Recently, Guichon presented a new mouthwatering creation that once again took social media by storm. He created giant chocolate matches with an accompanying matchbox that is, you’ve guessed it, also made out of chocolate.

In a viral clip shared on TikTok, which received close to 7 million views in less than a week, Guichon is seen creating matchsticks out of caramelized white chocolate before smoking them with oak wood. Then, the pastry chef makes matchstick heads out of “two crunchy vanilla sable cups, a milk chocolate caramel ganache, and a milk chocolate spread” before coating them with caramelized vanilla marshmallow and a thin layer of red-colored chocolate.

Next, he proceeds to build an incredibly realistic matchbox out of chocolate that is 100% edible. When everything is put together, it looks simply fantastic.

Other TikTok users were as amazed with Guichon’s creation as we were and made sure to praise the pastry chef in the comments section.

“I don’t think there’s anything you CAN’T make with chocolate,” one user wrote.

“Idk what level he’s on, but he’s by himself up there,” another added.

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But the journey to being a successful food artist was a long one and demanded patience and grit. “I was around the age of eight when I learned to knit and crochet,” she recalls on her website. “Right from the beginning, I was addicted. I spent many happy hours in my childhood home in Wales totally engrossed in creating ‘things’ with yarn!”

Years later, and her passion for yarn only grew stronger. “It didn’t take me long to realize that I was much better at interpreting an idea by creating it in 3d using wool rather than through painting or drawing,” she admits. This led her to the University of Brighton where she graduated with a BA in Fashion and Textiles in 1995. From then, she built a successful career as a knitwear designer, with her designs used by some of the world’s most famous labels, including Missoni, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren.

“I was always looking for different ways to use my love of wool, textile, and color,” writes Jenkins. “And that’s how my art was born.” Fascinated by the every day, and particularly food, she began to reinvent things like fish and chips using only wool. Her intuition proved to be correct, with other people admiring her recreations.

“While my journey has been varied and exciting, one thing never changes,” she writes. “Whatever I create, whether it’s a carton of French fries, a tin of sardines or a box of frogs I always include lots of warmth and a dash of wit. Above all, I want my work to make people smile.”

The post Kate Jenkins Knits Comfort Food appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Laleh Mohemdi is mother to Jacob and Charlie, and like mothers of many young children, she, too, was struggling to make her children’s meals fuller and more diverse. Children aren’t the biggest fans of change in their diet, and usually prefer to stick to what familiar (and not necessarily healthy), so getting them to eat more vegetables proved quite the challenge. One day she came up with a brilliant solution – why not turn her kids’ meals into their favorite cartoons?

After all, not kid could say no to a dinner shape like their favorite superhero – even if it was made all of cucumbers and broccoli. So Laleh went for it and design her first dinner-cartoon for her kids.

It turned out to be an absolute sensation. The kids loved it! She was so proud she just had to snap a photo and upload it to the web. And as it turned out, her kids weren’t the only ones who loved Laleh’s work. Her design went viral almost overnight, and she decided to go ahead and document her cartoon-dinners on social media.

Today, with over 200k followers on Instagram, Laleh’s food art isn’t just a fun hobby. She’s turned it into a career and has been creating dinner-drawings for brands and celebrities as well as for her kids.

It’s pretty easy to see why she’s so successful. Her fresh take on dinners will make any kid happy to finish all their vegetables.

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In 2006, Jemma had just dropped out of art school and wasn’t sure what to do with her life. To pass the time, she started baking. She had zero experience in the kitchen up to that point, but she also had nothing to lose. slowly she honed her skills, and eventually, her attempts started leading to success – her friends and family loved her cupcakes and could have enough.

Eventually, after a short stint as a worker at a bakery, she decided to venture on her own and build her business. With a borrowed mixer and a second-hand car, she set up a stall in Brick Lane’s Sunday Upmarket and started selling her cupcakes.

A chance encounter with Jamie Oliver led to her launching her channel on his Food Tube Network, where she filmed step-by-step baking tutorials. That’s when she really exploded – young foodies on social media loved her quirky personality and creative cupcakes and she became one of the hottest names in the industry.

The post This YouTube Celebrity Chef Started Out in her Mom’s Kitchen appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Healthy eating was always a big part of her life, and she especially loved making colorful, healthy breakfasts using fresh fruit, waffles, yogurt and more. In June of 2012, she decided to turn her creative breakfasts into her new creative outlet and opened an Instagram account to document her breakfasts and other meals. She plated her food and turned each dish into visual stories.

Slowly but surely, she gathered followers. She now had over 200k followers on Instagram – and has quit her day job to become a full-time Instagram food artist. On top of her IG account, she manages a blog, and has a book coming out soon!

