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Edible Book Day 2025 is Live and BAM! We're serving up another fun year of hot eats and cool treats! Get on in to the kitchen and rustle up an Edible Book that would make the Professor weep (Tears of Joy, no doubt!)There are only two rules:
1
Its gotta be vaguely a book. We've had scrolls and triptychs and even further beyond. We're not purists, so dont be afraid to stray from the guidlines set down in ANSI/NISO Z39.78-2000. If it could conceivable convey information (although writing is not necessary) its a book to us!
2
You gotta take a bite! Show off your hard work with some nice photos, and prove to all of us its edible enough to take a little munch out of it, even if that bite ends up in the trash.
Looking hard in the mirror for that last statement. Thats it! Its a fun little spring romp through the kitchen to make your roommates and family question your life choices! and maybe get in on the fun themselves!
This Year’s Offerings!
The Lembas Book
My first stab at an edible book, and a lot of fun! Like the Elves' bread, stories feed the will and give strength to endure. This contains several of my favorite LotR quotes, written in Elvish script on tortillas with cake decorating markers, then bound with strips of twizzlers. I chose green spinach tortillas for the cover since it gave the book the look of a packet of lembas wrapped in leaves.
DeeHellcat
Book Suzette
a simple crêpes book... ON FIRE 2 colours for batter to create the turnable pages with text cut from carrots on one page and a decorated case. All of that sprinkled with a bit of sugar and deliciously drenched in Grand Marnier to flambé
Zhalfirin
My Cabbages!
Made out of cabbage, celery strings, and food coloring. I would not recommend trying to bite through 5 layers of cabbage at once.
anonymous
Slice, Spritz, and Write!
Perfect bound rice paper with nori covers, text is from "On the Recommendation That American Adults Consume No More Than One-Quarter Cup of Rice, Twice a Week" by Adrienne Su and rendered in balsamic glaze (which turns out does not dry, even when you try to dust it with corn starch). The rice paper instructions say "Dip, Wrap, and Roll!" I did none of these things to the poor paper and owe it to the rest of the pack to make it into spring rolls now.
Pandamomentum
Lavash and Nori
ink did not show up on the nori but still!
Silent Sun Press
Scroll of the wind's whispers
Line from Tally Hall - Hymn for a scarecrow rendered in fresh pasta in 3 colours in a scroll
Moonlovingvampire
Ethos of Edible Book Day (and all creative endeavors)
Fresh pasta in two colours, rolled into a scroll. Line from Spring and a Storm by Tally Hall
Moonlovingvampire
Noodle
A Book Made Entirely of Noodles, by Noodle
Noodle Book Press
Tortilla Zine
A tortilla zine about how to make a tortilla zine.
ZINE paper = tortilla ink = vodka + ... food color gel E.B.D. '25
I used the one-page zine method to fold a rectangle of tortilla and it was surprisingly effective (and thick)!
Michelle
Cocoa NIBbles
11 pages filled with 5 different ganaches!
anonymous
Open Face Book Cookie
Baking and icing is harder than it looks, but sharing makes the labor worth while.
six
Rainbow Sketchbook
This was so much more difficult than I anticipated haha. But fun!
Avery
Science Kitchen (my laser doesnt do prepositions apparently)
Really channeled my inner James Acaster with this one.
But no soggy bottoms! *aaand* its the best tasting edible book ive made yet. also the least bookish of edible books so far, but listen, homemade peach fruit leather doesnt engrave AT ALL like homemade sour strawberry fruit leather, and choices had to be made. There is a point to be made that the marshmallow fluff is extremely like eating paste which swings the needle back to book territory i think. If you had been able to read the inside, you would have been very impressed with "Science in the Kitchen", the meanderings of one Mrs. E.E. Kelogg, A.M. and her wonderful ideas about feeding old people bland diets. and young people bland diets. you could have also learned that "oysters, raw" take 35 minutes longer to digest than "oysters, stewed". truly a fascinating book.
Lark
Cuneiform Cookie
A brown sugar cookie dough with cinnamon and orange extract/zest. The cuneiform is the beginning of one of the Gilgamesh tablets, referenced from an illustration in Stephen Langdon's translation of the tablets.
CMDonovann
Weaving & bookarts
Structural integrity 7/10 would have been higher if I’d been able to leave it to dry fully
Taste 10/10 only managed half in one sitting but fulfilled an unknown childhood dream to eat a packet of these in one bite. Incredibly satisfying
Ease of construction:
- “paper” 9/10 bit fiddly and took a while but otherwise fine
- “sewing” 6/10 very fiddly, managed only with the aid of a slotted spatula
I also wish to note that when I was in secondary school we called these sweets gay bacon 🏳️🌈
Lottie
Liked what you saw?
even if you didn’t—
click on over here and VOTE in this year’s contest!
voting is open all year and closes April 1st 2026
(that’ll be a Wednesday)
Lets also congratulate last year's winners
Most "Book" like Book - Lark
Most "Bite-able" Book - Zhalfirin [Titles are overrated]
Most Innovative book materials/construction - Noodle
In the Build Your Ideal Menu categories,
An Appetizer - Zhalfirin [Pancake Scroll]
A Hearty Main - Velvetwastaken
And for Dessert - Zhalfirin [Titles are overrated]
all of who will receive a wicked sweet cutting board, in a wild miss-use of Lark’s food etching machine
the knife is just for scale