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An Obama Your Kids Can't Resist: Make the President-Elect in Cupcakes

JeanneSager — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:59:00 GMT

If your kids are anything like mine, they fall prey to bribery pretty easily. Bribery in the form of frosted goodness anyway. So if your little one isn't already spouting "President Barack Obama" when you show off pictures of the new commander in chief, how about a convincing them with cupcakes?

Upstate New York cake artist Zilly Rosen put forty hours and plenty of fondant into the recreation of Obama in more than one thousand two hundred cupcakes. Using a photoshopped picture of the president-elect, Rosen mapped out a grid for placing cupcakes iced in nine different shades of fondant. She told Cupcakes Take the Cake the original plan was a bake sale, but she Obama-cakes qualified for campaigning within one hundred feet of a polling place, so Rosen swung by the headquarters of the Obama campaign in Buffalo, NY and dropped her five-foot by six-foot sweet homage to a president-elect off for the hard working volunteers to enjoy.

Think you'll only get a taste via pictures? Think again: a grid is easy enough to make, thanks to this Photoshop tutorial, and this link to the Shepard Fairey Obama Vote poster that Rosen used.

Images: Zillycakes (via Neatorama)

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Save Money: Kids Eat Free at Restaurants . . . Well, Some of Them

JeanneSager — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:03:00 GMT

Apparently, I live in the land of cheapskate restaurateurs. The only place my kid has ever eaten free of charge is the pancake breakfast at the volunteer fire department up the street. Yes, I love my town's bravest.Trying to raise money and still giving back to the community. But I digress. Back to these people who are feeding kids for free.

I'm not sending you out on the bread lines to make do in the economic downturn. You can leave the Dumpster diving to dogs in Disney films. Because Kids Meal Deals lets you search your 'hood for the deals and steals for the food they pack away. Expect it to be heavy on fast food - a flashing bar of participating restaurants on the lefthand side repeatedly shows off the golden arches. A search of my fair city (read rural nosepick town) came up with bupkus at the widest expanse of "search within 30 miles."

Other friends told me they looked and found deals that weren't really deals. Still, it's the thought that counts. And restaurateurs are apparently thinking kid-friendly these days. Considering meals on the town are usually the first thing to go during an economic downturn, I could see this tempting parents out of the house to start spending again.

Or maybe it's just wishful thinking. My Danimals and chicken nuggets bill is climbing.

Image: Purdue

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