Food Origami

Above are two examples of origami boxes I have made using rice paper. Rice paper is a thin, edible paper which has little taste and is used in different Asian food, sweets and cake decorating. It can be printed on or coloured so, like when using traditional coloured origami papers, the same combinations of colours could also be achieved. It's incredibly susceptible to liquids so as soon as someone were to put it into their mouth it would dissolve leaving only the taste of the centre. 

Rice paper is also used for the shells of flying saucers which are then filled with sherbet, this has made me look at ways in which to package food and sweets using the rice paper as an edible container. I like how the flying saucers are reminiscent of childhood and have been made for decades and are still in production so my sweets could appeal to people of all ages with a sweet tooth. I'd like to create a box which could possibly contain layers of sweets, so it would start quite large and have a gap in between each layer for a different type of sweet, making the journey of discovering new flavours and textures more exciting and a surprise each time. 

As well as using the rice paper as a container for food, I have also been looking at pastry and making pre-made pastry cases which someone could buy and then fill with their own ingredients. I would have to either use an origami method made from one piece of pastry to prevent the filling for escaping or simply fill in any gaps with excess. The cases could provide a more interesting alternative to the traditional case and make baking more of a talking point when it was being served up. I like the idea of people being able to fill the pastry with whatever they want instead of it being determined for them and so that they could see how the case was made.