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Is it Pac-Mac, on his way to eat some pellets? Or a elementary school fraction problem?

If you guessed "None of the above" you're correct. It's actually an Apple Stack Cake from the guys at The Bitten Word, with one delicious slice removed. It's a cake that Zack's grandmother used to prepare, and he made it in her honor as she recently passed away (one of the things I love about food is the way it can bring back wonderful memories of friends and family who aren't around anymore). It's nothing more than vanilla cake and a spiced apple spread, making it a great way to top off both a simple dinner with friends, or your family's holiday meal.

Thanks guys, for adding your gorgeous picture to the Slashfood Flickr pool.

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With E3 in full swing this week (full coverage on our sister blog Joystiq), I thought it might be a good time to post my incredibly fun pac-man cake. It's not very difficult to make and since it uses cupcakes and mini-cupcakes, it can be made for any number of people to enjoy.

Start with any size batch of cupcakes and mini-cupcakes prepared in paper holders so you can move them around easily. I used red velvet cake because it was the preference of the birthday boy whose wife requested this cake. The background obviously needs to be black so you can use either black foil cake board wrap or, as I did, just use black poster-board. It has a nice dull finish for the video screen effect and since the cupcakes are in paper cups, they'll never touch it anyway.

I used black buttercream icing purchased from my wonderful and helpful local bakery shop. I've never successfully created true black icing and always just get really dark gray but theirs is tasty and crusts well. All of the cupcakes were iced and smoothed for a flat surface. I found my round cut-outs incredibly helpful for this cake. The smallest size circle was used with light yellow fondant to make the pac-dots and the middle size for the power pellets, both of which were placed on the mini-cupcakes to create the maze of the game. The largest circle was a perfect size for our hero in dark yellow fondant with a small triangle cut out for his mouth.

No this isn't a picture of some freaky '80s inspired outsider art, but it could be. It's from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories' step-by-step tutorial on how to cook your own papadum with pictures over at Instructables.

Apparently making the crispy Indian wafers at home is a breeze. Just pick up some at your friendly neighborhood Indian grocery store. The store these folks go to offers two choices, scary bunny and plain package. Oddly enough, the ones in the plain package are spicy.

Before they're cooked, papads are thin and crunchy. When I was in college I didn't know you had to cook them so my buddies and would use them like tortilla chips whenever we had our lime pickle eating contests. Had I only known how easy they are to cook, just place them right over your gas burner and be prepared to quickly flip.

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