candy | Foodiggity

Candies Matched To Pantone Swatches

January 14, 2016 by Chris Durso

If we ever needed to match a color to food, smoothies or beer — PANTONE color swatches have got us covered. Now, candy gets color-matched with Pantone IRL.

Check out more sweet matches below and over at Instagram.

[link, via designtaxi]

How To Make A Candy-Pooping Reindeer Out Of A Pringles Can

December 7, 2015 by Chris Durso

Get your hand out of there and clean out the crumbs — because that Pringles tin can be turned into an adorable Candy-Pooping Reindeer.

With a few tools, craft items, and the aforementioned Pringles tin, Ananda from A Piece of Rainbow shows us how to make the most adorable candy-pooper ever.

Fill yours with your favorite candies. And, please, do not fill it with only brown M&M’s. We all know that reindeers’ poop is multi-colored. Tutorial below.

[link, via MAKE]

Golden Kit Kat Bars Exist Because Japan

November 17, 2015 by Chris Durso

Japan is legendary for their arsenal of Kit Kat flavors. So, it only makes sense that the chocolate candy finally gets gilded.

Japan’s Kit Kat Chocolatory shops will release two versions next month. One is a standard Kit Kat wrapped in edible gold leaf for 2,016 yen (US$16) a piece. The other is an actual 24k solid-gold version, that will be raffled off.

[link, via Technabob]

How To Best Pair Beer With All of That Leftover Halloween Candy

November 2, 2015 by Chris Durso

It’s a few days after Halloween, which means that you probably have enough Kit-Kats, Milky Ways and Skittles in the house to fill a bathtub.

At least you can try to be a little sophisticated with your candy consumption, by pairing it with the correct beer. This handy little chart by the kitchn is here to help.

Like your Snickers, do ya? Then you’ll want to complement its peanut innards with a nutty brown ale. A Dubbel, with its aromatic hints of dried fruit, will go perfectly with those fistfuls of Skittles. Candy Corns? Find new neighbors.

[link]

Snacks and Candy Used To Complete Illustrations

October 23, 2015 by Chris Durso

Artist Nady Nadhira‘s illustrations are cute enough on their own. However, when the drawings are completed with the appropriate snack or candy, they reach new levels of adorbz.

Biscuits become Pac-man, M&Ms are the balloons that lift the Up house, and Oreos are used for eyes — the art is fun to look at and I want to eat it right now. See more below and over at Instagram.