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Fan Food: Effie Trinket Cupcakes

These Effie Trinket cupcakes have wrappers of Effie's face with frosting for her hair.


Fan Food: Mockingjay Cookies

With the day off on Election Day, I did some baking with my new cookie mold bought on Etsy and made mockingjay cookies!



Fan Food: Frothy Raspberry Soup

Get the recipe for the frothy pink soup dotted with raspberries that Katniss eats in the Capitol.


Fan Food: Katniss’ Arena Groosling Soup

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any Hunger Games food, but I finally got around to cooking a pot of “groosling” soup with chives and parnsips, just like the one Katniss cooks for Peeta in the Arena. ...



3-Tiered ‘The Hunger Games’ Trilogy Cake

For three years now I’ve entered my local Edible Book Contest. Here’s this year’s entry, which I started at 8 PM and finished at 11 AM the next morning with about a 3 hour break in between for some sleep and l...



A Sweet Homage for President Snow

I’ve been baking today, intent on making a creepy President Snow cake to eat to help close out a really super weekend for ‘The Hunger Games’ at the box office. Can you guess what the full cake message is?


Mockingjay Cookies by Not Your Momma’s Cookies

Jennifer over at Not Your Momma’s Cookies sent us the link to her Mockingjay Cookies, which I loved so much that I had to blog about it both here and on Fictional Food because I think they make a rather amazing dessert fo...



Goose Liver and Puffy Bread from the Capitol

Remember when Katniss is looking at all her snazzy gadgets and machines in her room at the Capitol’s Training Center? She walks around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread. This time I’ve tackled that by maki...


District 12 Drop Biscuits

After reading about lots of different grains, I eventually decided that rye was a better candidate for ration grain. I bought a grain mill, rye berries, and goat milk and made my own rye flour to make District 12 drop biscuits,...



Goat Cheese and Apple Tarts (with Recipe)

Some of you may remember that a few months back I tried making goat cheese and apple tarts that Peeta says they make at Mellark’s Bakery. They tasted kind funky, so in the months since then I’ve been researching ano...



Fan Food: Sweethearts Cookies

In anticipation of new visitors tomorrow when a Wall Street Journal article on people that cook food from books (myself included!) is printed, I made some yummy sugar cookies with ‘The Hunger Games’ words pressed in...


Fan Food: Capitol Orange Juice with Frilly White Collared Straws

If you’re not sure what kind of drinks to serve at the Hunger Games themed party you’re planning to throw next year before the movie premiere, try making Capitol straws to go with orange juice, which come with frill...