Food Art

December 17, 2019

This Incredible Baby Yoda-Themed Festive Pie Is Too Cute to Eat

Even if you haven’t watching Disney+’s Star Wars live-action series, The Mandalorian, chances are you’ve seen Baby Yoda (aka The Child) taking over the Internet lately. The adorable little character is the subject of many memes, but he’s also recently inspired a delectable pie crust design by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (of Pies Are Awesome).

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September 25, 2019

Food Artist Gets Kids to Eat Healthy by Turning Meals into Pop Culture Masterpieces

Food artist and mom Laleh Mohmedi transforms ordinary ingredients into edible masterpieces on plates. Working with the likes of pita bread, noodles, and lettuce, she uses the foodstuffs as a painter would wield pigment and brush. The results of her cooking and plating are pop culture portraits of beloved fictional characters. She produces amazing likenesses of all of her subjects—an especially impressive feat considering everything that she produces is edible, too.

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August 2, 2019

These Crafty Cakes Look Like They’re Covered in Elaborate Embroidered Patterns

For years, self-described “flour child” Leslie Vigil has wowed us with her beautiful, blossoming buttercream cakes. On top of magically transforming frosting into flowers, however, the seasoned cake artist boasts another skill: she can craft elaborate embroidered designs out of nothing but piped icing. In her colorful collection of Tapestry Cakes, Vigil covers ordinary sheet cakes in sugary sweet “stitches.

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June 6, 2019

Artist Brilliantly Cuts and Arranges Food into Perplexing Compositions

Of all the places to find artistic inspiration, Japanese art director Yuni Yoshida finds it in her kitchen fruit bowl. She creates surreal food compositions in which apples, oranges, bananas, and other everyday ingredients appear as though they’ve been digitally pixelated and spliced together. Despite the digitized and Photoshopped look, every edible work of art is, in fact, impressively and meticulously crafted by hand.

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