Edible Quilling Cake

Edible Quilling Cake   Edible Quilling Cake: Happy Caker from TJ’s Happy Cakes made a Quilling Cake which looks simply fabulous. She’s not alone though, if you google “quilling cake”, you will find many examples of creative bakers who incorporate the age-old art of quilling.  

Flex Mex

Flex Mex (Tortilla Hexaflexagon)     Math enthusiast and youtube contributor, Vi Hart, gives you Flex Mex, an amazing lecture in flexahexagons camouflaged as a cooking lesson.   A round tortilla is cut into strips and converted into a hexaflexagon. Wait – not done!   The flexagon is then converted into a hexaflexagon burrito. It’s…

Tessellated Cakes

Tessellated Cakes   Tessellated Cakes: origami tessellations are a special branch of origami that involves folding one sheet into a repeating pattern. Origami tessellations are beautiful structures.   Ilan Garibi has found the secret of making origami-tessellation cakes. He folds Elephant Hide paper into the desired shape, coats the paper with foil, then uses it…

Origami Cinnamon Sugar Crisps

Origami Cinnamon Sugar Crisps Origami artist, Marcela Brina, makes delightful Cinnamon Sugar Crisps with an Origami Twist. To do this, won ton wrappers are folded into easy origami shapes, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and then baked at 400°F. A treat for the eyes and for the taste buds! See details here. Shown are the simple…

Jellogami

Jellogami or Jello Origami   Jellogami: This origami bird or crane is made from jello-like sheets (assembled, not folded, into a bird).   First, dissolve gelatin into water to create a concoction. Paint the concoction into thin sheets. As you wait for the gelatin sheets to solidify, fold a paper crane (for fun, and to…

Icing Sugar Origami

Icing Sugar Origami Mandy Weaver uses fondant icing sugar to decorate origami-inspired cakes. The decorations are folded from sheets of fondant icing which she rolls out herself. [Photo by G Aharoni]

Nori Origami

Nori Origami   Many people are familiar with nori as dried sheets of seaweed that are used to make sushi or can be eaten as a stand-alone snack. Given that you can buy nori as square sheets from your local Asian grocery store, it doesn’t take much for people to get creative and make nori…