--- title: Cloud Eggs: How to Make Instagram's Latest Food Fad description: The latest breakfast craze taking over social media feeds is cloud eggs — pillowy egg whites with separately cooked yolks in the middle. canonical: https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-09T18:13:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:28.428Z og:title: This Is the Newest Food Trend Taking Over Social Media og:description: And how to make it yourself og:url: https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea39d507a01a597f/6988cc9c97cdff77bc6b09ec/cloud-egg-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Close-Up Of Egg Carton With Broken Egg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Newest Food Trend Taking Over Social Media twitter:description: And how to make it yourself twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea39d507a01a597f/6988cc9c97cdff77bc6b09ec/cloud-egg-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is the Newest Food Trend Taking Over Social Media by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 9, 2017 6:13 PM UTC  Banar Fil Ardhi / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 9, 2017 6:13 PM UTC The latest [breakfast craze](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/2748/food-trends-are-raising-the-price-of-avocados-and-cream-cheese) taking over social media feeds is [cloud eggs](http://www.foodandwine.com/breakfast-brunch/latest-breakfast-instagram-craze-unexpected-take-eggs?xid=soc%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter%5Ffw) — pillowy egg whites with separately cooked yolks resting in the middle. The fluffy (and photogenic) egg dish has been [popping up on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/CloudEggs/) in recent weeks, although the particular method of cooking the eggs has been around for a while. Cloud eggs are made by separating egg whites from yolks, beating them until they form a meringue-like consistency and adding desired mix-ins before baking them with the egg yolks dropped into the center. Once finished, the eggs should look like two small clouds, with runny yolks in the center perfect for stabbing with a toast point. And of course, don’t forget to post a photo of the eggs online. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/"},"headline":"This Is the Newest Food Trend Taking Over Social Media","datePublished":"2017-05-09T18:13:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:28.428Z","description":"And how to make it yourself","url":"https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea39d507a01a597f/6988cc9c97cdff77bc6b09ec/cloud-egg-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea39d507a01a597f/6988cc9c97cdff77bc6b09ec/cloud-egg-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Close-Up Of Egg Carton With Broken Egg","caption":"Close-Up Of Egg Carton With Broken Egg","creditText":"Banar Fil Ardhi / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/","name":"This Is the Newest Food Trend Taking Over Social Media"}}]}] ```