Trust me.. you want to try this. Homemade Guinness Icecream topped with Bailey’s and Irish Whiskey. Trust me on the Guinness ice-cream too, if you’re going “eww, beer!??”.
Perfect for St. Patty’s! As promised yesterday, I wrote up the whole thing. Read the whole story on the making of, over at Foodwhirl.

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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.”

Happy Saturday! I snuck in a little hint yesterday, but I guess I should officially announce that we’re launching the new team food blog, Foodwhirl.com, in 2 weeks! We’ve got a great team collected to bring you a bunch of neat perspectives on food, and the answers to that ultimate question of “What’s for Dinner?”! We have a temporary welcome page there now, where you can sign up for our RSS feed, and find links to our Facebook, Twitter and Flickr Group, too.

Foodwhirl’s already active on Twitter and Facebook, collecting some yummy food related links for you

@Foodwhirl on Twitter:

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I mentioned in November that I was thinking about a new food-related group blog. With the holidays, that fell to the back burner, but now that we have a fresh new year, we’re starting up work on this new project. So, I figured I’d give you guys a heads up on what’s coming!

This new blog will try to answer the eternal question of ‘What’s for Dinner?’, with recipes, how-to’s, menus, techniques, and so forth. We’ll cover things like date-night meals, kid-friendly dinners, party fare, and budget friendly eating. It will be a group blog, with bloggers from different areas and…

Happy New Years Eve everyone!  Hope everyone had a lovely 2009 and I can’t wait to see what 2010 will bring…

And don’t forget to soak your black eyed peas tonight, so you can make them for luck in the new year!*

I love Black Eyed Peas… they are healthy, tasty, and generally kid friendly… Growing up my mom made Hoppin’ John for New Years Day — Black Eyed Peas over rice, topped with onion. So I figured I’d share this VERY easy recipe with you for New Years Day. Plan ahead, because it takes an hour to cook. This recipe can…

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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For Halloween this year, I tried a new idea, that I had gotten from the most excellent blog, Filth Wizardry. She did this as a fun project with the kids, and I thought it looked like a lovely and disgusting item for the Halloween buffet, especially for the kiddos. Now those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember this for the Dot Cooks “Live Tweet”, where I documented all my Halloween food prep (if not, you can see the summary here!).

So why am I showing you this now, since Halloween is a whole year away?  Well, I think…

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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Happy weekend… this is from last year, but it was so good, I thought it deserved a repeat!

My dear creative friend, Chad, made this for the Halloween party last year…  and was kind enough to give us a tutorial, so we can all make our own!

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Dot’s having a lovely lazy weekend, so while she’s not around, here’s something yummy you might have missed!

Cuban sandwiches are a perfect food for late summer picnics! Here is the step by step on how to make these yummy sandwiches, including how to press them if you don’t happen to have a sandwich press. Click here to read the entire recipe…

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