Caloric Art

     As promised! I usually won't do two blogs in one day, but I figured Chuck Norris should come tomorrow, because that will be a lot more in depth. 

      Diet tip 'o' the day: When baking, or cooking in general, make sure to eat 10 minutes before you start. 1 cup of lettuce is approximately only 8 calories (0 from fat) and 1 tbsp. of low-cal/low-fat dressing is usually in the 60-100 calorie area. **SHAMELESS PROMOTION: Wishbone low-cal salad spritzers are only 10 calories, 1 from fat, for 10 sprays. That's only ONE calorie per spray! The Balsamic Vinaigrette brand is my favorite.** By doing this, you cut back on the desire to snack on your creation along the way, you increase the healthy calories and eliminate unhealthy calories, and you save the batter for the cake! Just think about it. 8 calories from lettuce, 10 calories if you use the Wishbone spritzer, and that's an 18 calorie (with 1 calorie from fat) snack or meal that leaves you feeling full AND is healthy!

        You know how for family get-togethers and parties it really helps those hosting sometimes to contribute some food? While on the internet, someone wrote that she purposefully spent a lot of time on the desserts she was asked to bring by making the decorations beautiful. She said that it was much more fulfilling at the parties to get many compliments on how lovely the creations were, and it was much LESS filling at the same time since she was much less inclined to ruin the masterpiece that was her dessert. By turning her sweets into beautiful works of art, she created an aesthetic crowd pleaser AND really lost the desire to eat something that to her was now art!

      The following are pictures I found on sites like Flickr and Google, where others have turned sweet food into art, making desserts so much more pleasing to look at and admire you hardly have room in your brain to consider eating them.

**Wall-E (a character from a Disney-Pixar movie) cake**

 

http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/coolcakes04.jpg

**Big Mac cake in custom cake box**

 

Cool Cakes Co. 

**Blackberry cake, for those workaholics out there**

 

Cool Cakes Co. 

**Nutty owl cupcakes**

   

http://catchingfireflies.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/08/owl_cupcakes.jpg

 **AND, from a collection of 12, two of my favorites...**

 http://www.mrmalique.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cookiemonster1.jpg

      Last but not least! Another baking tip: while baking, fill your sink with warm, soapy water, so you can put used bowls and spoons in the water immediately. This, obviously, prevents you from licking those calories off. Think of it this way, the less you eat while making it, the more (although not completely) guilt free you can be while snacking on the aftermath of your creation. 

Muah dears, get those artistic vibes flowing and make art too good to eat!


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