The rise of cloud bread! Fluffy loaves dyed in candy colours is the latest photogenic food trend to sweep TikTok and Instagram
- Instagram and TikTok feeds have been taken over with colourful cloud bread
- Recipe involves whipping up egg whites, sugar and cornflour and baking it
- Users also add food colouring to make it extremely colourful and photo-friendly
When lockdown started five months ago, thousands of Brits discovered a new love for home cooking, whipping up banana bread, sourdough, dalgona coffee and even dessert burgers.
Instagram feeds were flooded with picturesque desserts, snacks and meals, with flour selling out across the country.
And now the latest trend to takeover Instagram and TikTok is cloud bread, with millions of people across the world whipping up the simple, very colourful, four-ingredient recipe.
Instagram feeds were flooded with picturesque desserts, snacks and meals, with flour selling out across the country, with the latest trend colour cloud bread made in a simple recipe. Pcitured: An Instagram users attempt at the fluffy dessert

Soflo Fooodie, a Florida-based Instagram account made several versions of the dish, including rainbow ‘cotton candy’ version, a blue version with oreos and even a savoury version. Pictured the blue oreo version

Pictured: Soflo Foodie’s ‘cotton candy’ version o the dish, made with several food coloruings and whisked up eggs
The trend appeared to be started by LA user Anaa, who shared a video on July 27 where she whipped up egg whites, sugar and cornstarch into a meringue-like texture before baking it.
She then removes it from the oven to reveal a springy, cake-like texture.
Abigail Hwang-Nable, from Hong Kong, made the recipe with a twist, by adding blue food colouring making it very Instagram friendly.
Her TikTok now has more than 23 million views, with many more recreating the recipe with food colouring.
Soflo Fooodie, a Florida-based Instagram account made several versions of the dish, including rainbow ‘cotton candy’ version, a blue version with oreos and even a savoury version.
While you really only need three ingredients to make the basic recipe, many have put their own twists adding almond slices, sprinkles, strawberries and flavour extract.
It’s not to be confused with keto cloud bread, a recipe popular with people on the low-card diet which involves mixing cream cheese and eggs together as substitute for bread.

While you really only need three ingredients to make the basic recipe, many have put their own twists adding almond slices, sprinkles, strawberries and flavour extract. Pictured; An Indonesian user’s blue version


Keeping it simple! Users can make the bread with just three-ingredients where it resembles a soft, fluffy, bread

Another user added sprinkles to make the bread look delicious , she said the dish was ‘soft and fluffy’

Another talented Instagram user from Indonesia whipped up a blue and white patterned bread, which he said was ‘delicious’