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I was bored … and when I get bored, I come up with stupid ideas.  Lots and lots of stupid ideas.  Thankfully, my latest illicit concept actually came together alright.  Ladies and gentlemen, introducing my latest “I have too much time on my hands.” 

What you have up there is a banana pudding popsicle courtesy of Atlanta’s very own The King of Pops.  However, I decided to spice it up with a surgically altered Reese’s doughnut from Sublime Doughnuts.  Needless to say, it was totally awesome (seriously – it tasted great … though it was messy).  Meanwhile, I think Sublime’s Kamal Grant and the King’s Steven Carse need to put this puppy into production.

While these treats are sold separately, you can track them down by visiting KoP’s website and Sublime’s website.

Just some dudes at a Cold Stone Creamery in Dubai mixing and tricking out the ice cream.

[via reddit]

It’s Sunday Funday, so let’s kickback.  Here’s an awesome Super Bowl ad from back in the day. It’s a Snickers commercial, so that qualifies with this guy as a food related topic!!!

Cheers!

Consider this post a big middle finger directed at an unidentified party.  According to RestaurantsATL, the super awesome mega-sized King of Pops mural is apparently gone, up and vanished like a fart in the wind.  The mural was located in the parking lot of Buddy’s Gas Station, which has long served as home base for The King.  Smack dab in the middle of Poncey-Highland, this mural served as a call to arms … it said: “Stop, look at me … there is deliciousness to be had.”

It was fun, it was colorful, and it made me happy and it made the people happy!  According to RestaurantsATL, this is the work of our fabulous city government.  They are of course, enforcing some very serious, totally legitimate city ordinance. Interlude:

Gas Station Employee: I’m starting to picking up your sarcasm.
Richard Hayden: Well, I should hope so, because I’m laying it on pretty thick.

Mayor Kasim Reed (@KasimReed) happens to be a pretty big supporter of street food … so I hope this catches his attention and something is done to restore order in the universe.  If something doesn’t happen in the near future – don’t be surprised if an online petition shows up on this blog!

On a more positive note, I recently noticed that KoP is now at Sheik Burritos … you can get all your KOP news via their twitter feed and their website.

UPDATE: Steven Carse (the King himself) will be on TV tonight – you should be able to catch him on Channel 36 during the 10 o’clock showing and 11Alive sometime between 11pm and Midnight.

[image with permission from RestaurantsATL]

Witness, a dozen of the best Muppet cupcakes I’ve seen.  One can only wonder if these taste as delicious as they look.  Sadly, the Swedish Chef is nowhere to be found!  Still, these rock:

In case you’re wondering – here’s the list of characters:

• Row 1: Fozzie Bear, Gonzo the Great, Statler and Waldorf
• Row 2: Sam the Eagle, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Scooter
• Row 3: Benson Honeydew, Beaker, Animal, Rowlf the Dog

[via Imgur]

I wait for the day when Sublime Doughnuts starts getting lines out the door like it deserves.  In the meantime, I can resign myself comfortably to the fact that I am able to navigate the doughnut list at my leisure without fear of being rushed.  While I was in there a few days back, I was excited to see they had added a little ice cream to their selections. 

All of the ice cream is made on onsite by owner Kamal Grant and his band of merry crack dessert dealers.  A scoop runs $2.25 (each scoop after that is just $1).  I tasted a couple of them and thought there was some real potential.  It wasn’t enough to really convey any great truths about what each flavor held, though the ice cream seemed a really dense … I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.  I have the ice cream IQ of a dufus.  The best thing, and something I’m sure to check out sooner than later, are their ice ream doughwiches (as I’m calling them).  To make them, Kamal uses one of the “shells” from his varied stuffed doughnuts and replaces the filling with ice cream.  He has a couple of concoctions but it appears you can customize your ice cream and doughnut combo.  They clock in at $3.50 (if memory serves me correctly).

* lame phone picture – so apologies – the ice cream does look much better in person.

Star Wars + Cupcakes + LEGOs = Happy Buddha.  You probably already realized this a few weeks ago when a great Star Wars Cupcake photo flickered across my stream.  This time we can thank Rachel Manning and her eye-candy littered Flickr stream for this amazing doozey.  Yes folks, those cupcake minifigs [what you might call the little lego action figures] are all concocted from edible material despite their amazing resemblance to the plastic versions.  I have several of these minifigs in and around my house and I had to do a double take when I stumbled upon this here picture.  In what can only be considered some cruel joke of fate beyond my control … Manning lives in the UK, so no ordering this stuff for us, but nonetheless – it’s awesome to look at.  Take some time to check out her flickr stream and her facebook page!

Though a skilled cake decorator who does things other than fulfill young boys dreams, check out that bad ass Lego Star Wars Millenium Falcon wedding cake, replete with some very detailed cake-based minifigs of Han, Princess Leia, and R2-D2.  Meanwhile, I am pretty sure I just setup my nephew for a tearful day when I sent his mother a picture of Rachel’s Lots-O-Huggin Bear cake.  If she thinks better of it, she’ll withhold the picture as it will sure as shit make the little rascal green with envy.  Manning’s work is a pleasant cacophony of joyful baked goods!

While I’m not a big desserts fan, I do love creative cakes as much as the next person.  Example #3,287: this great looking Super Mario Brothers cake.  Made by cmbooher, this was actually a birthday gift for her boyfriend.  Video game geeks young and old are for ever jealous!

[via Instructables]

Darth Vader and Storm Trooper Star Wars cupcakes … how very evil of you!

[from instagr.am via @GizzyGetBizzy]

I just posted this on my tumblr, but I thought it deserves a shout out here.  I have very fond memories of my Snoopy Sno Cone Machine.  It was Yum Yum Fun and my first foray into food production.  I distinctly remember trying several combinations of syrup that did not work … probably on account of me shoving things into and on top of my machine that most certainly did not belong … Play-Doh anyone?