Building a city out of cookies is not a new idea. In fact, many people have done it before, be it by stacking cookies to imitate the city, or by simply making a cake that is in the shape of a building. This makes a great analogy between cooking and architecture, where both can be seen as lofty art or simply as a humble craft.



I was talking to a friend who's working on some construction projects when this came to mind. When he talks about materials related to construct a building, I think of the juxtaposition from a food perspective. And a simple one that I came up with was cookies.


These are like the bricks/cement

The raw ingredients used to make cookies can be deemed similar to the materials used to build buildings. We have flour as the cement that is known as the principle structure builder. We use eggs to glue the base. We have salt to make the cookies harder and steadier. We have sugar to act as a tenderizing agent by absorbing water. Not only that, when sugar caramelizes with heat, it provides baked cookies with a pleasing color and aroma. We also have baking powder that helps the dough rise at a faster and more consistent rate. Working together, these ingredients function to form the final structure of the baked good. It won’t be as strong as building materials, but at the same time it’s similar.


A cluster of buildings

Artcookietecture, as I prefer to call it, is just a simple idea on the relationship between food and design. It's fun to see that a basic thing like food can resemble something like architecture.


I'm sure you guys can guess this famous building

We might build a proper city using cookies when we have more time to do it on a much bigger scale. Anyone interested to build a mini Kuala Lumpur from scratch?


It's fun to build with cookies!