Like the best jelly cakes, The Cosmos appears at first glance to be an elaborate optical illusion. A Milky Way wrought in condensed milk jelly spirals out of its galactic center into shimmering nebulas of edible glitter. Although astronomers would not be able to identify the constellations suspended within the mirror-smooth dome, the overall effect is uncannily photorealistic. “We were looking specifically at Hubble imagery,” says pastry chef Jena Derman, who, along with mixologist Jack Schramm, runs the jelly cakery Solid Wiggles out of a Brooklyn incubator for queer-owned businesses….
