Food Design At Its Best: 40 Extraordinary Examples Of Edible Art
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By Tim Mercer
Everybody knows you’re not supposed to play with your food but that doesn’t stop these artists from creating some rather extraordinary edible art. Far from the mountains you used to make with your mashed potatoes, these masterpieces could go on display in a museum. Mixing together a little food and a lot of talent is the perfect recipe for some mouth watering inspiration. Check out these 40 extraordinary examples of edible art to kick start your hunger.
Sakurako Kitsa
Tree Frog made with an apple and carrot.
Heron made of boiled egg.
Giraffe made of polenta and roast beef pieces.
Preying mantis made using pea pods and edamame.
Jim Victor
This farm scene was carved from butter.
A large sow and her piglets made of butter.
Another large butter sculpture.
Rebecca
Really cool carving of an orange.
Fish made of bok choy.
These inquisitive looking penguins are made of eggplant.
Jordana Z
My latte has a face in it!
Yoshiko314
Bear face.
The Voyager
A Dr. Suess looking character.
A few other interesting examples of latte art.
Kawasumi
Panda sushi roll.
A re-creation of Van Gogh’s Sunflower painting made entirely from sushi.
Sushi art.
Obama sushi roll.
Akido Ida & Peirre Javelle
Mowing the lawn on a kiwi.
Road work on an eclair.
Tunneling through bread.
Mash-mellow glaciers.
Watermelon work.
Jelly Belly
Indian portrait made with over 9,000 jelly beans.
George Washington made of jelly beans.
Rock Recipies
A gingerbread house base on a real house with lots of detail.
My Opera
Food fights back.
A hand carved out of bread.
Suicidal orange.
Culinarypornstar
Watermelon carving of Marilyn Monroe.
Completeall
Awesome 3D carving of a watermelon.
Relief carving of a watermelon.
612 slices of toast.
Adam Sheldon
Stunning work created from 132 pieces of scraped toast.
Ray Villifan
Insane pumpkin carving of the Predator.
Three dimensional pumpkin carving of a skull.
Olle Hemmendorff
Air Max 90 created out of hamburger for Nike.
Nice examples, but if you are looking for edible art, then you can’t get any better than this.
Delicious Foodscapes
Awesome collection!!
AMAZING – Jelly beans, burgers, butter… who would’ve thought such amazing pieces of art could come from it!
are these for sale?? if so,… where? Great work!
Very funny and creative, really awesome stuff.
Thanks for sharing :)
Can you make a living off this? If so then I have a resignation letter to write
ohhhhh you missed the disney gingerbread house and chocolate carousel – displayed at the deluxe disney resorts in disneyworld over xmas!!
house: http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gingerbread453728LARGE.jpg
Carousel: http://z.about.com/d/hotels/1/0/I/U/2/gingerbread_carousel_PR.jpg
Amazing stuff! Suicidal orange is just the best, haha!
This is unbelievable. Hats off !! to these wonderful artists.
I wish I could do even an inch of it :P
Apparently they did not listen when their parents told them to not play with food. Great!
Awesome post wow but I don’t like playing with my food lol.
Cool Round up…
Obama sushi roll is yummy
And Jim Victor’s Butter Art looks awesome..
Cool Round up…
Obama sushi roll is yummy
And Jim Victor’s Butter Art looks awesome..
Awesome..Cool Round up…
Obama sushi roll is yummy
And Jim Victor’s Butter Art looks awesome..
Thanks for sharing..
Didn’t your parents tell you “not to play with your food?”
;o) Just kidding.
Great works of art!
Dude, this is amazing.
I am going to share this one in my facebook.
Awesome food arts! Funny too!
i really don’t want to eat these great artwork :) awesome
Incredible, and being a food lover myself, kudos to all who put in hours of hardwork and creativity to get the final touch. Its awesome. Liked the Jesus-toast work. What detailing. Wonder how it was done!!
All I can say is that its a yummy list :)
Very Nice…. Especially Fish made of bok choy.. Hard Work…
Love it all.Perhaps this is why I love food so much, so versatile?
after seen your amazing article, my mouth full of water and brain getting inspirations, really awesome art in this post.
I love these! The predator pumpkin is awesome, but I also love the praying mantis made of beans – those creepy mantis eyes.
OVER 9,000 JELLYBEANS!!!
How much fun! Love the imagination involved.
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hahaha coooool yoba!!!
FREAKING AMAZING!!!!! LOVED ALL OF THEM! I love watching the pumpkin carving contests on TV at HALOWEEN
Adding some of my own
I love food and I love what these talented people did with the food!
hahaha…its really amazing
these people are really talented…genius
that’s some really good work!
Fantastic designs , we do have some on our site as well. Do drop by.
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