Gingerbready for action, Captain!

Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise could only dream of a command this sweet, this spicy, this crunchy and delicious.

Blackmarket Bakery in Costa Mesa, CA not only dreamed of a gingerbread Enterprise, they made it a reality for a shop display, complete with icing lights and a candy-cane tractor beam.

Ever since the U.S.S. Enterprise crash-landed in an especially gripping Star Trek: Generations episode, fans have realized it’s not easy keeping such a vast vessel space-borne. Reddit user ejustice has used the creative power of gingerbread to picture a similar calamity in baked-good 3D. I like to think this is just the Enterprise heading into the clouds to evade cookie-craving Klingons!

Crop critters

Fruit and veggies play an important part in everyone’s diet. But they’re usually simply sliced up and stuck on a plate. How boring! This is where food artists get creative. How much funner is it to eat a banana that looks like an octopus? So much funner!

A kiwi koala—too cute to crunch?

Here’s how a cucumber orca breaks the surface of a dinner plate.

A melon owl keeps watch with grapes  eyes peeled for anyone looking for fruit for dessert.

And “snow peas, please” is all you need to say about this fresh garden dragonfly!

Food flags

This year, the Sydney International Food Festival featured national flags using foods each country is commonly associated with. Traveling is delicious when taste buds are tourists!

Italy: basil, pasta, and tomatoes

India: curry chicken, rice, cheera thoran, and papadum wafer

Lebanon: tomatoes, pita bread, and parsley

Greece: olives and feta cheese

Great Britain: scone, cream, and jam

And the USA? Hot dogs, ketchup, and mustard, of course!