Maple Bacon Coffee Beer. Enough Said.

Ideally, what would you put in your beer? If you said, maple, bacon and coffee, then your dreams have come true my inebriated brother.

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This Porter beer by Funky Buddha Brewery should make you very very happy. All of those flavors in a beer should add up to a very delightful drink. Here’s how they describe it:

Evoking a complete diner-style breakfast in a glass, Maple Bacon Coffee Porter is a complex beer with a multitude of flavors at play. It pours an opaque ebony brew with a frothy tan head. Aromas of sticky maple syrup, coffee, and cream creep forth from the glass. The mouth feel is luxuriously creamy, with layers of sweet malt, toffee, and roast giving way to waves of smoke, coffee, and salted chocolate. It finishes sticky, rich, and sweet, with the flavor of maple syrup lingering pleasantly on the tongue.

Well sign me up. Unfortunately, I don’t know if or when this beer will be available outside of their brewpub locations, but the company’s website should soon have the answers.

[via Uncrate via Oh Gizmo!]

Polaroid Camera Cheese Slicer: Say Cheese!

Point this “Polaroid” (you’ll get why there are quotation marks later) at someone and tell them to say “cheese.” Chances are, they’ll grin and wait expectantly for the flash to go off…
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…however, that’s not what will happen with this particular one, because you’ll only get a slice of cheese instead. It’s actually a cheese slicer in the form of a vintage Polaroid instant camera, and how it slices and delivers the cheese is all sorts of awesome. You just move it across a block of cheese and voila – instant cheese slices! I don’t recommend trying this with an actual Polaroid camera.

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The Say Cheese Instant Cheese Slicer is available from GamaGo for $10(USD) – at least until Polaroid’s lawyers see it.

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[via Thrillist via Incredible Things]

Bacon, Coffee and Whiskey Soaps for Hipster Germophobes

If you are as big a fan of crispy, crunchy bacon as I am all you will need to hear is this- Bacon Soap. If you need a bit more explanation, here it is. ThinkGeek has some hand soaps in bars that smell like manly food and drink. The hand soaps are available in three scents; the bacon scent we have seen before.

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Made by Outlaw Soaps, the set of three scents include bacon, coffee, and whiskey. I can get behind the bacon-scented soap, it even looks like bacon with the red and white marbling. The coffee soap makes sense too, while I hate the taste of coffee, it smells pretty good.

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The whiskey soap is the questionable one to me. I can only imagine explaining to a cop that pulls you over and smells whiskey that you just took a bath.

Beer Flavored Jelly Beans: Jelly Belly, Meet Beer Belly

Can’t get enough of the taste of beer? Well, forget swigging down pints and pints of liquid. Now you can get the taste you crave from jelly beans. That’s right, jelly beans. Just in time for the Super Bowl, Jelly Belly has announced that it’s adding a hefeweizen inspired Draft Beer flavored jelly bean to its lineup.
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Jelly Belly says that “beer has been a highly-requested flavor for decades” – of course it is. The final beer flavor took about three years to perfect, but now they have it. The Draft Beer flavor jelly bean has a golden color with an iridescent finish. Sadly, it won’t foam slightly when you bite it. C’mon, this is jelly bean technology, not a miracle.

They describe the flavor as “clean with notes of wheat and a touch of sweetness” with a “mildly bready” aroma. And no, there is no alcohol in the new jelly beans. All the taste, none of the awkward drunken pranks that you are used to.

[via Geekologie]

Death Star Cake Attacked by Various Starships

So. Neal recently had a birthday. I don’t know Neal, but clearly he is a lucky guy. He had a very happy birthday thanks to this amazing cake his wife got for him. It has a delicious and deadly Death Star, but that’s not all.
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It depicts an epic space battle between some of the most iconic spaceships from TV and movies. There is a Klingon Bird of Prey, Serenity, a TARDIS, the Millenium Falcon, and even the Enterprise D. Now that is a battle I would like to see.

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This cake is yet another awesome creation from the folks at The Regali Kitchen in the Philippines. That’s no moon. That’s dessert!

