The Best Way to Drink Chocolate Beer is From a Chocolate Glass

My life changed when I sipped a shot of Bailey’s mixed with chocolate liquor. I guess you could say that my life changed at that point, because I never liked the taste of alcohol nor appreciated it all – until that very moment.

Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen is no stranger to chocolate booze.

chocolate beer glassIn fact, they brew a damned good chocolate stout that’s about to get even better. Sankt Gallen’s newest offering is a special set which includes a 330mL bottle of their chocolate stout, along with a completely edible glass that’s made entirely out of chocolate.

Rocket News 24 is quick to explain that the chocolate glass might be able to counteract the bitterness of the the “ultra-dark beer”, which is apparently brewed “with over twice the ingredients of your average dark beer including roasted ‘chocolate malt.’”

Chocolate stout with a side of chocolate? Sounds good to me.

[via Foodbeast]

Paint Your Pizza: Looks Good, Hopefully Tastes Even Better

Does your pizza have a face? No? Well, it could, if you wanted to give it one. Introducing paintyourpizza.com, where you can show off your mad paint skills and have it turned into an actual pizza pie.

Conceived by Jonas Lund, the Paint Your Pizza concept is simple: just log on to the site, paint a pizza with whoever else is online or paint one yourself, and click to order. You can expect your custom-drawn pizza to arrive hot and hopefully tasty at your door in no time.

paint your pizza 1I don’t really see any option on the site where you can choose what toppings to put on your painted pizza. I suggest using green sparingly though, unless you prefer a pizza covered all over in leaves and veggies. I’ve posted some of my favorite designs in the gallery below, but there are lots of other fun pizza designs over on the Paint Your Pizza gallery too.

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Depending on the complexity of your drawing and the types of ingredients they’d have to use, prices for 18-inch pizzas start at about $30(USD) – assuming there’s a local pizzeria available to do the job. You can have a similarly-sized pie from Pizza Hut delivered to your door for about $13, so yeah, you do the math and see if this novelty is worth it.

[via Geekologie]

Captain Americake (and the Cakevengers)

Fans of Captain America will immediately recognize the superhero in this photo as he pops his head out of this deliciously geeky cake. Though his projectile-shaped head reminds me a little bit of Bullet Bill from the Mario games.

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But Captain America isn’t the only baked Avenger in this room. No, sirree. Iron Man, Hulk and Thor are ready to be devoured by the masses as well. These whimsical Avengers cakes were posted (and made?) by CakeCentral contributor Vera76 and were made for one very lucky child’s birthday party. Why didn’t my parents ever make me stuff like this when I was growing up?

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Avengers, Assemble in my stomach now!

Chocolate Bruce Willis Die Hard Sculpture: Yummy-Ki-Yay!

This chocolate sculpture of Bruce Willis was made for a press conference in Japan for the release of A Good Day To Die Hard. It looks even more like Bruce Willis than Joseph Gordon-Levitt did in Looper. It’s a good day to bite hard on this delicious sculpture.
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Only the Japanese could take a pointless movie sequel and use it as a good excuse to make a life-sized chocolate treat. Who else is going to do it? No one! Thank you, kind people of Japan.

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Come out to Japan… Check your own likeness in chocolate… Have a few bites. Little did John McClane know that Japanese terrorists had turned the heat up in the building, threatening to melt the sculpture unless they got 640 million dollars in bearer bonds.

[via Kotaku via GeekTyrant]

Doctor Who Cookie Cutters: Timey Wimey Tasty Wasty

We’ve previously featured some Doctor Who inspired cookie cutters, but you had to make them yourself using dangerously sharp strips of metal. Now, through the wonders of 3D printing technology, you can actually buy some plastic one, shaped like iconic characters and items from the long-running science fiction series.

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These awesome cookie cutters are made by WarpZone, and are available in a variety of classic Doctor Who shapes, including the TARDIS, Dalek, K9, a Weeping Angel, Cyberman, and a blobby little Adipose. I love all the little details that come through in the cookies too. You’ll be able to easily exterminate the Dalek in your stomach acids, but I’d still be wary of blinking while baking the Weeping Angels.

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There are also cutters made up to look like the 10th or 11th doctor, though I’d rather have a cookie that looked like Tom Baker and his excessively long scarf. Prices for individual cutters range from $5.50 to $6.50 (USD), or you can get a complete set of 8 cutters for $50.

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Cinnamon Bun Soaps Look Way Too Real

While I love cinnamon buns as much as the next guy, I have to say that I’d be sorely disappointed if I bit into one of these pastries. You see, what you’re looking at here isn’t a cinnamon bun at all. It’s an insanely accurate replica of a cinnamon bun, made from soap.

