L.A Street Food Fest founders Shawna Dawson and Sonja Rasula

Los Angeles’ first annual Street Food Festival is being held Valentines Day weekend. On Saturday February 13th, 36 food trucks/vendors and 30 art/ design vendors will come together in one spot.  This will be a great way to spend V-Day with your foodie and try all the new food trucks that you’ve been having your eye on. No need to hunt them down this time, they will all be at LA Center Studios from 11am to 5pm. They will also be offering special priced tasting menus from $1-$5. Hit the jump for more info

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Yeap! It’s that time of year, your favorite cookie buying season. I can’t wait to get my hands on some Samoas and Thin mints. Mmm frozen thin mints. I’m excited to find out  a few new cookies are added to the mix this year: Sugar free little brownies, All-Abouts with chocolate coating on one side, lemon iced shortbread Lemonades and All-Abouts with a new name “Thank-A-Lot”, which have the word Thanks written on them in 5 different languages.  Make sure to go support your local girl scouts and stock up on them cookies. I’m sure there will be a lot of fun recipes floating around using these cookies as well. Happy Girl Scouting!

Typography + baking at its finest

Helvetica font cookie cutters designed by Beverly Hsu.  I wish these would get produced and be available for sale. Hopefully one day, the design and baking world would be very happy

I’m sure you remember the 5 minute chocolate cake in a mug recipe floating around, well now there is actual microwavable silicon cake molds that are shaped to make the components of retro digital figures. You can also find fun ways to arrange the figures and make any number combinations. They are available to order on Suck UK for about $14.oo.

Yakisoba is a popular fried noodle dish in Japan. It is commonly served as a main dish. It is cheap, fast and delicious! It is prepared by stir-frying ramen noodles with bite size pieces of pork, carrots, cabbage, onion and flavored with yakisoba sauce. It is commonly garnished with seaweed powder and Japanese mayonnaise. All Japanese markets and the ethnic section of your local grocery store should have the ingredients you need. Here is the recipe for making a Japanese homemade dish under $10 dollars.

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While browsing the new arrival section of Bake It Pretty, I came across the Make Your Own Cookie Cutter Kit! With all the current sugar cookie talk and option to order custom cookie cutters , why not make them yourself? Here is a kit that includes all the supplies to make 6-8 standard cookie cutters for $21.50. Hopefully I’ll pick it up soon and post a product review. For those who don’t want to purchase a kit, and just want the instructions, you can find them here.

*Update: You have a chance to win your own Cookie Cutter Kit on the Bake it Pretty Blog! Make sure to enter to win. Good Luck!

In today’s growing choices of specialty bakeries and desserts, we like to keep it local and choose Sweet Sugar Cookies for our sugar cookie needs. Owned and operated by Jennifer Carrillo in Alhambra, CA, this small company considers every detail when preparing your specialty cookie order. We had a chance to catch up with Jennifer and ask her a few questions about her cookie company. Check out her interview and the special Fullybaked x Sweet Sugar Cookies giveaway after the jump.

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