Corpse cakes

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Oct 9th 2005 @ 3:35PM

Sure, Halloween is coming, but I think this corpse cake from Carl Huber at Warehouse is really a dessert for all seasons.

If any curiosity should remain about what, exactly, this is, I can refer you to a quote from the recipe: “What's a Corpse Cake you ask? It's a cake that looks like a corpse, moron.”

Fair enough.

This got me to thinking about the old Penn and Teller book How To Play With Your Food.

In particular, the bleeding heart gelatin dessert.

I also recently found another, far more anatomically correct, corpse cake. This one (pictured below) was posted to Phoom! over the summer. I guess there’s nothing new under the sun.

I'm not sure if I prefer the corpse cakes to the bread body parts or not.

Filed Under: Food Oddities, On the Blogs, Methods
Tags: baking, dessert, oddities

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10-10-2005 @8:15AM Berkana said... This is the kind of thing I thought "Slashfood" might be about--slashed up, corpse-looking food. . . Freaknasty.

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