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They’re even made with actual cinnamon to give them that authentic scent. Just don’t try to eat one, unless you want to fill your mouth with moisturizing vegan soap. Yuck. These detailed cinnamon bun soaps are made by Aubrey Elizabeth Apothecary, and are sure to fool even the most avid of pastry connoisseurs.

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They sell for $6.75(USD) for a set of two, which is actually cheaper than getting two Cinnabons – though much less tasty. And when you’re done not eating these, you can find a number of other deceptive food soaps over on Aubrey’s Etsy shop, including such delights as gummy bear, and bacon and egg soap.

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I guess this is one surefire way to lose weight, right?

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Iron Throne Cake: Pay the Fondant Price

Everyone in Westeros is fighting over the Iron Throne, which is kind of funny, since it looks like a very uncomfortable chair. Of course, the whole point is that he who sits on it should never do so comfortably. Never be comfortable with such power.
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I prefer this Iron Throne cake. It is the throne without all of the responsibility and constant bleeding. This tasty throne was created by The Cake Geek, and it was made with chocolate, vanilla, strawberries and fondant sculpted into countless swords.

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Have your throne and eat it too. That’s what Robert Baratheon always said. Or would have, if he had seen this cake.

[via When Geeks Wed via That’s Nerdalicious]

Samsung SodaStream Refrigerator Is One Step from Fulfilling a Childhood Dream

Growing up, there were three things that I wanted to possess so badly I could hardly stand it. One was the General Lee, the other was Heather Thomas, and the third was a refrigerator that had a soft drink dispenser in the door. I don’t think I expected too much. While I’ve grown out of the General Lee phase, and Heather Thomas isn’t as good looking as she once was, I still really want that refrigerator that dispenses Dr. Pepper out of door.

I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with this device for years and it looks like Samsung is now only a small step away from making my soft drink dreams come true.

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Samsung has unveiled a four-door refrigerator that dispenses sparkling water from the door. The sparkling water portion of the refrigerator is courtesy of SodaStream and uses a 60L CO2 cylinder concealed inside of the refrigerator door.

The refrigerator has a button on the front next to the ice and normal water dispensers that allow users to choose from three different carbonation levels for their sparkling water. The refrigerator is model number RF31FMESBSR and will launch in the US this April for $3899(USD). Dreams certainly don’t come cheap.

All I need is this refrigerator, a big box of Dr. Pepper syrup, and some ingenuity and I will possess my dream. I wonder if Heather Thomas can drive the General Lee over to help me. I think my wife will understand.

Who Ordered the Dalek Pizza with Extra Extermination?

The Daleks are the most fearsome creatures that the universe has to offer. They must be since they keep “almost” destroying Earth, the universe and everything in it. The Doctor has known no stronger foe. And now, feast your eyes on the supreme Dalek with extra cheese.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was during the great time war that the Doctor banished the Daleks from time itself. However, unbeknownst to him, one Dalek survived in the resulting chaos as an un-reality bubble landed in a pizzeria just as a baker was flinging some dough. The Daleks had their agent for their eventual return. The extreme supreme extra cheese, full-pepperoni Dalek was born.

If they can not kill us from without, they would kill us from within. Dalek pizzas were made. With heartburn searing human insides so intensely that humans turned to ash after two hours of digestion, they began their plan for domination (and a thriving pizza chain named Taste of Skaro). Their plan would have worked perfectly. If only that damned blue box hadn’t shown up to pick up an order. And that was the end of the great Dalek pizza master plan.

[via Obvious Winner]

Breaking Bad Teddy Bear Cake: Baking Bad

How do you recreate that classic moment from Breaking Bad when the teddy bear falls into the pool? You make a cake honoring the pink bear with the missing eye. Actually the waterlogged teddy appeared in many episodes in Season 2, but it has never looked so delicious as this.
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Redditor hollyicing made this cake while suffering a hangover from the night before – yes, she was truly Baking Bad. It looks just like the burned teddy bear that fell into Walter White’s swimming pool. She says that it is a variation of a madeira cake that’s lemon and passion fruit flavor with passion fruit butter icing and stacked using home made passion fruit and lemon jam. Sounds lovely to me.

The eyeball was going to be a Gobstopper, but she couldn’t get a plain white one the right size so it is white marzipan instead. She splashed it with black food dye and then burnt some of it to get the look just right.

Isn’t it just the sweetest thing you’ve ever seen?

[via Obvious Winner via That’s Nerdalicious via Neatorama]