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Making great looking letters and numbers with candy has been a problem in the past, but not so any more. Here is a product called Letter Ice (and the numbers are called, appropriately, Number Ice). They are silicone letter and number molds. They are great for ice, jello, butter, chocolate, shortbread cookies, muffins, [...]

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Baking, Raves & Reviews, Sugar I'm a big fan of recipes that combine at least four or more ingredients that they are decadent enough to begin with, but combined, create this magical, sugar coma-inducing masterpiece, much like the one you see above. They're the kind of treats that are so sugary, so ...

The only thing more satisfying than cooking something new, is possibly eating it. No matter how experienced you are, there is always something you haven't tried cooking yet. My last culinary challenge was making bitter orange marmalade. It turned out to be easier than I thought, not to mention delicious. In lieu of crack cocaine, the Bunrabs made ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, Slashfood TalksA former Slashfoodie herself, Nicole is the extraordinary baker behind Baking Bites -- a recipe blog for anyone with flour on their sleeves and a taste for the divine. She stepped away from the kitchen (actually, the horse stable) to chat with us a bit about life ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Midwest Rural, Midwest Cities, Recipes, Candy, How To, Condiments, America, Comfort Food, Super Bowl XLII In case you haven't figured it out by now, I am a football fan. However, I have to admit that at least one third of my interest in football is not about the game. Sure, I can follow the game, thanks to four ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Recipes, Fruit, Candy, Baking, How To, Eggs, America, Sugar, Christmas At this point in the grand game we call ''The Race to Finish Holiday Baking,'' we're looking at cookies and confections that are easy, fast, but still have that ''ooooh''-inducing factor. Perhaps the easiest thing I've ever come across in ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, ChristmasI've been wrapped up in finishing my masters thesis this last week (thankfully it's finally all done) so I haven't done much in the way of holiday baking. So today, instead of offering you a recipe that I've tried and can vouch for, I'm pointing you in the direction of a recipe for ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Recipes, Sugar, Halloween It's been a long day here at Slashfood, though with such a sugar high off all the candy we threw at you, it probably seemed to go by fairly quickly! To round out our day of candy in honor of Halloween, let's have a dessert made in the spirit of one of many people's favorite candy, the ...

Filed under: Candy, Eggs, Sugar, Halloween What exactly is a meringue? Would you consider it a cookie because technically you ''bake'' it? Or is it candy because it's mostly all sugar? Whichever you call it, I'm including a photo of tiny little meringue ghosts from 101 Cookbooks because they're too cute to pass up on Halloween. Not only are ...