What better way to turn the institution of marriage on its head than with a divorce cake?

One of cake designing house Charm City Cakes‘ latest clients wanted to celebrate the finalization of her divorce with a black cake that literally creates an image of an upside down marriage with…well, an upside down cake.

The five level cake even has an upside down bow. Divorce can be tough, but things are always better with a little cake, don’t ya think?

Summertime is upon us people, and when I think of backyard barbecues and picnics in the park, my mind immediately conjures up images of unicorns. Unicorns seem to be all the rage these days (Taco Bell really seems to like making out with them), so why not take advantage of this fad, and get yourself a set of Uni-Corn Corn Holders?

Once you whip these multi-colored bad boys out, it’s  pretty much a guarantee that you will be the star of any social event this season. Added bonus: if you find that anyone gives you a hard time about having a set, they can also double as a threatening weapon- although I don’t recommend stabbing your friends as a way to liven up a summer party.

Chances are if you own something like Uni-Corn Corn Holders, you probably don’t have any friends anyways. I kid- Enjoy! Maybe even pair them with an ear of these rainbow-colored Glass Gem Corn cobs!

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With the highly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises film release coming in late July, Mountain Dew has teamed up to release a limited time only flavor called Dark Berry.

The collaboration will include both in store and on-pack Dark Knight takeovers, and the flavor itself will be on store shelves for eight weeks beginning in June.

In addition, there will be select 16-oz cans of Mtn Dew that will receive a Thermochromic face-lift inspired by the Dark Knight himself. Special cans will use a special ink to feature a bat symbol that illuminates DEW green when chilled.

For those of you who have been living under a rock, here’s the latest trailer for the Dark Knight Rises:

Acclaimed New York chef, Mario Batali, has descended from the Mount Olympus of Cuisine in order to feed his family the same way 46 million Americans feed themselves- with food stamps. Since Congress is threatening potential cuts to the program, Batali and his family have accepted the challenge (presented by the Food Bank for New York City) of eating for one week on a strict budget, in protest.

If the calculations are correct, that means about $31 per person can be spent on food for the entire week, or to break it down even further, $1.48 per person, per meal.  Now, that would seem like a tall order to fill for a lot of people, but it must be exceptionally difficult for someone like Chef Batali, who is used to eating and working with some mighty fine foods.  Although this ingenious plan was cooked up by their father (heh, see what I did there?), Batali’s kids seem to be handling it well:

“They’re having more peanut butter and jelly than they’ve had in the last 10 years because bread is inexpensive and peanut butter and jelly, if you buy it at the right place at the right time, is cheap,” Batali said.

Sound the trumpets! They have to eat sandwiches and buy crappy school lunches? Such martyrdom! I am pretty sure that experience describes my entire childhood and most of the time I spent in college, but hey, we appreciate your sacrifice.

The chef’s reaction to the experience thus far?
“I’m f–ing starving.”

Welcome to America, Mario.

[Via The Huffington Post and ABC News]

Menu creators across the country often use the term ‘California’ to add a particular flair to some of their restaurant offerings, with the usual move including some integration of avocados to a staple dish.

Food blogger Nick who muses that his kitchen work is akin to being the indie rock of the foodiesphere, has put his own twist on the Eggs Benedict, two-ways.

Both of his California Eggs Benedict creations feature a slice of sourdough bread in place of the traditional English muffin.

The first piece pays homage to the plethora of quality street tacos available throughout the state by topping the slice of bread with carne asada steak, a poached egg and Hollandaise sauce.

The second piece plays to the popularity of sushi in the state, featuring the same ingredients as the previous dish, but substituting the carne asada with fresh sashimi grade tuna.

If you had to chose between only one of the two California Benedict creations to try, which would you settle on? Sound off in the comments!

(Via DudeFoods)

What has more than 400 bacon strips, over 100,000 calories and over 9,000 grams of fat? The homemade Boss Bacon Burger, that’s what.

