I work with a lot of rather disgusting pictures. Just an hour or two ago I was finishing up a video edit and I freaked out the FedEx guy. He’d stopped by the office to drop off a package, glanced at my screen and did an abrupt about-face to keep from revisiting his breakfast. I guess I’m kind of acclimated to that sort of thing. But even so, I think this is a link not for the squeamish… Let’s say you’re a horror movie fan who enjoys cooking. What better way to celebrate Halloween than a pumpkin carving party with an artistic cake that looks like a partially disemboweled thorax?
It’s brilliantly done. The ribs and vertebrae are white chocolate, and the various organs are different types of cake with different sauces. The cakes are carved into shapes taken from Gray’s Anatomy, which is possibly the first time I’ve ever heard of that as a kitchen reference book, and hopefully the last… And the description of the process is a hoot to read:
… it was relatively easy to assemble the rib cage on a silver tray. (The tray’s last use was for passing out cookies at Barbara May’s wedding.) Of course, with all the organs on top of it, virtually no one ever actually saw the fact that there was a complete spinal column underneath all the cake so some might say there was a bit of wasted effort there, but I say if you’re going to make an edible, anatomically correct chest cavity dessert tray, you might as well do it right!
It’s also full of handy cooking tips, like the fact that if you’re making a roll cake, you should be careful that the mixer and bowl be very clean and perfectly dry or the egg whipping won’t work. Also, fondant is very easy to work with and paint but it doesn’t hold sculptural detail as well as modelling chocolate.
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