, and posting their own contributions on Facebook! There have been songs sung about it, short films created for it, poems written for it, recipes tested for it, and photos taken for it.
The cease-and-desist letter was a bit of a surprise and a disappointment, as over the years I’ve had contact and positive experiences with several employees of Ferrero, SpA., and with their public relations and brand strategy consultants, and I’ve always tried to collaborate and work together in the spirit and goodwill of a fan-run celebration of a spread I (to this day) still eat.
I have hope that this is not a goodbye to World Nutella Day forever, for the fans’ sake, and hopefully it will live on in one form or another in the future.
On that note, Rosso told HuffPo that she would like for Ferraro to take over World Nutella Day and that she would have been “open to any kind of discussion” and that “[it] didn’t have to be a legal document”.
It’s a sad, sad day for Nutella fans. Go break out a fresh jar and drown your sorrows with a few spoonfuls of chocolate-hazelnut goodness—or don’t in protest of Ferraro’s treatment of this fan and their ignorance with regard to the power of the internet.
(Neatorama via The Mary Sue)
New York City pastry chef Dominique Ansel created this “Cronut” which is now available in several flavors at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. It is described thusly:
“Picture a croissant dough that is fried and then flavored in three ways: filled, dusted with sugar, and glazed.”
If you’re wondering about taste, they’re described as “holy sh*t good”.
Rotting ears aren’t normally the kind of decorations I go for on cakes, but when the cake features Daryl Dixon they’re a must. This The Walking Dead design by the awesome Litte Cherry/Black Cherry Cake Company is grotesque and yet fabulous. It might even tempt zombies away from brains.
Check out new cakes featuring Assassin’s Creed, Gears of War, Star Wars themes and more by Black Cherry after the break.
