Food Art

January 16, 2016

Baker Uses Cookies As Confectionary Canvases for Colorful Art

Artist Holly Fox creates colorful confections that are a feast for the eyes (and stomach, of course). Using eccentric cookie cutters to her advantage, Fox has been illustrating her very own cookies for the past five years, and she recently started selling them on Etsy. Whether she's baking soon-to-be rainbow ghosts, vibrant flamingos, or pastel ice cream, the cookie artist aims to embrace her love of custom colors.

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December 30, 2015

Mesmerizing Rainbow Cake Changes Colors As It Spins

Thanks to her impressive airbrushing skills, YouTuber CharlotteSometimes designed a cake that's essentially a rainbow optical illusion. Although it may sound like something out of a culinary fairy tale, the baker's color-changing cake is both nonfictional and edible. At first glance, the cake appears to feature warm, sunrise colors like red, yellow, and orange; however once you spin the cake on its rotating stand, it quickly transforms to reveal the cooler tones of purple, blue, and green.

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August 12, 2015

Artist Turns the Sugar Hiding in Soft Drinks into Giant Lollipops

Food photographer Henry Hargreaves took an artistic approach to finding out how much sugar's contained within various drinks for his project titled (de)hydrate. He started out by boiling the refreshments, so that the water evaporated and the sugary contents remained. He then poured the leftover caramelized mixture into lollipop molds that were based on the size of the drink's container. These giant sugary treats are meant to give consumers some perspective.

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August 22, 2014

Photos Highlight How Different 200 Calories Looks in Certain Foods

What does 200 calories worth of food look like? The website Wisegeek conducted a study of 71 different edibles to find out. They proportioned things like peanut butter, canned beans, fruits, veggies, and even soda into 200 calorie quantities and photographed the results. It's surprising to see what this actually looks like when on a plate. Some foods, like candy, are high in calories compared to their size.

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