Dan and Mark talk Girl Scout Cookies with fellow NPR Bryant Park Project alum Tricia McKinney and her daughter Cassie, the supplier of The Sporkful's eight boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. /mark http://player.wizzard.tv/player/o/i/x/130249530223/config/k-606246fde1bd8def/uuid/root/episode/k-0bbd61639304cc2b.m4v Photo: Flickr CC / aka_kath
Snicker-doodle dough “shell,” Starburst “cheese,” green-colored coconut “lettuce,” chocolate cake “meat,” marshmallow “sour cream” and licorice “tomatoes." Is this more or less enticing than ACTUAL Taco Bell? /dan (via Foodbeast)
Nashville, TN, 3:00 pm. Our pumpkin phase continues, with a Sporkful fan Lauren baking a Pumpkin Spice Layered Cake with Maple Icing, from a fall feast: I had to send you guys this picture in honor of your pumpkin show. Made for a Halloween party, for which the menu also included butternut squash soup served in a roasted pumpkin, quesadillas with Halloween designs
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 4:00pm. Christina created this beautiful coconut layer cake to celebrate her sister-in-law Rebekah's birthday earlier this month. Both are Sporkful fans. Happy belated birthday, Rebekah! You don't have to wait for a special occasion to show us what you're eating. Share pics at thesporkful@gmail.com. Please include the location and time of the picture, and describe the food. /mg
The Happy Meal Project we talked about the other day got me thinking about another food seemingly impervious to time. Back when I worked at CNN (long before my journalistic universe expanded to include creating crazy videos about bacon-laced waffles or the Inversewich), this humble slice of chocolate crumb cake sat on a desk just outside Anderson Cooper's office for
A recent call-in episode where ice cream cake came up continues to spark debate. (I'll also point you to an earlier post on a musical exploration of the issue.) Mary writes to say that while store bought ice cream cakes sag, a homemade ice cream cake can sing: My husband made me the most delicious ice cream cake. It had butter pecan