 Ida’s story is as inspiring as her food art, and her meals will make anyone smile in delight. Check out some of her lovely creations.

The post Meet the Data Analyst Who Quit Her Job to Become a Food Artist appeared first on PlayJunkie.

According to De Meal Prepper, she originally wanted to create some visually appealing dishes for her food blog. While doing this, she got “a little too enthusiastic” and ended up making meals that resembled animals, flowers, and pop culture characters.

Some of her creations include rice dish in shape of a hedgehog, mix of fresh seafood and smoked salmon shaped like a deer, and Mung bean and cauliflower puree styled to resemble Baby Yoda.

Check out more of her works below.

The post Food Stylist Creates Tasty Meals in Shapes of Cool Characters appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“As a 3D artist, I never considered attempting Inktober before because, oddly enough, drawing itself was always a challenge for me,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “And because I specialize in food-themed designs, I added another layer of the challenge by choosing a snack associated with the daily prompts and also deemed this as my Snacktober.”

According to him, he had to start each piece two days earlier, so he could finish and post each piece on the respective day of the prompt.

“In the end, I managed to complete all 31 toys within a span of 31 days–and many late nights of course,” he added.

If you are interested to see his work, you can check out his Instagram account and follow him.

The post 3D Artist Created Food-Inspired Vinyl Toys appeared first on PlayJunkie.

This young man impressed people around the world with his incredible cooking and food styling skills and the fact that he has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram, says everything you need to know.

Jose is a vegan so he loves to prepare all kinds of vegan desserts and many of them happen to be shaped like animals.

He created a chocolate cup inspired by a kitten, a cake shaped like a flamingo and he used watermelon and many different fruits to make a shark. We love that most of his creations are inspired by animals and that he’s proving to people that vegan desserts can also be very delicious.

Jose’s motto is “Life’s too short to eat boring food” and we couldn’t agree more. Check out his colorful and inspiring Instagram feed.

The post This 18-Year-Old Creates Amazing Vegan Desserts Shaped Like Animals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Tom Hovey

Tom Hovey has landed the foodie artist’s dream job, serving as The Great British Bake Off‘s resident illustrator, exclusively producing the show’s illustrated graphics of food for over ten years.

“A ten year freelance gig is unheard of, so I feel very lucky,” he admitted in an interview with Lecture in Progress. “It kickstarted my career, gave me a name in the industry and has made my style very recognisable.”

Dingding Hu

Born in China and currently based in New York City, illustrator Dingding Hu has always had a passion for food. This passion runs throughout her digital illustrations which focus primarily on food products. She also runs an online store, named aptly Hu is Hungry, where her illustrations are featured on paper goodies and enamel pins.

“My hometown specializes in a full range of super delicious spicy food, which you can access downstairs from your apartment to a fine dining level restaurant,” she shared, talking about her Chinese upbringing. “New York is amazing how it has cuisine from all over the world on a very authentic level, and some of the fine dining restaurants in New York are fantastic.”

Ipnot

Japanese artist, known simply as ipnot, makes hyper-realistic embroideries of food that seem to leap right out of the fabric (some of them actually do). Using her needle like a paintbrush, she stitches one knot at a time – an embroidery technique known as French knotting, in which the yarn or thread is knotted around itself. According to her, the work that goes into each piece doesn’t actually feel like work. “Rather, it feels like a hobby since I am having fun.” We sure are having fun scrolling through her Instagram page!

The post These Artists Treat Food as Their Muse appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I love making food the most,” said Clay Girl in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I enjoy it because with each try I challenge myself to see how realistic I can make it. I also enjoy it because I spend a lot of time with my grandma, who loves to cook. I often try to make what she is making and she gets a kick out of it. After all, my clay station is in her kitchen next to the fridge.”

According to her, she first started making miniature food after going to occupational therapy in order to strengthen her muscles. “They made me knead a type of putty to build strength in my hands,” she recalled. “That was really boring, so I started making little ‘meals’ out of the putty. I’ve since left the putty behind. Hey, polymer clay keeps me toned!”

Her first miniature was a slice of watermelon, but she’s since moved to more complicated dishes. “I find making meat, like steaks, the most challenging,” she admits. “I just can’t seem to capture the texture. Maybe it’s because I’m a vegetarian.” Inspired by “Donuts and nice people,” her polymer creations are sure to put a smile on your face. Here are some of our favorites.

The post This Clay Kitchen on Instagram Features Miniature Meals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Recently, Guichon presented a new mouthwatering creation that once again took social media by storm. He created giant chocolate matches with an accompanying matchbox that is, you’ve guessed it, also made out of chocolate.

