It takes Hannah Mendelsohn twenty minutes to drive from her Juneau, Alaska home to the grocery store and back. When she started creating patterns with M&Ms on her living room coffee table, she had no idea she’d need so many.

“I kept going to the store and buying more [M&Ms],” Mendelsohn said. “I probably went to the store at least five times. I did a little bit at a time.”

Mendelsohn, a 21-year-old medical assistant, separates M&Ms by color and arranges them in intricate patterns on any flat surface she can find. The result is a surface completely covered with M&Ms, no space between them. Mendelsohn arranges the colors in bright geometric patterns. She said this hobby first took root when she developed a love for chocolate.

“I mean, if we’re going anywhere, basically I’m going to pick up some chocolate,” she said. “Movies? Chocolate. Forget popcorn. Gas stations? I always make [my fiancée] run in for a candy bar. I love my chocolate. Love it.”

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When looking at this gorgeous wedding cake the first thing I thought was, “Thank goodness you can get M&M’s in single colors!” – because otherwise some poor person would have a heck of a time sorting out M&M’s (not to mention licking off enough red dye to get that pink… ).

This is another great example of how a simple candy can be used in elegant ways to produce real works of (edible) art. I wonder if the person who made this actually set it out in a grid before placing all the M&M’s on there, or just went for it! Either way, it’s a fabulous looking cake and probably tastes great, too – a fun twist on a traditional wedding treat.

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