sweets
How-To: Make Cookie Dough Cookies with Christina Tosi
Pastry queen Christina Tosi shows us how to make her dream cookie: the cookie dough cookie. It combines the best of both worlds, with a lightly baked outside and a gooey-raw inside.
Mariah Carey's Sugar Cookies Recipe
If you can't look or sing like Mariah, at least you can bake like her.
This Chocolate Mona Lisa Is 100-Percent Edible
"I can’t really give you any secret tips about how to paint the Mona Lisa in chocolate other than I went for it and hoped for the best!"
Campaigners Accuse These ‘Distressing’ Sweets of Stigmatising Mental Illness
“The product needs to be quickly withdrawn from sale and Poundland needs to apologise.”
Gigantic Smashed Candy Sculptures Will Give You a Sugar High
Hyperrealist sculptor Peter Anton has created sculptures of cherry pie, confetti cake, ice cream sundae, and a chocolate bunny, amongst other sugary treats, then smashed them.
Watching Candy Melt in Reverse to Classical Music Is the Best
Mass-produced sweets get a fiery death to Vivaldi in a fun little short by Erwin Trummer.
Experts Say Junk Food Should Be Sold in Plain Packaging Like Cigarettes
University of Cambridge neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz claims that the colorful branding of unhealthy foods causes people to overeat.
Let Them Eat Vagina Cake
Women are making super graphic sweets for baby showers in celebration of the life-giving power of their bodies.
How Eating Too Many Sweets at the Fun Fair Became a British Tradition
The relationship between confectionary and the fair goes beyond throwing up on the waltzers. Traditional fairground sweets like Northern Ireland’s Yellowman honeycomb or Scottish mint Hawick Balls are intertwined with social history.
Melting Like a Shave Ice in the Hot Summer Sun
I spotted the "HAWAIIAN SHAVE" sign from down the street and pulled into the gas station. The plastic seat cover from the spa, which had adhered to my skin with an admixture of spray/sweat, ripped as I exited the truck.
Sonic Designed Square Milkshakes Specifically for Instagramming and It's Weird
These days, some corporate entity will hold one of life’s sweetest pleasures hostage—unless you’re in attendance at Coachella on April 16, and are willing to shill for a major fast-food brand and let them camp on your Instagram feed.