User blog:Asnow89/Guided Tour: Dessert Food Trends

With the emergence of a "foodie" culture, where we live to eat instead of eat to live, the concept of the food trend has materialized. Food trends were once determined by the top chefs and an elite group of critics from magazines such as Bon Appetit and Gourmet. But in this day and age, with the presence of major media sites like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Buzzfeed, the people's voice is heard! This begs the question, which food trend is everyone talking about today?

Keeping afloat with the latest budding food trends can be difficult...but that's what the food and drink wikias are here for! Everyone wants to know what the "next big thing" is going to be, so we interviewed some of the top food and dessert admins to get their insight.

Warning: This article is likely to cause drooling and/or extreme food cravings.

Our first stop on the dessert trends tour is the world of mini. Once upon a time, bigger was better- but not anymore. At first we saw mini cupcakes, mini cookies and mini fruits tarts...but now foodies are shrinking pies, galettes, eclairs, puddings, and more!

Wikia's resident Cupcakes admin Austinandallycupcakes38795, thinks that mini is one of the "it" trends right now. Cupcakes have now been minimized to cake pops, which she says are a great go-to for birthday parties. Beyond birthday parties, mini desserts have taken over weddings. No longer are big wedding cakes a must-have-- cupcake towers, pie pops, and shot glasses of chocolate mousse are the new standard. Nostalgic desserts are something else to keep an eye out for. Hisana456 predicts that chocolate noodles are going to make a splash sometime in the future. Perhaps someone will come up with the next twist on the PB&J or the "grownup" Twinkie. Only time will tell!

In general, WIERDGREENMAN thinks that "anything appealing to the eye" and healthy desserts will dominate future food trends. Want to read more about dessert food trends? Our resident dessert admins give you their best advice on editing and navigating their food wikias! is the founder and admin on the Cupcakes Wikia. She recommends that new users and future admins edit, test out the recipes themselves, and most importantly- have fun with it! New users should start with the classic cupcake flavor pages and then move onto more of the crazier and seasonal cupcakes. is an admin on the Chocolate Wikia. She advises newcomers to start editing the incomplete pages by adding pictures, background information, and recipes. is an admin on the Poptarts Wikia. He recommends that new users start by creating new pages when new flavors come out. Also, adding media like product photos is very helpful on the wikia. For further browsing, you can check out these other great dessert wikias:


 * Desserts Wikia
 * Pies Wikia
 * Candy Wikia
 * Donuts Wikia