Here’s a great idea for cake or cupcake decorating, using tootsie rolls! They come in all kinds of wonderful colors now… My friend Grieg made these (apparently he’s not just a great photographer, but a great cook as well), and was generous enough to show us how!  You can see some of his other creations at Foodwhirl, too!   (Like the Cheesecake Cookie Cupcakes, and Chocolate Hearts)

How to Make Tootsie-Roses

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Yesterday I posted a reader version of the Perry the Platypus costume..

Then today I ran across this on my instructable on making the dragon cake:

Here’s mommy_in_a_meditative_midlife_crisis’s version of the Dragon Cake, which she made for her son’s 6th birthday last year!  “I just got finished making the cake for my son’s 6th birthday party today. Thanks so much for your easy to follow directions! It made the whole process quite enjoyable! Since I couldn’t get. A hold of Easter candy in September I just made fondant covered cake balls for the eggs and used fondant for the spikes.”

On the Foodwhirl.com blog today I have a post up highlighting some interesting and fun cakes I found on flickr..  Go check it out!

A plethora of Geeky Cakes!

My own robot cake from a few years back, and a roundup of other robot cake ideas!

Last year’s Dragon Cake!

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For your inspiration and enjoyment, here’s some lovely valentine treat ideas, collected from around Flickr!  Links are below the big picture–click through for more info on the creators and/or links to how to’s.

1. valentine westie cookie – red, 2. Engagement Cupcakes, 3. pink hot chocolate, 4. Valentine Fortune Cookies, 5. Hearts and Flowers for V-Day, 6. valentines day cupcakes, 7. Valentine Cake Balls, 8. Valentine Cake, 9. Valentine’s Day Cake

Wanna share yours?  Add them to the Dabbled Flickr group!

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Happy Christmas Eve!
I’ve been in baking mode for the last few days, so I thought I’d share one of the things I made…
My first attempt ever at making my grandmother’s recipe for Sour Cream Poundcake. I have always loved this stuff, and it’s my own little holiday tradition that I eat this for breakfast on Christmas morning! It needs no icing or other adornment, it’s positively fabulous as is, and if you’re lucky, you get the incredibly tasty crunchy crumbly bits on the top!

(excuse the photo – taken by my phone!)

Want to make it yourself?  Here’s the recipe!

Nanny’s Sour Cream…

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone (in the US, at least… the rest of you, just have a happy day!)…
I figured it was time for another Flickr Roundup!  Here are some fun and creative cakes, cookies, and other sweets with a thanksgiving theme… who needs pumpkin pie!

Click through the links below to see the original photos — several have tutorials, too!

1. Turkey Cake Pops, 2. Thanksgiving_Turkey_Cake_Stuffing, 3. Thanksgiving Turkey cookie with pop up timer…. POP! Let’s EAT!, 4. Thanksgiving Cake, 5. Mmmm Oreo Turkey Cookies, 6. Turkey Dinner cupcake, 7. turkey cookies, 8. Thanksgiving Cake, 9. Pilgrim Pumpkin Cake

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A roundup of cakes, cookies, and assorted sweets with a halloween theme…  Check out the new flickr Gallery below, plus a reminder of some of the past goodies posted here.

Some Halloween Sweets posted previously on Dabbled

• Chocolate Pretzel Creep Fingers
• Creepy Cakes from “They’re Coming to Get You Barbara”
• Eyeballs!
• Sweet Sushi

Halloween Sweets Gallery on Flickr

I culled these 18 photos from the massive amount of cool ideas on flickr… Click through and check them all out!

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Time yet again for another flickr Roundup.. I was thinking that it’s always fun to see interesting cake ideas for the geek in your life..and there are so many different kinds of geeks, too!  Computer/iPhone geeks, gaming geeks, star wars/star trek geeks, so there is much to choose from!  (Hey, we are all a LITTLE bit geeky I bet!)

So without further ado, here are some of the interesting geek/nerd cakes & cupcakes that I’ve found in my flickr travels. Hope you enjoy! Links to the original items can be found below the big pic.

Tomorrow we will be spotlighting more geeky…

The Dragon Cake I made for my 4 year old’s birthday was so popular, that I decided I’d better do a tutorial. Note, I am not a professional baker, and i’m sure there are things I’ve gotten ‘wrong’.. but that’s one reason i did this tutorial to show that you don’t have to be a professional to attempt something cool!

PS: You guys better appreciate this! I actually didn’t do the best job of documenting my process while making the Dragon Cake, so I took some of the leftovers and made a mini version just so I could get some good…

(Thanks Neatorama, Craftzine, and others for the link love! .. The Thank You notes and Invites are now available for download here. 6/11: Full blown Tutorial is on making the cake is Posted!! -Dot)

Here it is! Pretty darn close to my vision (he does look like the Party Invite, right?), and wow! LOVE it. The “How To” will be coming next week (edit: it’s here!), when I have time to do a good writeup… Right now I’m just covered in cake batter and icing!

I ‘live blogged’ my baking day today at Twitter, so if you’re interested in some of the interim stuff, and can’t…