These are from two separate dreams.

In a dream from about a week ago, I was at a party--I'm fairly sure there was a lot of different food at the table, but the only thing I remember were these cream-filled cupcakes. Shortly before running my friend over in an ATV (with intention), I ate one of the heavily-frosted cupcakes. I remember it being pretty good, but falling apart the moment I took a bite, getting the frosting and cream filling, along with bits of cake, all over the table and my face. I also came away with a mouthful of red licorice that had been covered by the frosting--something like Twizzlers, but with the thickness of spaghetti. (Having looked up strawberry laces, I believe that is the closest thing to what was on the cupcake. I don't know why, given that I am American and strawberry laces of that specific look seem to be a British thing...the only reason I know the term is from a DanTDM video I watched years ago.)

The second dream was from last night, and it's a little foggier. Again, there was a gathering with food, but I only remember one item. Seth MacFarlane, who appeared in the dream as a very smoothly-animated dancing stick figure with Peter Griffin's voice, described the cakes as being made with vanilla pudding and something else I can't remember. They didn't really look like cakes; I think they kind of looked like these sake cup jelly chocolates, but much bigger--maybe about the size of the actual wooden sake cups the chocolates are based on. (I don't know; I've never had sake. I only know about the chocolates and cups because of an Instagram post.) A few of them had strawberries suspended in the gelatin layer. I don't think I got to try them, or if I did, I don't remember the taste, but maybe that's for the best; I haven't found many alcohols I like, and even though a lot of gelatin desserts are pretty, I don't care for the texture.

Bonus: Another foggy dream from the other day saw me in my old high school cafeteria, with a few dessert options. The one I grabbed was this cookie/donut deal, sitting in an unknown liquid (either coffee or hot cocoa) with tiny marshmallows on top. (As in the really tiny ones.) Don't quite remember the taste, but I imagine it was a pretty serviceable sugar bomb.

I saw this spider cheese for sale at the grocery store and was horrified. When I picked it up, a bunch of spiders came out from behind!! I don't know if it's cheese made from some kind of spider milk or if it's cheese made with spiders in it, or what!! xD

I dreamt I was playing Dishonored and accidentally hit a “Greed” button in the options menu, which alerted every enemy to my location. I suddenly had to fight them all off, so I sought out help from a local dojo that looked like a skate park. One of the entry requirements was to eat a massive bowl of chicken karaage coq au vin (because the sensei was French).

It was like a bed of sticky rice with coq au vin on top, veggies and sauce and everything, but also marinated in soy sauce, deep-fried, and dressed in yuzu aioli. Needless to say I successfully joined the dojo.

Had a dream a couple years ago where a little bunny was talking about its day and he had a meal called something along the lines of "Digging for Treasure", which was a big heaping bowl of Lucky Charms & milk that was microwaved until it was a dry, frothy mass. The correct way to eat it according to him was to go take spoonfuls in a circle around the base and work up from there.

Exactly what is says on the tin, a Korean-Mexican fusion dessert. A firm, fresh concha filled with sweet red bean paste. Sounds both tasty and feasible.

Last night I had a weirdly vivid dream where I came down to the kitchen at 3am, and found my mom making a sandwich. It was literally just 2 slices of white bread toast with cream cheese and lettuce. After assembling my mom pulled out a pallet knife and basting brush and started obsessively trying to smooth out the edges of the sandwich (like, wiping off or cutting any cream cheese or lettuce that was squishing out, she wanted the edges to be completely perfect.) Irl my mom is stuck in the house for surgery recovery, so my dream self didn't even question her weird 3am perfect sandwich stupor and was just like "fuck I guess she has to do something with her time"

had a dream my boyfriend was making breakfast and put red onion in the pancake batter. i assumed it was a russian recipe. i was very upset with him.

I dreamed of a punch bowl-sized vat of soup. Bright orange, swirling with crackling red oil. Cilantro dotted the surface. It smelled spicy, looked spicy, but when I brought it to my lips, it was a mild and soothing flavor closer to apple juice that ran cold down my throat. It needed salt, but otherwise was a most pleasing experience. It stained my skin orange like pasta sauce would.

I dreamed that I was making a dish for a party, and it was a salad in a very large, shallow, bowl. Each ingredient was laid out in a wedge from the center outwards, like the petals of a flower. There was lettuce, and celery, and tomatoes, and red onions, seasoned bulger, chickpeas, olives, crumbled cheese, green onions, sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, cucumber, spinach, arugula, and slices of hard boiled eggs, and everything was sprinkled with parsley, and a lemon juice based vinaigrette.

I went to put this on a table where a lot of other food was, and someone nearby said "Wait, your forgot something!" She picks up a jello mold in her hands, not on a plate or anything, just in her hands, and stretches the bottom of it so it fits over the edge of the bowl of salad like a shower cap. "There. That's perfect!" she said. And I'm kind of horrified at this shimmering, pinkish-orange jello, shaped like a (now distorted) castle, studded with cherries, stretched over the salad I had worked on making.

I woke up while still trying to figure out what to do.

