Incredible Dark Crystal Wedding Cake

Dark Crystal Wedding Cake

This incredible wedding cake from Little Cherry Cake Company in the UK features some amazingly detailed characters from the 80s movie Dark Crystal. The layers depict different scenes from the movie and it’s even topped with cute fondant versions of Jen and Kira. This cake won a gold medal at the International Cake contest in Manchester. The only thing we don’t know is, what flavor is the cake?

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The Science of Chocolate

While you unwrap that luscious truffle, let Hank explain the science of chocolate — where it comes from, what its active ingredient is, and how it works. Also learn the difference between chocolate, cocoa, cacao and coca, so you really know what you’re talking about the next time you pas the candy disk.

How Coffee Affects Your Brain

How much coffee is too much coffee? It would be hard – maybe impossible – to OD on coffee. You’d likely vomit before a toxic level was reached. But the equivalent caffeine from pills has been fatal. Caffeine pills cause most caffeine-related ER deaths because of what they do to your heart.

Fun Times With Pizza Parlour Special Requests

When you order a pizza, especially online, you know how there’s that little field for “special instructions”? Usually people just add things like “don’t scrimp on the pepperoni” or “Nana is allergic to garlic”. But a fun thing to do is to ask for random whacky things like jokes or pictures drawn on the box. Even cutting the pizza into interesting shapes seems acceptable. They give you the field to write something, it’s almost as if they’re daring you to use it!

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Starbucks’ Secret Menu

Like most places, Starbucks has a secret menu full of lesser known concoctions. These off menu items may annoy your barista, but may give you a tasty treat as you feel superior to those that aren’t in the know

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