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These fat, shiny, sugar-crusted gumdrops could make Willy Wonka weep for joy, and a dentist weep, period.

Given that the best candy can trigger nearly hallucinatory pleasures (chalk it up to the sugar high), it's somewhat fitting that this is not actually a photo of gumdrops. Technically, it is, but what you're really looking at is a photo of another photo of gumdrops. Taken by johnnypants over at Flickr, it's a shot of a promotional poster at Ikea. Sneaky, eh? Still, you've got to hand it to those Swedes: just as their furniture can fool anybody into thinking they know their way around an Allen wrench, these gumdrops are so vivid that you'd be forgiven for thinking they were gobbled up right after this photo was taken. And maybe they were ... somewhere in Sweden.

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Don't have an ice cream maker? No problem. You don't need one to make kulfi, a molded milk-based ice cream from India.

These beauties come from Nicisme on the Slashfood Flickr pool, from her Cherrapeno blog, adapted from Passionate About Baking. They're flavored with cardamom and frozen overnight in silicone molds, though you can use any kind of mold you have.

Kulfi is denser than ice cream, but since it's made with milk instead of cream, it's also less rich. The single serving size makes them perfect for an afternoon snack (heck, what with the fruit and nuts we might eat one for breakfast!).

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Way to give the much-smirked-about bran muffin a deserved makeover, ErinCooks! These elegantly proportioned muffins, adapted from Epicurious, eschew the sugary add-ons like chocolate chips that so often turn a healthy breakfast item into a 500-calorie monster. The recipes calls for nothing more than bran, flour, butter, brown sugar, one egg, sour cream, molasses, baking soda and salt. I can almost taste that nutty, lightly sweetened bran goodness. Now we just need to rehab the poor prune. ...

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Ever since the election ended, I've felt a renewed sense of patriotism and hope for the future. It seems that I'm not the only one who's feeling such enthusiasm. Average Betty has been inspired by the country's recent democratic exercise and so has whipped up a batch of American as Apple Oatmeal Muffins. Full of fruit and fiber, these breakfast treats will fill you up with patriotic pride.

Thanks Average Betty, for adding your picture to the Slashfood Flickr pool.

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I spent some time in a friend's community garden patch yesterday, helping her harvest string beans, several handfuls of basil, some tomatoes and a whole mess of squash. She didn't plant any traditional zucchini this year which means I've had to get my zucchini fix from my farm share and the farmers market. However, there's nothing that says summer to me quite like zucchini and these four freshly picked ones are gorgeous examples of the season's bounty.

Thanks to Ataradrac for adding this pic to the pool!

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