Are you cooking some of these things as a visual joke as well? Could be great fun! As the the "body parts" dish names, maybe think steak and kidney pie, chitterlings, tongue sandwiches, head cheese, liver-n-onions. Not Punny, but...

Frank’s Famous in Glendale/Montrose has great homemade muffins. Not cakey, they’ve got more body and weight and great flavor. Downside is that they only have a few flavors every day. Peanut Butter n Jelly muffin is...

frosted with a white mountain type frosting. It was delicious.

compellingly folded urban landscapes, but it’s in the food painting that there’s curious material transference happening. Paint is handled in a lavish, full bodied, nearly sculptural way that the impasto seems almost...

I just made this today and have been making it for years, the only vanilla frosting I ever make. It’s a little unusual, but very, very good. I never make frosting with powdered sugar because I can taste the cornstarch in it...

to portray swimmers—if I use them, I will stick them in the cake sideways like they’re swimming -skinny red licorice ropes for lanes Also: possibly find mini flags to hang on the sides of the cake? Will the...

Butter is what is used to give body and structure to your buttercream, so reducing the butter content by half caused your problem. You have too much liquid (egg whites, flavoring, etc) to form a good emulsion (butter cream is...

. This was my husband’s favorite. Last but not least, a very simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. My guess is this is to appeal to kids with less sophisticated tastes. We didn’t taste it last...

Food Fuser, loofah for the body isn’t hard to create? Is there a special drying procedure? This is interesting!

a whip cycle, then take the resulting mixture and whisk for about 5 minutes. It will give the frosting more body and enough stiffness to cover a cake, torte, etc.

They use hydrogenated coconut oil to thicken the frosting in there cupcakes. You’re better off sticking to lard...

Can I bend cookies while they’re hot? Instinct says yes, since it’s done with tuile and fortune cookies. Here’s my overly-ambitious, insanity-induced idea: I want some of my gingerbread men to be able to sit on...

milk, You don’t need it if you are baking a chiffon, but in other applications it has fat, bodies, and sugars that the rice milk won’t have. Yes, it will lend a coconut flavor which some may not find desirable, but it...

Yucky? Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale? C’mon, they’re frosted in somethng called ‘whip’, what could be bad about that?

include a recipe for frosting. (Melt two hershey’s bars and two tablespoons of butter in the microwave until just melted, stir until mixed, spread on top of cake.) Maybe a rye bread made with molasses or honey? Or oatmeal...