Visit Country Living for a slideshow of tips and tricks for cake decorating, including step-by-steps for piping, basket weaving, making chocolate curls. Find the slideshow HERE.

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Find a roundup of cocktail recipes to match each of the ten Best Picture Oscar nominees HERE at Chow. (like a “Gold in Harlem” for Precious or a “Flying Blue Dragon” for Avatar.)

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Here’s a way to make peanut butter sandwiches brighten up a lunch box: make them sushi style. Find the how-tos for rolling peanut butter and fruit sandwiches sushi style HERE at the kitchn.

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The mind behind Adventures in Bentomaking never ceases to amaze me. I could spend the whole day posting post after post on bentos from the site. Here is a Charlie Brown bento.

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In honor of the final season of the completely addictive and mind-boggling show, Adventures in Bento Making provides the recipe and step-by-step how-tos (with great photos!) to making a LOST theme … Read More...

Check out the how-tos for making these cute and easy beehive cupcakes HERE at Bright Ideas.

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Visit Cupcakes Take the Cake before January 31st with your cake wreck for a chance to win a copy of Jen Yates’s NY Times Bestseller, Cake Wrecks. Find details on the contest HERE. And learn more about Cake … Read More...

Find the recipe and how-tos for making these gorgeous chrysanthemum cupcakes  (made of chocolate cake, filled with lemon curd and topped with buttercream) HERE at 17 and Baking.

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Turn mints into chocolatey gifts quickly with these how-tos from Gimme Some Oven. I had to include this picture below, too, of the process, because the image is just so fabulous. Pure abstract art.

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Perhaps this idea would’ve been best around Halloween, but just in case you have a need for some monster-esque celebrating, learn how to make totally edible googly eyes (from pill capsules, sprinkles and Whoppers) HERE at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories… Read More...

More for football season…find the recipe for making these chocolate peanut butter footballs HERE at Food Mayhem.

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Find recipes and inspiration to host your own movie night HERE at, of all places, the Pottery Barn web site. They even have printable invites, party tips, popcorn recipes and play lists. I love the popcorn, martini and ice cream … Read More...

I love this collection of heart-filled breakfast ideas for Valentine’s Day from No Fuss Fabulous. Easy, clever and yummy. Find the ideas HERE.

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Check out these Make-Ahead Recipes books we found on Amazon.… Read More...

Despite our warming weather, my kid is still obsessed with snowmen, which means I must necessarily be obsessed with snowmen.  Find the how-tos for making these white chocolate covered cherry snowmen HERE at Blisstree. {found via Grin and Bake … Read More...

It’s amazing how much cuteness a cookie cutter adds. Find the recipe for these porcupine s’mores (with homemade graham crackers and marshmallows) HERE   (link updated to web archives as blog no longer active) at amateur foodie.

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My 2-year old adores Frosty the Snowman (so do I, along with the classic 1960s Rudolph) so she exclaimed “Frosty!” rather jubilantly when she saw these cake pops  on my computer screen. Find … Read More...

Martha has a nice collection of birthday cupcake ideas HERE, such as these and letter and flower cupcakes.

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I think Saveur is now my go-to site for cocktail collections. See their New Year’s roundup HERE including this champagne and grapes from Noble Pig and this green tree.

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Total self-promotion, but if you’re looking for easy decorated Christmas cookies (and this is the place to look for such a thing, after all), check out the collection I created for Reader’s Digest, including Rudolph, candy canes, stockings, trees and … Read More...