Wednesday Wonder- Not just any ordinary bean

This one is fun and I love Jelly Belly's, so it is really perfect. I am trying to eliminate sugar from my diet so I thought I would write about them instead. Jelly Belly's are not the first things that pop in my mind when I think about art, but I am staring to change my ways.



from the Jelly Belly site. A-maizing!
Click on the picture to go to the recipe at Jelly Belly's site

 Jodi and I have used Jelly Belly's when we were playing with our food http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/04/playing-with-my-food.html to make cupcakes from the Hello Cupcake book written by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. The book is full of cute, no darling, cupcake designs that are made using candies and one of those candies is Jelly Belly's. Well, I bet you never thought that someone would use Jelly belly's for the colorants of a painting... or maybe you would.

The Jelly Belly company itself is having a contest to decorate cupcakes with their product and they will even give money for the best one. It is possible to win 10000 beans, I mean dollars, for it.
Hurry the contest ends soon. Contest begins at 12:00:01 am PT on 11/15/10 and ends at 11:59:59 pm PT on 7/10/11
http://jbcupcakechallenge.com/landing/

I know the more I do these Wednesday Wonders the more I find nothing surprises me anymore and all that I look forward to now is how creative people can get.
I know that when I see others doing things out of the usual, it opens my mind to being and going outside of the usual. Long live the imagination of man.

Artist: Kristen Cumings 4'x4'

Watch this! I think this is so cool! 170 hours of work Geesh!
I can bear-ly believe this is candy and a little kidney shaped sugar delight at that.




these are from the Jelly Belly site and I think they just might be my favorites.
Simple yet so perfect, even down to the metal cupcake papers.
Click on the picture to go to the recipe. 


 If you would like to see some more Belly art you can find it here
http://www.jellybelly.com/Art_Gallery/bean_art_gallery.aspx

Malcom West made this.
Impressive, very impressive.

You can read about the conception of the art of the bean by Pete Rocha here
http://www.jellybelly-uk.com/bean-world/page/?id=25

You can see more UK bean art here http://www.jellybelly-uk.com/fun-stuff/bean-art/ OK, now Belly up to the bar and admit this is cool art, yes art.
Belly, Belly, nice art.

And from Australia http://www.jellybelly.com.au/jb_bean_art_gallery