In a viral clip shared on TikTok, which received close to 7 million views in less than a week, Guichon is seen creating matchsticks out of caramelized white chocolate before smoking them with oak wood. Then, the pastry chef makes matchstick heads out of “two crunchy vanilla sable cups, a milk chocolate caramel ganache, and a milk chocolate spread” before coating them with caramelized vanilla marshmallow and a thin layer of red-colored chocolate.

Next, he proceeds to build an incredibly realistic matchbox out of chocolate that is 100% edible. When everything is put together, it looks simply fantastic.

Other TikTok users were as amazed with Guichon’s creation as we were and made sure to praise the pastry chef in the comments section.

“I don’t think there’s anything you CAN’T make with chocolate,” one user wrote.

“Idk what level he’s on, but he’s by himself up there,” another added.

The post Pastry Chef Creates Mouthwatering Giant Chocolate Matches appeared first on PlayJunkie.

But the journey to being a successful food artist was a long one and demanded patience and grit. “I was around the age of eight when I learned to knit and crochet,” she recalls on her website. “Right from the beginning, I was addicted. I spent many happy hours in my childhood home in Wales totally engrossed in creating ‘things’ with yarn!”

Years later, and her passion for yarn only grew stronger. “It didn’t take me long to realize that I was much better at interpreting an idea by creating it in 3d using wool rather than through painting or drawing,” she admits. This led her to the University of Brighton where she graduated with a BA in Fashion and Textiles in 1995. From then, she built a successful career as a knitwear designer, with her designs used by some of the world’s most famous labels, including Missoni, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren.

“I was always looking for different ways to use my love of wool, textile, and color,” writes Jenkins. “And that’s how my art was born.” Fascinated by the every day, and particularly food, she began to reinvent things like fish and chips using only wool. Her intuition proved to be correct, with other people admiring her recreations.

“While my journey has been varied and exciting, one thing never changes,” she writes. “Whatever I create, whether it’s a carton of French fries, a tin of sardines or a box of frogs I always include lots of warmth and a dash of wit. Above all, I want my work to make people smile.”

The post Kate Jenkins Knits Comfort Food appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Laleh Mohemdi is mother to Jacob and Charlie, and like mothers of many young children, she, too, was struggling to make her children’s meals fuller and more diverse. Children aren’t the biggest fans of change in their diet, and usually prefer to stick to what familiar (and not necessarily healthy), so getting them to eat more vegetables proved quite the challenge. One day she came up with a brilliant solution – why not turn her kids’ meals into their favorite cartoons?

After all, not kid could say no to a dinner shape like their favorite superhero – even if it was made all of cucumbers and broccoli. So Laleh went for it and design her first dinner-cartoon for her kids.

It turned out to be an absolute sensation. The kids loved it! She was so proud she just had to snap a photo and upload it to the web. And as it turned out, her kids weren’t the only ones who loved Laleh’s work. Her design went viral almost overnight, and she decided to go ahead and document her cartoon-dinners on social media.

Today, with over 200k followers on Instagram, Laleh’s food art isn’t just a fun hobby. She’s turned it into a career and has been creating dinner-drawings for brands and celebrities as well as for her kids.

It’s pretty easy to see why she’s so successful. Her fresh take on dinners will make any kid happy to finish all their vegetables.

The post This Mom Turns Her Kids’ Dinner into Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

In 2006, Jemma had just dropped out of art school and wasn’t sure what to do with her life. To pass the time, she started baking. She had zero experience in the kitchen up to that point, but she also had nothing to lose. slowly she honed her skills, and eventually, her attempts started leading to success – her friends and family loved her cupcakes and could have enough.

Eventually, after a short stint as a worker at a bakery, she decided to venture on her own and build her business. With a borrowed mixer and a second-hand car, she set up a stall in Brick Lane’s Sunday Upmarket and started selling her cupcakes.

A chance encounter with Jamie Oliver led to her launching her channel on his Food Tube Network, where she filmed step-by-step baking tutorials. That’s when she really exploded – young foodies on social media loved her quirky personality and creative cupcakes and she became one of the hottest names in the industry.

The post This YouTube Celebrity Chef Started Out in her Mom’s Kitchen appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Healthy eating was always a big part of her life, and she especially loved making colorful, healthy breakfasts using fresh fruit, waffles, yogurt and more. In June of 2012, she decided to turn her creative breakfasts into her new creative outlet and opened an Instagram account to document her breakfasts and other meals. She plated her food and turned each dish into visual stories.

