A picture is worth a thousand calories! Food artist creates detailed portraits of pop culture icons and A-listers like Sia, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Kanye out of edible ingredients

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Harley Langberg, 28, makes artwork out of food and has collaborated with brands like Chili's, Whole Foods, and Dylan's Candy Bar
The New Yorker plays with spices, sauces, rice, produce, and candy for his creations
He told Daily Mail Online that he was first inspired by a exhibit at Chelsea Market
His favorite ingredients to use are eggplant and candy.

Published: 16:18 EST, 3 January 2017 | Updated: 16:18 EST, 3 January 2017

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Celebrities are rich, powerful, and often beautiful — and, as one artist has rendered them, they're also pretty delicious.

Harley Langberg, a 28-year-old New Yorker, creates edible masterpieces that have earned him tens of thousands of Instagram followers. But his works of culinary artistry aren't available to order in any restaurant — in fact, they're really not meant to be eaten at all.

Rather, Harley makes plated pictures of pop culture figures and celebrities out of tasty-looking ingredients like cereal, fruit, and even baked beans.

Picture and palette-perfect: Harley Langberg, 28, makes artwork out of edible ingredients

Going for gold: He's done renderings of Sia and Olympian Simone Biles (pictured)

For looking, not eating: He often works with Oreos, molding faces out of the cream center

Going gaga: He also likes to work with candy, like he did for this Lady Gaga picture, because it is colorful

Pure imagination: Sometimes he uses ingredients with a connection to the celeb or character, like Gene Wilder made out of chocolate

BEANedict Cumberatch? Other times he uses unexpected foods, like the baked beans he used for the Star Trek actor

Harley first started making his food art in 2013, and has gone on to do work for Whole Foods, Chili's, Food Network, Dylan's Candy Bar, Dana's Bakery, and Illy Coffee.

'I first got inspired to make food art when I was living down in the West Village and saw for the first time food art in an exhibition they had at Chelsea Market,' he told Daily Mail Online. 'I was so fascinated by what I saw and that night took a stab at creating a banksy piece using an eggplant.'

He recreates famous works of art, does landscapes, and creates famous cartoons, characters, and stars out of food.

Motivation? The New Yorker explained to Daily Mail Online he was first inspired by an exhibit in Chelsea Market

Nom nom nom: He does actors, singers, athletes, and fictional characters

Sporting stars: The artist added that spices are hard to work with, but they certainly make for nice pictures

Twist it open: His Oreo series in particular is quite fun and artistic

Cultural references: He also makes a lot of emojis out of different edible ingredients

Sometimes, he picks out ingredients that have special significance for the celebrities he's making: sriracha for Guy Fieri, pieces of chocolate for Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Miss Piggy out of candy, NBA's Stephen Curry out of curry powder.

Other times, he just works with what looks right. He made Sia's two-tone hair out of black and white rice. Anna Wintour was made from a mix of spices. Simone Biles got the artistic treatment with brown sugar and Fruity Pebbles.

Though he's clearly game to experiment, some ingredients make better mediums than others.

'Fruits and vegetables for the most part are easy to work with. Sauces and spices can be difficult as they are harder to control,' he said. 'I love using eggplant because it is so versatile and my other favorite ingredient to use in candy because of the diversity of colors and textures.'

Cha cha cha: He likes to work with fruits and vegetables and especially likes using eggplant

Experience: Harley had worked with big brands like Whole Foods, Chili's, and Dylan's Candy Bar

Good enough to eat: This chocolate Kanye West picture looks delicious

Pik-a-CHEW: Lately he has been trying to make the flavors of his art more cohesive

Pretty: He also recreates famous works of art, like Van Gogh's Starry Night

He also does a lot of work with Oreo cookies, splitting them open and molding and coloring the cream inside into a famous face. This way, he's fashioned The Pope, David Bowie, Kerry Washington, Nicki Minja, a Troll, the White House, Katy Perry and her Super Bowl Sharks, US Presidents, and several emojis.

'My Oreo pieces are always my most difficult as you have to work with the outside elements and temperatures when dealing with the Oreo cream,' he said.

Though most of his creations are for looking, not eating, Harley said he does quite like to cook and had lately been looking to make is pieces more 'edible.'

And though he doesn't have children yet, he added that one day he hopes to and he plans 'to make them fun healthy creative food art dishes' with his skills.