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Baking

Bento Hiatus & AllThingsforSale Winner

June 14, 2011 Baking

Bento laziness has struck me as summer begins and my interest in fancy cake making continues to reach ridiculous proportions. Find out who won the bento giveaway!

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Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

May 24, 2011 Baking

My little girl is growing up so fast! She turned 7 last week and to celebrate we threw her a big party with friends, a water slide, and a big castle cake.

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9th Anniversary FFXI Cake

April 12, 2011 Baking

See my entry in the 9th Anniversary Final Fantasy Fan Art Contest. Featuring Goobbue, Cait Sith, Moogle, Bomb, Mandragora, 3 leeches, and a gobbie.

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The Cake That Was On Fire

April 4, 2011 Baking

It’s time for the 2nd Annual Edible Book Contest and this year I decided to do a cake based on the Hunger Games. It’s my first time working with fondant!

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Vegetable Tempura Bento

March 7, 2011 Baking

Some leftover vegetable tempura makes a delicious bento lunch the next day, even though it’s not crispy anymore! Sides include corn and edamame, yum yum!

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2010 Halloween Wrap-Up

November 3, 2010 Baking

My Halloween 2010 wrap-up with jack-o-lantern spam musubis, a bucket of trouble over some yummy but frustrating gourmet caramel apples, and pumpkin carvings.

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Sweet Cheeks (LOST Cookies)

May 19, 2010 Baking

What do you serve your friends and family for dessert at a LOST Series Finale viewing party? Why, some Sweet Cheeks, of course! See how I made these Sawyer cookies!

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Easter Roundup

April 5, 2010 Baking

Another Easter has come and gone in the Pikko household. See the cool Easter eggs we colored, the cupcakes we ate, and my yearly batch of Jello eggs.

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An In-Flight Bento from Ajira Airways

February 16, 2010 Baking

If you were flying on Ajira Airways and ordered a bento, what would arrive on your tray table? See what I think they’d serve on board and see my Valentine’s Day food.

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Most people new to bento eventually read about a mysteriously named, popular food item called ‘onigiri’. It’s a bit of an odd word, don’t you think? How do you pronounce it? Japanese would say oh-neegeeree. I’ve heard others say oh-nee-gear-ee, but if you say it that way, I’m going to bet you also say sam-er-eye [...]

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The Trouble with Truffles

January 4, 2010 Baking

Over the course of the last year, I discovered that I am not only cursed in eggs, but in cooking in general. Things just seem to happen to me at the worst times and for the stupidest reasons. Some are so frustratingly minute by themselves that at times I’ve found myself on the verge of [...]

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Cupcake Pops and Frazzled Nerves

May 19, 2009 Baking

Bakerella’s cupcake pops have been something I have been wanting to do for a long time and when I finally do it for Baby Girl’s class, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

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Legalized Tomatoes

May 16, 2008 Baking

Mr. Pikko has done something to my wild tomato plant in the yard, but what is it and what does it mean?? And just what exactly is the Brownie of Doom and why is it called that?

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Witch Bento (141)

October 31, 2007 Baking

Baby Girl has a preschool party for Halloween, so I decided to make cupcakes, only I missed a note in her backpack. See the ugly witch that decided to land in my bento.