Eat Your Way Out of This Cotton Candy House

February 15, 2013 // 6:00 am

From the maker of mannequin nutcrackers comes the sweet, fluffy, carnival-like wonder of this cotton candy house. This latest installment from artist Jennifer Rubell has everyone’s mouths watering, using nearly 1,800 cones of the pink clouds as insulation, the structure is sure to…

Best Valentine’s Gift EVER: Boyfriend Transforms Ice Dispenser into Candy Dispenser

February 14, 2013 // 6:17 pm

Like many already great things (yogurt, grapes, Thin Mint cookies), candy, especially chocolate candy, is even better frozen. But it can be difficult to know just when you’ll want to nom on some frozen Hershey’s kisses. What if it’s, like, midnight and you want some frozen chocolate right now,…

M&M’s Darwinism: Why the Blue Ones Are Inferior

February 11, 2013 // 2:45 pm

I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one to sort my M&Ms into piles according to color (candy segregation is not cool, folks) when I was younger, working backwards from orange to green so I could save my favorite for last. Of course, none of this had any real…

Creepy/Awesome Valentine’s Gift Idea: Your Head on a PEZ Dispenser

February 3, 2013 // 9:00 am

Yes, you read correctly. Hot Pop Factory insists that it’s not strange and terrifying to eat sugar pills from your own plastic neck. Using X-Box Kinect motion sensors to scan your cranium and mold you into a candy dispenser that roughly resembles a soap carving of the…

This Ear Wax Candy is ‘Picked Fresh,’ Q-Tip Not Included

January 30, 2013 // 3:04 pm

The best part amount these lemony morsels resembling ear wax is the accompanying description:

Picked fresh from the inner recesses of a large, crusty ear, these chewy gummy morsels feature a delicious lemon flavor. Nifty ear graphic packets seal in quality!

Oh fabulous! It’s hard to get fresh, high-quality…

So Bacon Pixie Sticks are a Thing

December 15, 2012 // 2:04 pm

What’s pointy, delicious and completely magical? If you said a unicorn horn cookie, you wouldn’t be wrong. If you were thinking something else, though, you probably would be, ya perv. But in all seriousness, what I’m thinking of has a million times more power, magic and delicious meaty flavor…

This Edible Lamp is Deliciously Illuminating

November 30, 2012 // 6:09 pm

No trickery involved here, folks. YOU ACTUALLY CAN EAT THIS LAMP! Huh, that honestly sounded a lot more appealing in my head. Whatever, the point remains that this lamp is almost 100% edible. You just have to remove all of the electrical components and soak it in clean water…

Minty Underpants, Butter and Thumb-Flavored Lollipops

November 29, 2012 // 4:09 pm

Archie McPhee is the go-to place for campy confections, toys, accessories and all things bacon. They recently came out with the perfect stocking stuffers: one-of-a-kind lollipops shaped as different objects, each complete with their own theme, name and flavor. Adding to their collection of novelty lollipops is the Underpants…