By Clark 
Cloud bread. Pasta crisps. Butter boards. These represent but a fraction of the myriad food trends that have inundated social media platforms in recent years.
Due to TikTok, numerous inventive and visually striking culinary inventions have garnered widespread attention, motivating social media users to add their distinctive interpretations to the trending recipes. Currently, two frozen confections are prevailing on the social networking platform, both incorporating ice cream.
The initial craze was popularized by TikTok user Golnar Ghavami, known as @golisdream, who showcased her “sweet guilty pleasure”—ice cream encased in a Fruit Roll-Up. Upon encasing a scoop of mango ice cream with a strawberry Fruit Roll-Up, the TikToker took a mouthful, deeming the snack “the best and exceedingly satisfying.”
In contrast to the chewy consistency of a Fruit Roll-Up consumed at ambient temperature, incorporating ice cream into the fruit-flavored sheet causes it to freeze instantaneously, resulting in a gratifying, spine-tingling crunch when bitten into.
I inhaled sharply! I was unprepared with the level of crunchiness! Impressive! Thank you! A TikTok user remarked. “How did I spend my entire childhood unaware that fruit roll-ups freeze so effortlessly?” another individual remarked.
Since its posting on February 25, Ghavami’s TikTok video has accumulated 13.9 million views, while the hashtag #fruitrollupandicecream has attracted an additional 93.7 million views. A multitude of social media users have disseminated their interpretations of the food craze, selecting various combinations of Fruit Roll-Up and ice cream flavors.
This is not the inaugural occurrence of the Fruit Roll-Up ice cream trend on social media. In 2021, Trinh Carreon, known on TikTok as @trinhdoesthings, posted a video showing herself consuming the ice cream delicacy following a suggestion from a comment on an earlier video, as noted by BuzzFeed. You must experience this. “10 out of 10,” Carreon stated in the video, which has garnered 10.7 million views to date.
The second viral ice cream concept dominating TikTok is designed as a healthier dessert: cottage cheese ice cream. On March 23, content creator Lainie Kates disclosed her recipe for strawberry cheesecake cottage cheese ice cream, exclaiming, “I remain astonished by this nutritious ice cream alternative that contains nearly 60 grams of protein.”
The TikTok user subsequently combined Good Culture-branded cottage cheese, maple syrup, and strawberries. She subsequently added additional strawberries and crushed graham crackers, returned the mixture to the cottage cheese container, and allowed it to freeze for several hours.
Kates stated in the video, which has garnered 1.2 million views, “You possess the creamiest, simplest strawberry cheesecake ice cream that is rich in protein.”
A TikToker remarked, “Cottage cheese is the new cauliflower.” Simultaneously, another user who sampled Kate’s cottage cheese dish remarked, “[I]t’s amazing.” the most optimal and straightforward recipe I have encountered.
Despite Kates’ recipe gaining viral status, Today claimed that Kenzie Akers is the “evident originator of the trend,” highlighting that Akers disseminated her recipe for cottage cheese ice cream in March 2022.
Social media is already replete with many cottage cheese ice cream recipes, including individuals creating diverse flavors such as birthday cake, Snickers, and banana cream pie—although the flavor combinations are virtually limitless.