It’s common knowledge that we tend to eat with our eyes first. Aesthetically unpleasing dishes rarely make it off the plate and into our mouths. Lucky for us, bevies of designers/art directors/artists/generally creative people have been fusing their talents with food to produce some insanely cool looking eats. Even luckier for us, everything on the following list is, in fact, edible. You can look at your pretty cake and eat it too.

Pantone x Food
The Pantone color matching system is part of every designer’s essential toolbox.  Some creative designers have taking matching to a whole different level. Graphic designer and illustrator David Schwen puts together complementary food pairings such as eggs and bacon, instead of color pairings, in this project he did on Instagram. Emilie Guelpa, a French art director, created a series of Pantone tarts for the food magazine Fricote. She even managed to get them all coded to the exact pantone color.

Chocolate That is Literally Out of This World
The chocolate boutique inside the Righa Royal Hotel in Japan, L’éclat, has created incredibly beautiful chocolate replicas of the planets in our solar system. Venus tastes like lemon cream, Earth tastes like cacao, and just in case you were wondering, Uranus tastes of milk tea. If you purchase the entire set, they will apparently throw the sun in for free.

I Can’t Believe It Is Butter
Toast is definitely a blank canvas for a variety of spreads, but none match the creativity of this. The Japanese artist Shoko Mansunaga uses only edible elements and all natural food colorings to masterfully craft butter spreads into abstract designs on toast. That’s a breakfast definitely worth waking up for.

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