Pi Week: Legend of Zelda Triforce Pie
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this Hylian Pie with you!
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Pi Week: Bobby Singer’s Hot Toddy Pie
Listen up, idjits! Hunters don’t live a long life, so if I’m gonna waste a few of my precious hours mine making a pie, it damn well better be one I can set on fire. One of you boys make me a Hot Toddy while I show you how this is done.
Read more21 Nerdiest Coloring Books for Grownups (Updated!)
You’d think finding 10 nerdy adult coloring books would be the hardest part of putting together a list like this, but in fact, the most difficult thing was phrasing the title in a way that doesn’t look NSFW. Adult Coloring Books (the mandala kind, not the dirty doodles kind) exploded after the publication of Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden: An Inky
Read moreGeek Cake Friday: 21 Supernatural ’67 Impala Baby Cakes
On The Road So Far, Geek Cake Friday has brought you sugary tributes to everything from The Walking Dead Zombies to Doctor Who Aliens to Hobbit Holes. Sure, I’ve tackled Supernatural cakes before, but quit’cher bitchin. This blog’s driver picks the music. Shotgun shuts your cakehole. Or opens it wide to gape at these tributes to Dean Winchster’s Baby. I
Read moreColorable Compendium of Geek History now for sale!
Good news, adult coloring fans! The coloring book edition of Kitchen Overlord’s Illustrated Geek Cookbook you’ve asked for is now for sale! The 110 page Colorable Compendium of Geek History takes you on a tour of 120 years of fandom from H.G. Wells The Time Machine up through the present including iconic books, movies, TV, comics, and games from every
Read moreCookie Week: Hobbit Hole Door Sandwich Cookies
This holiday season, Kitchen Overlord brings you a collection of nerdy cookies for people who can’t draw. If the idea of creating mini artistic masterpieces in icing makes your hands tremble, we’ve got Hobbit Hole Doors, Exploding TARDISes, Deadpool Freezer Cookies, Sherlock shortbread teabags, edible Ood heads, and Death Star Oreos. No icing pens or art degrees required!
Read moreWelcome, Scalzi Fans! There’s even MORE bread!
Last night, John Scalzi tweeted a picture of my Sandworm Bread. Yes, it tastes even better than it looks. I hadn’t planned on announcing my next book until you could buy it. Two hours and 20,000 unique page views later [edit: by the end of the weekend, it was up to 200,000 views!] it was clear that if people were
Read moreGeek Cake Friday: 21 Hobbit Holes That’ll Make You Hungry
In honor of International Hobbit Week, for this edition of Geek Cake Friday we’ve gathered up enough Hobbit Hole cakes to create your own edible Shire. Scroll through to see renditions by professional bakeries and fellow geeks alike – including an easy tutorial from The Vegetarian Ginger on making your own Hobbit cake! Via Trekker Scrapbook Leonard Nimoy grinning at his
Read moreHobbit Week: Stuffed and Roasted Mushrooms
No hobbit meal is complete without a mushroom dish. These stuffed, roasted mushrooms make a great main course for nights when you’re too tired from adventuring to make a rack of lamb or roast a chicken. In middle class Victorian households, stuffed vegetables were a way to make a meal look a little fancy while also being economical. Instead of
Read moreHobbit Week: Shire-tastic Seed Cake
Many modern readers imagine seed cake to be chock full of sunflower or pumpkin seeds, but it turns out Tolkien grew up on a decadently buttery version of pound cake full of caraway seeds. They have a sweet, licorice flavor reminiscent of a milder, earthier version of anise seeds. You can find them at most Indian groceries. They’ve been out
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