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[via Geekosystem]

“The Thing” Cake: Delectably Disgusting

I love old horror sci-fi movies like The Thing. And so does Instructables contributor leftmusing who made this “The Thing” cake for their significant other’s birthday.
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She asked what kind of cake he wanted and it turned out that he wanted something weird and awesome. Not a problem. Since he loves ’80s sci-fi and horror movies, she got an image from John Carpenter’s 1984 version of “The Thing” and went to work.

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Using sculpture tools, some YouTube videos and an appreciation for the grotesque, she created this amazing cake based on the movie. It is so nasty and unappetizing, but that is the point. So, great job, leftmusing. You have achieved your goal.

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Geeky Sprinkles Make Geeky Cupcakes Infinitely More Awesome

Cupcakes are a dime a dozen these days. Bakers are becoming more creative with the sweet treats they’re baking, drawing inspiration from various video game, TV, and movie franchises, like Doctor Who and Harry Potter, to name a few.

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If, however, you can’t be bothered by fondant or lack the necessary skills to paint the aforementioned decors onto your baked goodiess, then you can always cheat by using Geeky Sprinkles, which are exactly what its name implies it is.

Three sprinkles are being offered: the Police Box, Steampunk, and Lightning. They were thought up by Tara Theoharis, who is the creator of Geeky Hostess.

These small bits will, for sure, add so much more fun to whatever you’re topping. You can receive a full set containing all three sprinkle types by making a pledge of at least $26(USD) on Kickstarter.

[via FoodBeast]

Hershey’s and 3DSystems to Offer 3D Printers for Chocolate

Chocolate. It may arguably be better than bacon. And today we have some important chocolate news. Hershey has just announced a partnership with 3DSystems to produce a 3D printer that prints in chocolate. Imagine chocolate shaped like anything, maybe even with a hollow caramel maze inside or something.
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This isn’t 3DSystems first foray into printing candy – they showed off some amazing printers that could output both sugar and chocolate candy models at the recent 2014 CES:

We don’t know when they will have their new Willy Wonka device ready or how much it might cost, but the ChefJet will sell for less than $5,000 and the ChefJet will go for less than $10,000. No word on the Hershey’s version though. You guys just feel free to throw everything you have at this project. Humanity is counting on you.

I can’t wait for finely detailed chocolate Star Trek starships to start rolling out of this machine. The possibilities are endless.

[via Geekologie]

Personalized M&M’s: Perfect for Sending Geeky Valentines

Valentine’s Day is coming soon and if you want to get your love a special geeky treat, these delicious personalized M&Ms could be the way to go. Not only are they delicious candy, each tiny, chocolate, M&M comes with a personalized message printed onto its surface.
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You can go all Han and Leia with “I LOVE YOU. I KNOW.” or the always popular Marty McFly an “I AM YOUR DENSITY.” Princess Bride junkies can go with “AS YOU WISH.” or Avatar fans might like “I SEE YOU.” Just about anything you can fit into 18 characters can be printed onto these M&Ms – though it probably has to be clean. Also, “I AM THE GATEKEEPER” won’t fit.

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You can also include clip art or upload images. Your custom candies will have a unique message and more importantly, they taste great. This is a gift that they will remember for years, or at least until they’ve eaten all of them. Order your custom M&Ms over at mymms.com.

McDonald’s Adventure Time Happy Meal Toys Are Almost Here

So how do you get customers to not only eat your questionable mystery meat products with a side of fries and come back for more? If you are McDonald’s, the key is to offer kick-ass toys. Many people will normally choose a healthier meal, but give them an awesome toy and they will wolf down whatever swill you are serving. I say, serve me up whatever you want, but just make sure you give me that BMO figure and I’m good. Cool?

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A line of Adventure Time toys are coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals starting January 17th. Mathematical! These are the ones. There’s bendy versions of Jake and Finn, a channel-changing BMO, sword-swinging Finn, spring-action Jake, and ice-blast shooting Ice King.

Gotta get ‘em all. They should have no problem selling cheeseburgers and fries this month. In fact, I’m just gonna go claim my own table and live there for awhile. While I wait, I’m going to kill some time coloring:

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[via Kotaku via Geekologie]