Those TikTok Food Crazes

 Can one app dictate what people eat? Yes if it's Tiktok. It's responsible for all sorts of fads, trends and crazes regarding food.Do people follow them? Yes!

It seems everyone is on this app. It's responsible for some of the strangest food crazes lately that everyone is passionately following.One that is super popular now is the pickle sandwich one coming out of New York's Long Island. Back in January a deli called Seven Brothers Gourmet Food market started to sell subs that were not based on bread but pickles!!!! The sandwiches didn't;t blow up until May when a popular food blogger posted her review back in May. She posted a few more videos regarding her love for them and people were curious about this twist on the classic hero. Now a New Jersey deli Elsie's Sub Shop in Red Bank has created their version of this tangy bite.It can be made at home with halving a fat dill pickle , scooping out the guts (save these for snacking or salads) and then filling it with your favorite cold cuts. Seven Birthers has a turkey, cheese and bacon one that people are going mad for. There are two and three hour waits , with lines heading out of the deli and down the block.

What are other TikTok trends? This new Summerween is one. This is where Halloween is stretched out into four days from July 7th to the 11th and all sorts of fun Halloween foods are melded with summer classics. There are TikTok videos that show how to make Jack o lanterns out of watermelons and pineapples with the fruits' insides being turned into fun cocktails and mocktails. Then there's the Jack o lanterns burgers where a pumpkin face is cut out on  a slice of cheese and then placed on a sizzling on the grill burgers. They melt over the meat so the patties sort of look like decorations. Another fun Halloween treat, mummy dogs , hot dogs wrapped in dough strips also were big on Tiktok recently. Then there 's vampire ice, basically shaved ice with cranberry or cherry juice and bloody s'mores where the treats ooze cherry juice.Tiktok has also been respomsible for the Dalgona coffee craze which had coffee lovers whipping their brew into dark brown mousselike peaks and create a zingy French cake using yogurt. It also had followers putting cottage cheese in everything too.

Tiktok is one of the most influential apps in recent history. It really guides people around the world to different food trends.What will the latest trends be? Find out on Tiktok.

Chip City Cookies

 There are so many cookie companie s out there yet Chip City stands out. Why? Their cookies ar ethese huge mounds of goodness, bigger than the average round! Plus they come in all sorts of unusual and traditional flavors.

I discoivered them today in Ridgewood ,New Jersey, Any bakery featuring cookies is always worth investigating.It was a cheery place with the lure of cookies - GIANT ones 

They offered five or four choices.I wen with the safest. Chocolate chip and confetti

These are huge mounds of cookies. Chip City also had the brookie, a brownie cookie , hybrid and caramel apple cider doughnut. Their menus change weekly. You could walk into any of their Long Island, Manhattan and New Jersey stores and try a Key Lime one ,a giant cookie filled with Key lime pie filling or a peanut butter chocolate one. There are eleven flavors on rotation,

How do they taste? An odd mox of crunchy outer shell with a chewy cookie inside. They were interesting  and the chocolate chip had a good amount of chips on. The confetti one was more sugary than buttery.  Keep in mind that they are expensive. Each cookie costs a whopping five bucks!

If you like giant cookies then try Chip City ones. They're big enough for two or three people to enjoy. Try their many flavors , They're a bog cookie with a big taste

Happiness Is A Hahn's Crumbcake

Nothing beats a good old fashioned crumb cake. There's something about the marriage of buttery ,crunchy crumbs and a yeasty not so sweet cake.Hahn's Crumb Cakes of ,Farmingdale New York fills that need.This Long Island bakery is known for their delicious coffee cakes.They offer the traditional along with different variations.Best of all, crumb lovers ,they even sell a bucket of just crumbs.What bakery does that? Hahn's is located in Farmingdale, smack in the center of New York"s Long Island.It's a great stop not just for locals but for those going to and coming from the island's posh South Fork.It was started thirty years ago by Regina Hahn.She not only bakes crumb cakes but also brownies and a mocha cappuccino cake.As for the crumb cakes, Ms Hahn has given different twists to the classic cake.There are fruit kinds, with raspberry and apple, along with a chocolate one.Anyone of these would be great ending any holiday dinner or party, whether at home or at the office.The bakery goes one step further and offers a bucket, literally a small paint can, filled with rock sized crumbs.This alone would make a neat birthday or holiday gift for the extreme crumb cake lover.There is also the variety pack that has the traditional, raspberry and chocolate packaged together. I sampled the variety pack and now am a fan for life.Hahn's has created the perfect crumb cake.There is a perfect ratio of base to topping.The cake itself is a wonderful, moist, buttery yeasty kind that's not too sweet.The crumb topping is a nice mix of cinnamon and butter that doesn't over power the cake.The raspberry kind is laced with swirls of the fruit, but again, the raspberry is not overpowering.There's only a taste of it that meshes well with the other ingredients.Hahn's chocolate is the best.It's a dense, dark cocoa ,not cloying as most chocolate cakes are.The topping is the same as for the others,and it works here too.Of course I also got the bucket of crumbs.They"re great snacks ,bursting with nothing but cinnamon and butter.These would be great on plain vanilla ice cream for a different kind of dessert.They would even make a neat crumb parfait ,layering them with hot caramel sauce and ice cream. Hahn's is the perfect place for finding the best crumb cake.They are moist and flavorful, harking back to those home baked kind we all grew up loving.Try their classic ,fruit or chocolate for a true treat.