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25 Terrifying Halloween Cakes to Curdle Your Blood
Hair-raising sweets for the horror-inclined.
As the clock strikes closer to All Hollows Eve, specialty cake makers start coming out of the woodwork to create one-of-a-kind confections guaranteed to chill the heart’s blood of any sweet tooth.
Here are some blood-curdling examples of edible Halloween artwork to give “life” to any party:
#1. Your heart’s desire on a plate from Lilly Vanilli, London.
Photo credit: Owen Richards / Lily Vanilli
#2. This bloody beautiful blonde from Blissfully Sweet Cakes, in Putney, Sydney
Photo credit: Blissfully Sweet
#3. Hogging the limelight by Tattooed Bakers, London
Photo credit: Nathan Pask
Fresh from the butcher…er, baker. Cooked raw just the way you like it.
Photo credit: Nathan Pask
#4. Flayed pieces of demon horse for dessert also by Tattooed Bakers in London
Photo credit: Andras Bartok / The Tattooed Bakers
#5. A mime isn’t such a terrible thing to waste after all says the All Mine Patisserie in Leeds
Photo credit: Kate Haigh / All Mine Patisserie
#6. Neither are these dismembered members, also by All Mine Patisserie in Leeds
Photo credit: Kate Haigh / All Mine Patisserie
Give us a hand, and we'll help you get one foot in the door.
Photo credit: Kate Haigh / All Mine Patisserie
#7. Nevie-Pie Cakes in Hertfordshire are ear collectors.
Photo credit: Natasha Collins / neviepiecakes.com
They also specialize in skin and nail diseases.
Photo credit: Natasha Collins / neviepiecakes.com
#8. Conjurer’s Kitchen in Birmingham caters to the anatomically correct…
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
#9. …even if their cadavers have reached past their “sell by” date.
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
#10. They also provide the stuff made up of dentists’ nightmares…
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
#11. …and confections to sweeten any torturer’s mood.
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
#12. Because who wouldn’t salivate from this piece of severed belly button?
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
Complete with a complimentary navel ring.
#13. Conjurer’s Kitchen in Birmingham creates surgical delights.
Photo credit: Annabel de Vetten / conjurerskitchen.com
#14. While the Sideserf Cake Studio in Austin, Texas can sweeten up your impending divorce.
Photo credit: Natalie Sideserf / Sideserfcakes.com
Or beheading. Whichever comes first.
#15. They also specialize in Workers’ Compensation celebrations…
Photo credit: Natalie Sideserf / sideserfcakes.com
…machine cut your arm off? No problem. Call the union and sue.
#16. …and parties for “Game of Thrones” fans.
Photo credit: Natalie Sideserf / Sideserfcakes.com
Because, hey…valar morghulis, dude.
#17. If you’re into sweetened flesh wounds, you should pay Totally Sugar in southwest London a visit.
Photo credit: Totally Sugar
They have a brisk trade in body parts.
Photo credit: Totally Sugar
#18. While Sweet As Sugar in Surrey specializes in Wrongful Death.
Photo credit: Laura Miller / sweetassugarcakes.com
#19. Sweet As Sugar in Surrey loves Chuckie just as much as you do…
Photo credit: Laura Miller / sweetassugarcakes.com
#20. …also zombie mermaids, for whatever reason.
Photo credit: Laura Miller / sweetassugarcakes.com
#21. Fancy playing tongue hockey with a Kraken’s mouth?
Photo credit: Rozie Powell
Rozie Powell, cake decorator for The Tattooed Bakers will get you prime access.
Photo credit: Rozie Powell
#22. For the fuss-free minimalist, Choccywoccydoodah in London will bake your cake.
Photo credit: Laura Gallant / Buzzfeed
#23. While Twisted Fondant in Winchester, Hampshire will give you a worm for your money.
Photo credit: Twisted Fondant / twistedfondant.co.uk
#24. Because who wouldn’t love this zombie garden gnome from Caking It in Beckenham, south London.
Photo credit: Sarah King / cakingit.co.uk
#25. Or this heart…
Photo credit: Sarah King / cakingit.co.uk
…make that dozens of hearts…
Photo credit: Sarah King / cakingit.co.uk
So, when’s dessert?