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Suck on Earth, or give Uranus a lick with Planet Lollipops. The hard candy suckers are brought to us by Vintage Confections, are made to order in flavors of your choosing, and come in a set of 10 — including the Sun and the former planet Pluto.
[Etsy, via Hi Consumption]
Ice cream planets and a sorbet sun accompany a recent essay by food writer Alan Richman in GQ Magazine. In what is surely one of the most educated and heartfelt essays on the subject of ice cream — Richman let’s us in on the best ice cream in the United States, knocks Ben & Jerry’s, and tells us why ice cream helps tell the difference between boys and girls. And did we mention that they made ice cream look like planets?
Photo by Levi Brown, styled by Victoria Granof. Check out the full article here.
Chocolate just got heavenlier, and I might have just made up a word. Created by L’éclat, the chocolate boutique of the Righa Royal Hotel Japan, every planet in our solar system gets a flavor — so you’ll no longer have to wonder what Uranus tastes like.
Actually, the Chocolate Planet flavors are as follows; Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum raisin), Uranus (milk tea) and Neptune (cappuccino).
[link,via My Modern Met]
Have you ever noticed the way well-worn frying pans start to look like planets? No? Well photographer Christopher Jonassen has, and he’s created his own tiny universe of celestial cooking gear.