OREvery December, Pinterest reveals the trends destined to take off the following year, based on what is popular on the platform. And it’s not just guesswork: Over the past five years, 80% of our trend predictions have come true. Here are the culinary trends that will most likely take hold in 2025.
Cherry color and surrealism, the food trends of 2025 according to Pinterest Predicts
The watchword seems to be experimentation, in a decidedly playful way. Whether dining out or preparing recipes at home, people are looking to food for escape and nothing will be too extravagant.
There will be strong influences from the fashion, beauty and design industries. See the entry Cherry Coded: the cherry colour it will be the fruit of 2025 for Gen Z and Millennials who will explore all its potential, from make-up to cocktails to desserts.
Another crossover trend is that of surreal Soirées, in which fantastic table arrangements will see “cake flower bouquets” and “strawberry centerpieces” appear at center stage. And the opulent and ultra-feminine aesthetics of the eighteenth century will also come back into fashion, especially for cake decoration.
Pickles everywhere and crazy cakes, green light for imagination and experimentation
Among the ingredient-focused trends, they will be all the rage the Versatile Pickles (Pickle). Some may remember Dua Lipa adding pickle juice to her Diet Coke to give it a spicy twist: well, she started a trend. From desserts to spicy cocktails, dips to muffins, chips to popsicles, Gen Xers and millennials will incorporate the ingredient of the moment everywhere. Searches for “pickle fries,” “fried pickle dip” and “pickle de gallo” are all on the rise. Cocktail enthusiasts are also creating pickled margaritas by balancing sweet, salty and sour. But there will also be room for “pickle cakes”.
Speaking of cakes, it’s time to say goodbye to perfect cakes. Cake decorating is expected to take a chaotic turn. This trend could recall that of “hear me out cakes”, created to reveal unspeakable crushes. That is, sweets on which to plant flags with the face of a famous character, preferably imaginary or even animated, on whom you have had a crush. And, of course, the cringier the crush the more fun it is.
According to Pinterest Predicts, Matte Cakes (or Chaos Cake) will be the trend in 2025
Chaos Cakes, or Crazy Cakes will allow you to give vent to your most daring pastry chef inventiveness, with extravagant desserts in the shape of a shrimp, a flowering garden, a withered bouquet. Is it mouse-shaped? Also.
Newstalgia, the classic returns, revised
Foods and drinks that were fashionable in the past will undergo a real rediscovery: Newstalgia will take over, pushing to reinvent the super classics with a modern touch. For example? The US “soda float” is being revisited by Gen Z and Millennials with bold recipes that combine ice cream, cream or fruit floats in soda or beer. A trend as bold as it is delicious.
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