This Riesling rhubarb crisp cake has it all: tender white cake, rhubarb-strawberry compote and matching buttercream, a crispy oat crumble, and a fanciful, ruffled finish. It's the perfect cake to bake when you're feeling like showing off your cake-baking skills or looking for a weekend project to tackle when you want to spend the day in the kitchen.
The star of Tanika & Brian's chic and modern NYC apartment? That just might be Tansy the dog and the cozy geometric cubby she calls home in their space. It's a handmade piece that you can slap together in a weekend and take home to your own fuzzy family.
This lovely little tray can do double duty of both helping you organize your space while jazzing it up. It's also totally customizable, so follow Cassie's instructions to make it your own!
Skill Level: Easy Time Required: 2 hours active time, 24 hours to cure Project Cost: $50
Russian baker Olga Noskovaa creates beautiful handmade cakes and other baked goods that are absolutely flawlessly decorated with a highly reflective icing that appears like glass in individual colors and like a shiny marble when colors are combined. In either case, the effect is absolutely awe-inspiring.
Bad news, guys. There’s a limit to humanity. Even if we had the technology for interstellar space travel, we still wouldn’t be able to see most of the observable universe because we’re actually limited to only being able to go to a hundredth billionth of a percent of it. We’re stuck within our local galaxy group. That’s sort of depressing! But why is there a limit anyway? Kurzgesagt explains how it has to do with dark energy, and the nature of nothing, and how only so many things in the universe are gravitationally bound to us.
It can be difficult to find bathroom shelving that's functional and attractive. If you want it to also be adaptable as your needs evolve, well, now you're asking for an even taller order. I spotted this lovely and flexible wall of decorative shelving—and you can make it yourself.
by Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo
We know that mixing sodium with water causes awesome explosions
. We know that skipping rocks across a lake is very probably one of the funnest things you can do outdoors. Next time, we’re all bringing a pound of sodium to the lake so we can watch it explode over and over again as it skips its way across the lake. It’s the simple things in life, you know.
Typically made (and served) in a large cast iron skillet, the Dutch baby pancake is an impressive centerpiece on your brunch table. But if you want to make a bunch of these light, souffle-like treats at once, turn to your muffin tin for the cutest mini versions.
Looking for a fun weekend project that promises to improve every last part of the forthcoming Summer? Do what Instructables’ Mike Warren did and combine a gas-powered chainsaw with a blender for making the smoothest margaritas without the need for a power cord.
Imagine being 25 years old and having your car hit by a truck. Your car with the Bernie Sanders sticker on the back of it.
Imagine being 25 years old and suffering from chronic disease and having the tow truck driver inform you that no, he's not going to tow your car. He's going to let you sit on the side of the road because he's a Christian, and he's "drawn a line in the sand."
“He said, ‘I can’t tow you ... you’re a Bernie supporter,’” McWade recalled. “I was like, ‘Wait, are you serious? You’re kidding me.’”
Ken Shupe, a 51-year-old from Travelers Rest, South Carolina, was very serious. “I’m a conservative Christian, I’ve just drawn a line in the sand,” he said. “I’m not going to associate or conduct business with them.” (The incident was first reported by FOX Carolina 21.)
McWade was heading home to Travelers Rest on I-26 when a tractor trailer hit the front of her car, she said. Afterward, her car wouldn’t start, and a first responder moved it to the side of the interstate. The driver’s door was approximately two feet from the highway line, she recalled.
McWade said she collects disability payments and has psoriatic arthritis, impaired mobility, early stage Crohn’s disease, severe fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. (She sent HuffPost a picture of the disability tag, as well as a photo of her many medications.)
Cardboard has long served as an inexpensive plaything for cats. It’s a cheap material you can use to build a climbing structure, or a cozy place for them to hide. Far from a weekend craft project, these cardboard landmarks won’t be an eyesore sitting in the corner of your living room.
We've noticed a new trend in kitchen goods popping up lately: metallic rainbow. It's slightly reminiscent of a hologram or the rainbow you see on an oil spot in the parking lot. As strange as it may seem, we're kind of into it.
The latest project from our friends at Young House Love has us sharpening our colored pencils. Check out their adult coloring book, Color at Home, due out this fall.
The cake recipe makes a standard 9-inch double layer cake, but I used three 6-inch pans and had enough batter left over for 6 cupcakes. The cake is almost completely black on its own, thanks to dark cocoa powder, but I added an additional teaspoon of Americolor Super Black gel food color to make it even darker.
To get started, you’ll need to cover the cake with black ready-made fondant according to these directions. Don’t worry if your fondant work doesn’t turn out perfectly because the paint will disguise many flaws. You’ll need pink, blue and violet gel food color and most importantly white food color. (read more)
by Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Mario Aguilar to Gizmodo
I laughed. Pretty hard, actually. Right when the fluffy cloud that is cotton candy started oozing sweet sugary alien blood, I laughed hard. It’s so ridiculous and it disappears so quickly and breaks down in such a balletic way that I can’t even think about turning my head away. In fact, I don’t want to even blink. My eyes have never seen anything more glorious than cotton candy melting away.
by Andy Cush on Gawker, shared by Cheryl Eddy to Gizmodo
Devoted NPR listeners on the West Coast may have noticed a sudden minute-long drop-off of audio during this morning’s broadcast of Morning Edition. The reason: Today is Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and some rascal was messing around with the control board.
Pabst Blue Ribbon tells the story of John “Chickie” Donohue, a former merchant seaman from the Inwood neighborhood of New York City who traveled more than halfway around the world to keep a promise that he would buy his friends a beer the next time his work took him to Vietnam. Little did his friends realize that he would sneak into an actual combat zone in order to do so. 47 years later, the men reunited to recount the amazing tale.
At a time when the Vietnam War was at its height, one man, John “Chickie” Donohue, snuck back into the war zone to find his 3 closest friends and buy them a beer. Crazy or caring, Chickie gave his friends more than beer, he gave them hope. Hope that helped each one safely return home when the war was over. Now, 47 years later, the group is reunited to relive the greatest beer run ever.
You've probably eaten tahini in savory applications before (it's a key ingredient in hummus), but what about sweet? The sesame seed paste is equally wonderful in halva, a soft candy made from tahini and sugar. And when you put halva in homemade coffee ice cream with bittersweet chocolate, magical things happen.
Lego Ideas lets amateur builders not only share their creations with the world, but also have the opportunity for them to be realized as real sets. But each submission needs 10,000 supporting votes before it’s even considered, so let’s make sure this stunning Lego Voltron gets closer to reality.