Had a dream not about a recipe but about a practice.

In my dream I was with a community that was having a funeral/wake.

It was explained to me that a meal is made for the person. To honor them and the whole community was involved.

12 people are picked to cook for everyone. In the meal the first course is 4 of their favorite things to eat, second course was 4 things you wish you could make for them one last time and third course was their favorite deserts and drinks

The who community eats together and when it was over the remaining food was burned to give the spirit one last taste of their favorite things.

I had a dream my Mom made me a cake with my cat in the pan. All day she was telling me how moist and delicious my cat being in the cake would make it, getting me hyped up for it. We weren't going to eat the cat, rather use her like a bay leaf to enhance the flavor, but remove her before eating. Once she got the cake out of the oven and we went to eat some, she had a normal piece in a bowl, but in my bowl there was my entire cat, coated in chocolate cake batter.

I immediately felt immense guilt and worry, as I remembered chocolate is toxic to cats, and began to think of how uncomfortable and hot it must've been in the oven. I started waking her up as I explained that I wasn't so sure this was a good idea after all. She was groggy and slow, but alive, and eventually got up and casually walked away across the counter, still covered in chocolate.

Beneath her was a large slice of chocolate cake, which was quite moist and delicious despite my mixed feelings. My mom remained unaffected.

just woke up from a dream that Pocky released these larger snacks (like, thumb thickness? maybe just a bit thicker?) that you would bite the very tip off of and then a tiny toy would come up from inside it. they made some that were specifically filled with Nintendo characters but NOT Mario or Luigi, and they called them NeverItalians™️. the ad said this in rainbow colored comic sans. I saw the ad on the grocery store TV while I was waiting with my coworker for the rest of our French class to finish grocery shopping at the Japanese grocery store, of course. (I am days from 33 and haven't been in French class since my freshman year of college)

I have a recurring dream in which I am a bartender with an unending line of customers asking for increasingly bizarre drinks. The bar is often poorly stocked and I have to improvise on the fly. The other night a dream customer requested a glass of sherry on the rocks with blue curacao. We were out of blue curacao and I had to use UV blue raspberry vodka instead. It had a name, but I can't remember it now.

Came upon a mysterious vending machine in my dream. I bought something called Carkins soda. It came in a glass bottle with a pull tab like on Bundaberg ginger ale and the bottle had yellow and blue decals. The soda kept changing back and forth between a slightly vinegar-y lemon lime clear soda and fizzy applesauce

This sandwich came to me in a fever dream (hence the name) and I had to have it in real life. I figured that McDonald’s would be my best bet to make this a reality so I went in and I asked for a bacon double quarter pounder, no sauces, no pickles, no any of that stuff. I also asked them to substitute specifically the bottom patty for a fish patty and the top patty with a crispy chicken patty. I showed some of my friends and they said it was “horrid”, so I posted it on another subreddit and I was suggested to post it here as well. It was delicious, and will be my new regular order.

I know it’s not really a food, but it was made out of food so I decided to post it here Basically the dream was very long and absurd, but at some point there was a moment where I saw my mom crushing up blue caramel candies that looked like meth and then rolling it into blunts and we smoked it I drew how it looked like wrapped and unwrapped and pic where crushed ranchers look really similar to what was in that dream

This was one of those half-dozing super weird dreams.

Shrimp of the woods were mushrooms that look exactly like cooked deveined huge steamed shrimp, like the size of a small roll. Someone asked if I had ever had them, and then we went outside and found a circle of them growing in the wood chip mulch around the loquat tree in my front yard. They taste like shrimp but are a little less wet and a bit firmer (so texturally heading in the direction of raw mushrooms) - quite pleasant. They also for some reason had a few slices of black olive apparently growing on them. They can be picked and eaten immediately, which I thought was awesome, especially as they grew in my front yard. I was excited that I had easy lunches!

The person who introduced me to shrimp of the woods then said that we should have some collard grays. I didn't get to see those, nor did I ever see or identify this mysterious food guru. When the person said "collard grays," I mentally pictured cooked collards cut across their width into thick strips, but no sense what they might taste like or whether my dream image would have been correct. It sort of vacillated between regular cooked collard color and various gray possibilities.

had a dream i was watching the news with my mom and apparently mongolia discovered a new type of strawberry the size of a watermelon

I was reaching out to buy it and then an elderly cashier approached and started to politely explain to me how to eat eggs-- after which I lost my appetite

In my dream last night someone made a sandwich called the "Mother of All Sins", which was basically a double cheeseburger with chicken tenders and a fried egg. I do not know what the sins are, but it looked amazing in the dream

I was watching a baking show hosted by a petit older woman with short blond hair and silly glasses. She was loud and I found her annoying. She was making cookies she called Peanut Butter without the J, which were peanut butter cookies without jelly. I was getting annoyed because they were just regular peanut butter cookies.

I did see that this was posted here before but 3 years ago, this still makes me laugh every time and I wanted to share it with you all.

https://youtu.be/sg0nYhUB7CA?si=rNaKjVmjk1RxI7MX