Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

Parking in the sun can be a real pain when you get back to your car - steering wheel too hot to touch, seats that burn and sauna-like conditions while you wait for the aircon to do its job. If you have to park in the sun for a few hours, why not bake some cookies on your dashboard?

No need for air freshener as your car will smell like fresh baked cookies… find the recipe and instructions at Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies, step by step | Baking Bites

Best burger recipes

Chef Jeffrey Starr ran a competition where people send in their best burger recipes… here are some of the best recipes for better, tastier & juicier burgers

Your Recipe Book

Your Recipe Book is a great example of those on-demand photo books that allows your friends and families to submit recipes and messages via email to yourrecipebook website. You set up a template and the recipes and messages are automatically set up ready to print.

Once you get enough recipes and pay £99.00 you’ll receive a lusciously bound hardcover, full colour, shiny cookbook with a bunch of personal stuff in it, custom made for you. A great gift idea and sure to hit Australia soon.

Your Recipe Book the ideal personalised gift for a wedding birthday or anniversary

Edible picture to lay on your cake

This is fantastic… Sugarcraft will print your pictures on a frosting paper with edible inks so you can put them on cookies or cakes etc.

You can even add your own text in your own font. The site is a mess but you can see the possibilities and, what’s more, if you want to get into the edible picture business they can supply you with all the gear to set up your own business.

Prawn peeling machine

This is so cool… a neat video showing you how a prawn peeling and deveining machine makes light work out of something so time consuming and messy. I’d love to see the prototypes for this cool machine and see the napkins on which the design would have been sketched out on. See the video here: Jonsson Shrimp Peeling Systems - How Jonsson Peeling Works

Sandwich Art

Really cool sandwiches that your kids will love but are too cool to eat:

See more at: Sandwich Art
thanks neatorama

Great history of chocolate

The national association of manufacturers have great videos on how stuff is made. Their video on chocolate making is fascinating… from beans to bars… lots of history as well: In Aztec days. how many coco beans was a rabbit worth? 10… there’s one for your trivial pursuit nights.
This whole website is worth visiting and browsing for its many interesting videos.
via make blog

Cooking for engineers

When designing a cookbook or a recipe for the cooking school we want the ingredients and method to be as easy to understand as possible… and that takes time and page space. I should have known that an engineer could turn ingredients and instructions into something incredibly elegant… in fact the guy behind Cooking For Engineers has a patent pending on his innovative way of formatting recipes.

While the recipes on his site aren’t exactly 5 star, there’s some neat stuff in there. Check out his recipes at: Cooking For Engineers

Great Vietnamese food blog

Murray has just sent me to a great site/blog by an Aussie living in Vietname blogging about all his bizarre Vietnamese food experiences. A great source of knowledge if you’re thinking about travelling to Vietnam and want to eat like a local.
Stickyrice

Weird food

If you’re looking for monkey picked tea (yup, that’s tea picked by monkeys), chocolate ants, a whole range of fried insect treats then you need to visit EDIBLE. These guys have some of the most bizarre foods on the planet. Vodka lollies with edible scorpions and coffee that has been passed by weasels(and I don’t mean a weasel has walked by the coffee plant). You just have to love the internet… the long-tail of marketing means that these guys can make a living doing things with ingredients that we would never dream of.