Slowly but surely, she gathered followers. She now had over 200k followers on Instagram – and has quit her day job to become a full-time Instagram food artist. On top of her IG account, she manages a blog, and has a book coming out soon!

 Ida’s story is as inspiring as her food art, and her meals will make anyone smile in delight. Check out some of her lovely creations.

The post Meet the Data Analyst Who Quit Her Job to Become a Food Artist appeared first on PlayJunkie.

According to De Meal Prepper, she originally wanted to create some visually appealing dishes for her food blog. While doing this, she got “a little too enthusiastic” and ended up making meals that resembled animals, flowers, and pop culture characters.

Some of her creations include rice dish in shape of a hedgehog, mix of fresh seafood and smoked salmon shaped like a deer, and Mung bean and cauliflower puree styled to resemble Baby Yoda.

Check out more of her works below.

The post Food Stylist Creates Tasty Meals in Shapes of Cool Characters appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“As a 3D artist, I never considered attempting Inktober before because, oddly enough, drawing itself was always a challenge for me,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “And because I specialize in food-themed designs, I added another layer of the challenge by choosing a snack associated with the daily prompts and also deemed this as my Snacktober.”

According to him, he had to start each piece two days earlier, so he could finish and post each piece on the respective day of the prompt.

“In the end, I managed to complete all 31 toys within a span of 31 days–and many late nights of course,” he added.

If you are interested to see his work, you can check out his Instagram account and follow him.

The post 3D Artist Created Food-Inspired Vinyl Toys appeared first on PlayJunkie.

This young man impressed people around the world with his incredible cooking and food styling skills and the fact that he has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram, says everything you need to know.

Jose is a vegan so he loves to prepare all kinds of vegan desserts and many of them happen to be shaped like animals.

He created a chocolate cup inspired by a kitten, a cake shaped like a flamingo and he used watermelon and many different fruits to make a shark. We love that most of his creations are inspired by animals and that he’s proving to people that vegan desserts can also be very delicious.

Jose’s motto is “Life’s too short to eat boring food” and we couldn’t agree more. Check out his colorful and inspiring Instagram feed.

The post This 18-Year-Old Creates Amazing Vegan Desserts Shaped Like Animals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Tom Hovey

Tom Hovey has landed the foodie artist’s dream job, serving as The Great British Bake Off‘s resident illustrator, exclusively producing the show’s illustrated graphics of food for over ten years.

“A ten year freelance gig is unheard of, so I feel very lucky,” he admitted in an interview with Lecture in Progress. “It kickstarted my career, gave me a name in the industry and has made my style very recognisable.”

Dingding Hu

Born in China and currently based in New York City, illustrator Dingding Hu has always had a passion for food. This passion runs throughout her digital illustrations which focus primarily on food products. She also runs an online store, named aptly Hu is Hungry, where her illustrations are featured on paper goodies and enamel pins.

“My hometown specializes in a full range of super delicious spicy food, which you can access downstairs from your apartment to a fine dining level restaurant,” she shared, talking about her Chinese upbringing. “New York is amazing how it has cuisine from all over the world on a very authentic level, and some of the fine dining restaurants in New York are fantastic.”

Ipnot

Japanese artist, known simply as ipnot, makes hyper-realistic embroideries of food that seem to leap right out of the fabric (some of them actually do). Using her needle like a paintbrush, she stitches one knot at a time – an embroidery technique known as French knotting, in which the yarn or thread is knotted around itself. According to her, the work that goes into each piece doesn’t actually feel like work. “Rather, it feels like a hobby since I am having fun.” We sure are having fun scrolling through her Instagram page!

The post These Artists Treat Food as Their Muse appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I love making food the most,” said Clay Girl in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I enjoy it because with each try I challenge myself to see how realistic I can make it. I also enjoy it because I spend a lot of time with my grandma, who loves to cook. I often try to make what she is making and she gets a kick out of it. After all, my clay station is in her kitchen next to the fridge.”

According to her, she first started making miniature food after going to occupational therapy in order to strengthen her muscles. “They made me knead a type of putty to build strength in my hands,” she recalled. “That was really boring, so I started making little ‘meals’ out of the putty. I’ve since left the putty behind. Hey, polymer clay keeps me toned!”

Her first miniature was a slice of watermelon, but she’s since moved to more complicated dishes. “I find making meat, like steaks, the most challenging,” she admits. “I just can’t seem to capture the texture. Maybe it’s because I’m a vegetarian.” Inspired by “Donuts and nice people,” her polymer creations are sure to put a smile on your face. Here are some of our favorites.

The post This Clay Kitchen on Instagram Features Miniature Meals appeared first on PlayJunkie.