THESE FOODS HAVE GONE VIRAL – AND THEY’RE SHIPPING NATIONWIDE
Sometimes, a food stops being just a food. It becomes a viral sensation. And when it does, it becomes a part of the zeitgeist, ricocheting around social media until just about everyone’s seen it – and everyone wants to try it.
When the internet goes crazy for a food – whether it’s a dessert, hot new pastry, or supersized version of a classic – it becomes a hot commodity that folks don’t hesitate to line up around the block for if it means that they can get a good shot for Instagram or TikTok. But some viral foods don’t require making a pilgrimage; in fact, they don’t even require leaving your house! These foods broke the internet, and they’re all shipping to your door on Goldbelly!
Life Raft Treats’ “Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream Bucket
It may look like a bucket of fried chicken, but it’s definitely not! From James Beard Award-nominated chef Cynthia Wong’s Charleston sensation Life Raft Treats, “Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream looks just like a fried chicken drumstick, but it’s actually an intricate ice cream creation, complete with waffle ice cream, a chocolate-covered cookie “bone” and a coating of white chocolate and crushed corn flakes! It’s crispy, crunchy, creamy, salty, sweet, and as fun to eat as it is insanely delicious.
Read More: “Not Fried Chicken Ice Cream” TikTok’s Viral Sensation
Brooklyn Blackout Company’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake
From 1806 to 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was one of the country’s most important military installations, and during World War II New York City announced mandatory neighborhood-wide blackouts to protect it. In honor of the monumental war effort, a beloved Brooklyn-based bakery chain named Ebinger’s created a dark, rich chocolate cake they called the Brooklyn Blackout Cake. The cake exploded in popularity, but sadly Ebinger’s went out of business in the 1970s and the original recipe was lost to history. But Brooklyn’s most iconic cake is back! This is the classic Brooklyn Blackout Cake: a super-chocolatey, delicate cake with rich buttercream icing, with plenty of Brooklyn history.
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Floof Cotton Candy Cakes’s Rainbow Cotton Candy Floof Cake
Founded in 2021 by Hannah Perry as a pandemic-era passion project, Floof Cotton Candy Cakes are a completely new dessert: made by spinning cotton candy in a wide variety of flavors and textures and forming them into a cake, these unique handmade treats can be cut into slices, pulled apart and eaten by individual flavor, or attacked face-first like a kid at the state fair. This is the TikTok famous five-layer Rainbow Floof Cake! The layers include Watermelon, Peach-Mango, Lemonade, Kiwi-Strawberry, and Blue Razz cotton candy, and it comes with a bag of sprinkles for decorating.
Clinton Station Diner’s Giant 7-Pound Zeus Burger
Clinton Station Diner, which opened in the New Jersey town of Clinton back in 2004, is about as classic as a Jersey diner gets, and this Giant 7-Pound Zeus Burger is their signature dish! It starts with a seven-pound patty made with a signature blend of sirloin, ribeye, and skirt steak, cooked to perfection. It’s tucked into a fresh-baked seven-pound bun, and topped with five pounds (32 slices!) of American cheese and over a pound each of lettuce, tomato, and onion.
Nikki J’s Cakes’ Sweet Potato Thang
Nikita Jackson, confectioner and cake master at Absolutely Edible Cakes, had never made a sweet potato pie when a customer requested one in 2003. Instead of refusing the order, she set about experimenting in the kitchen…and came up with the Sweet Potato Thang, a new and modern twist on the sweet potato pie — a creamy and velvety filling with a hint of real vanilla encased in a perfect graham cracker crust. This hit recently went viral with TikTokker Keith Lee stopped by and gave it a 9.1!
PieCaken Bake Shop’s PieCaken
The O.G. dessert mashup, the Red Velvet PieCaken is three desserts in one: Chocolate Pecan Pie, Cherry Swirl Cheesecake, and Red Velvet Cake layered together with cream cheese buttercream and covered in festive red and white sprinkles!
Read More: What is PieCaken?
O’Bagel’s Jumbo Bagel
From a New Jersey small business, this absolute UNIT of a bagel has been featured on Bravo, The Today Show, & Good Morning America. It was also called “The biggest bagel EVER!” by the Food Network!
Flour Shop’s Rainbow Explosion Cake
From the super-creative New York bakery Flour Shop, this Rainbow Explosion Cake has been seen on The Drew Barrymore Show and in Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and at countless celeb birthday parties!
Brique French Toastery’s “The Rock” Brique French Toast
This insanely giant French toast went viral as The Rock’s Insta-famous cheat day meal – and it was invented by his personal chef, just for him!
Carousel Cakes’ Blue Velvet Cake
One of Oprah’s Favorite Things from a third-generation family bakery, this Blue Velvet Cake is everything you love in a red velvet cake, but it’s blue!
Over the Rainbow Cakes’ Chocolate Rainbow Cake
The rainbow craze is still alive and well, and this Chocolate Rainbow Cake proves it!
Spotlight On: Nadia Cakes Woodbury, MN
Nadia Cakes founder Abby Jimenez is a viral sensation! After winning an episode of Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” with her Cheesecake Cupcakes, she found Instagram super-stardom with an outrageous – and outrageously delicious – lineup of sweet treats, including these viral eats:
Unicorn Poop Cupcakes
This magical Unicorn Poop cupcake only hits the in-store bakery menu once a year on April Fool’s Day, but it’s available for shipping year round. It’s a rainbow vanilla bean cake topped with vanilla icing grass and a fondant rainbow unicorn poopie.
Vageode® Cake
What was intended to be a geode rock vanilla cake with pink buttercream frosting and a strip of rock candy turned into a media sensation in January 2018 when people saw, well, something else, and the Vageode Cake was born!
Cheeseburger Whoopie Pies
These vanilla whoopie pies are filled with chocolate and vanilla buttercream. They may look just like burgers, but they’re definitely not!
Even more of America’s trendiest foods are shipping nationwide!