Over-the-top YouTube cooking show Epic Meal Time have managed to piece together one of their most frightfully gully sandwiches to date. The buns are custom made, the patties are made from a ground beef and ground bacon mix, with a humongous pocket of pure bacon strips in the middle, topped with a homemade bacon cheese sauce, a root beer Jack Daniels sauce poured on a mountain of 400 additional strips of bacon.

Without further ado, a bacon burger taken to the very, very next level:

What do food trucks and hookers have in common? They both work the streets! Rough times and steep competition are pushing food truck owners to either get more creative or more… desperate.

Long Island resident, Catherine Scalia falls into the latter category. This go-getter not only ran her own hot dog truck but also advertised her escort service out of it. Sex sells right? Wrong. At least not when it’s illegal.

Scalia was recently busted for offering an undercover cop a $50 hand-job. If I could give her any type of business advice, I would say price your hand-jobs higher to cover the possible risks and don’t sell yourself short.

[via: eater.com, photo: NYPost]

It’s summer, which means Slurpee season is in full effect. 7-Eleven, the home of the iconic frozen drink, is launching a sugar-free line of flavors for the occasion under the branding Slurpee Lite.

The first release in what has been inked as a series of new Lite flavors being released throughout the summer months is a Fanta Sugar-Free Mango, which promises all of the flavor of a traditional Slurpee drink but with 50 percent fewer calories. The flavor is formulated by Fanta and sweetened with Splenda (sucralose), and are available exclusively at 7-eleven stores.

Each 8-fluid ounce surving of a Slurpee Lite frozen drink only contains 20 calories.

Here’s a calendar view of the six new limited-edition flavors you can expect throughout the summer:

It’s called REMIX, and according to DJ Pauly D, it’s a line of “ready to drink” cocktails that were made for those individuals looking to get their ‘pre-game’ on.

Come June 2012, famous Jersey Shore housemate Pauly D will launch the REMIX: Pre-Game Cocktail in his own home state of Rhode Island, New Jersey and other key markets. The new cocktail hopes to find a serious niche in the prepared cocktails segment of the liquor industry, with a huge banking on “pre-gaming” as a branding tool.

The entire line is being branded as RTD, aka “Ready-To-Drink.” Someone put some money in the douchebag jar for facilitating that acronym, we’ll start (imagine us putting a twenty-dollar bill into the community douche pot, thanks).

What’s pre-gaming?

Pre-gaming is the act of drinking before going out. You can pre-game before going to a theme park, before going to a club or party, or simply pre-game before going out to drink some more.

REMIX: Pre-Game Cocktail

REMIX boasts a range of original flavors, many of which are silly tie-ins to many of Pauly D’s sayings, tattoos and lifestyle notes.

Oye Mojito is a flavor that combines peeled lime and muddle mint. Yeah Yumberry, a mix of red berry and raspberry, with a hint of dark berry, gets its name from a play on Pauly’s key tag line “Yeah Buddy.”

The Strawberry Holla-peno flavor is a blend of ripe strawberry and jalapeno. The Starfruit flavor features a mix of starfruit and apple lime, with the name nodding to Pauly D’s “new star power phenomenon,” but we refuse to regurgitate that. We’ll just assume it’s named after that star tattoo the guy has on his elbow.

The 750ml bottles will have a suggested retail price of $14.99, a pricepoint he hopes to be quite accessible to his large fan base.

As soon as we get our hands on a bottle, we’ll let you know how it tastes…and if it’s worthy of a pre-game session.

I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t seen a single episode of HBO’s popular new series Game of Thrones.

Apparently (spoiler alert coming), significant character Eddard Stark (birth name) was publicly beheaded and his head placed on a spike. That’s more than enough info for me to give value to these amazing cake pops, and without reference to the Game of Thrones television show, these gruesome bite-sized desserts stand awesomely on their own (terrible pun not intended).

The recipe features a red velvet cake mix, cream cheese frostig, bamboo skewers, white, yellow pink, red, and brown candy mets as well as a black food writer.

If you’re looking to make a batch of these for your next Game of Thrones viewing party, you can view the recipe in full here.