In the New York Times last summer, Ligaya Mishan wrote about trompe l’oeil as it pertained to cakes, which have been blurring the lines between real and cake for a while: “Maybe nothing is real maybe everything is a joke. “Stupak is pursuing a grown-up’s version of that childhood wonderment: He’s making diners experience something new and surprising all over again,” he wrote. Sutton touches on this idea in a 2017 review of the restaurant Empellon, which offered a fake avocado dessert.
There’s something undeniably fun about food that looks like other food. The ease of obtaining a corn-shaped mold online means a whole world of faux corn is possible - outside the edible realm, corn candles have been making the rounds for a while, and there’s always the comically large corn stool.
On Instagram, you’ll find cornbread topped with hyper-perfect corn-shaped buttercream molded-corn chocolate shells filled with corn ice cream a corn-stuffed wagashi and a loaf of sourdough, both shaped and scored to look like corn with the husk on. The composition resembles a real, squared-off corn cob from above, but an ice cream sandwich from the side. But this summer, the bakery posted on Instagram that it finally found the right chocolate to perfect its existing corn dessert: Atop layers of sable, frangipane, and white chocolate chantilly is a layer of sweet corn. Everyone is making corn content right now, but the pastry chefs making fake corn desserts got there first.Ī post shared by Burrow Kurokawa’s Burrow, a Japanese bakery in Brooklyn, has long made “otherworldly cakes and cookies that baffle pastry chefs,” as Bon Appétit wrote in 2018. Of course, corn is currently having its moment, even more than in previous summers: After an interview of a child sharing his love of corn went viral on TikTok this month, a remix of that interview has become ubiquitous, having been viewed over 57.5 million times and used in over 320,000 videos. What seemed like a one-off fascination has shot to niche trend status this summer as more bakers play with desserts that look like corn, but aren’t. Pale white, the jelly corn looked like Bunnicula had gotten ahold of one of summer’s best ears, while a pastel purple version looked as though it had been grown on another planet. The dessert hinted at trompe l’oeil - illusions that trick the eye - while also finding footing in the uncanny valley.
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