YC Crew Gets Deliciously Creative with Food Art

Participants and volunteers are using their culinary creativity at YC’s new Food Art program this winter! During this program, the YC crew makes art projects that look like food and also creates edible art projects.

Each week has a food theme, and the first week’s theme is the YC Café! Participants and volunteers entered the YC café as ambient music music played. That’s when our “head barista,” Arts Manager Megan Smith, gave instructions for the first project. Program attendees made hot cocoa, but not the kind you want to drink! This hot cocoa is for decoration only (or maybe to be used for pranking friends and family!) Participants and volunteers used piping to top mugs with spackle as whipped cream, then painted on puffy paint hot fudge, grated brown chalk to be chocolate shavings, and used broken crayon pieces of all colors as sprinkles!

After participants finished their projects, they were awarded the opportunity to make REAL hot cocoa. First, participants and volunteers decorated paper cups and came up with drink names to add to the YC Café menu board. Drink names ranged from “Caramel Frappe Cocoa” to “The Blue and Red Monster” to “Mario Kart & Cappy Special.” Finally, they could make their hot cocoa with toppings ranging from cocoa powder, vanilla, cinnamon, sprinkles, peppermint, and marshmallows.

All in all, participants and volunteers had a WOO-nderful time and are looking forward to future food art sessions!