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Bake It Pretty is my new favorite baking supply site. It has the most adorable chocolate candy melt molds you can find.

I particularly love the vintage button mold. That combined with the ever delicious Clasen candy melts she sells is a most decadent delight!

Image via Bake It Pretty blog. Hopefully it's okay to use :)

To help supply your initial cupcake goodness, Fantabulously Frugal is having a 31 day giveaway special. Day 7 is a starter cupcake set from Bake It Pretty!

Today’s giveaway (Day 8) is also great for us green bakers – reusable snack and sandwich bag from Etsy shop Green Street Bags – awesome! Check it out! Even if you don’t win, they’re still great!

Bookmark their site for more giveaways this month!

31 Days of Giveaways

Make that 117 Nagging Food Questions and counting! Over at Chow, a food media site, every week the answer of a new nagging food question is posted. As of January 15, 117 answers are at your disposal!

Some of my favorites?

• How Long Can You Keep Dry Spices? [Short answer: 1-3 years, depending on whole or ground, unless you bust out the fancy storing techniques]
• Why Do Onions Make You Cry? [Short answer: It's all about the chemical reactions]
• How Long Can Dried Pasta Be Stored? [Short answer: Years and years!]
• What Makes Cheddar Cheese Sharp? [Short answer: Bacteria from aging - gross, but so delicious!]
• Is Soy Lecithin Bad for You? [Short answer: Like anything, it's ok - in moderation. It's a natural derivative of the soybean]

via Wordhole

A lot of food groups on Flickr are pure fluff – just pretty photos of food with no utility beyond the visual. Once in a great while I enjoy looking at food, but more often than not, I’m going to want to reproduce it!

I stumbled upon a a few groups whose premise is that each photo must be accompanied by a recipe or a link to a recipe. It combines my love of looking at delicious food with real life reviews and reproduction ability! Recipes to Share, Cooking (recipe required), The (un)official Flickr cookbook, and Food with Blogged Recipes are all recipe based Flickr groups.

One delight that I found through The (un)official Flickr cookbook is this excellent idea of a Lemon-Ginger cookie:

You can find the recipe at the user’s blog, Coconut & Lime.

View my “food” tagged Flickr items to see more yums that yours truly has made or just plain eaten.

“When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.” I had spent forever looking for this site after hearing about it at a conference. Everyone was referring to it as cake wreckers, so I tried cakewreckers.blogspot.com and other such things, always unsuccessful.

The real site is cakewrecks.blogspot.com, and it is a wonderful time waster for a snow day afternoon.

My current favorite is Fail Blog worthy the ultimate cake fail: