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Eat the Rubik’s Cube! Photo courtesy Stasty.com. For those who loved the Mondrian Cake, here’s a another piece of edible art, which celebrates the birthday of Erno Rubik. Rubik, born July 13, 1944, is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. But his immortality lies in the 1974 invention of the Rubik’s Cube,…
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A new way to enjoy carrot cake! Photo © WeHeartFood.com. In 10 years of writing THE NIBBLE, we’ve covered a lot of ice cream, especially during July—National Ice Cream Month. But here’s a first for us: carrot cake ice cream. It’s part of today’s tip: Envision a fantasy ice cream flavor and make it.…
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Mini watermelon cucumbers: fun food. Photo courtesy Melissas.com. Cucumbers and watermelons are first cousins. Both are from the binomial order Cucurbitales and family Cucurbitaceae, differing only at the genus level: Cucumis for cucumber (the common cucumber genus/species is C. sativus) and Citrullus for watermelon (C. lanatus). That’s why you can eat the white portion…
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Ice cream cones coated with fucshia edible glitter. Photo courtesy Chloe Jankowitz | Scoopsies. Celebrate July (National Ice Cream Month), birthdays and other special occasions by making glitter cones. For July 4th, you can make them in red, white and blue. These dazzlers were created by Chloe Jankowitz, owner of Scoopsies ice cream shop…
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A tasty flag! Photo courtesy SecretLifeOfAChefsWife.com. What a great dessert surprise for July 4th! This flag cake originated on 17andBaking.com, and was reposted on SecretLifeOfAChefsWife.com. Elissa, who posted the recipe at age 17 (she’s now 21), said at the time: “While I wish I could claim credit for it, the idea of a flag…
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