Annabel de Vetten (aka Annabel Lecter) is the mastermind behind The Conjurer’s Kitchen, a UK bakery/cake designing company that is renowned for its morbid, gruesome wares. De Vetten is gaining notoriety for cakes that resemble the skin suit from The Silence Of The Lambs, the “Dissected Cake”, which you can see below, and many more horrific yet gorgeous delicacies.
As someone who loves to cook, the amount of detail and thought that goes into each of these creations just boggles my mind. I would love to have these at every event I host, not only because of how incredible they are but also because I know it would be the talk of the night.
In an in-depth interview with Vice, she explains:
I was reading Dr. Paul Koudounaris’ book ‘Empire of Death’ and was marveling once again at the painted skulls displayed in the Ossuary of St. Michael in Halstatt, Austria, and it occurred to me that I could make myself one, in chocolate. I hadn’t really thought about if that would be something my customers would want or aimed at selling. It was just something I wanted to own and as I couldn’t have a real one I made one from chocolate. There are other chocolate human skulls available to buy in different levels of quality, but I wanted to keep mine a little different. After experimenting with some human skulls I did a little research and noticed that no one was doing chocolate animal or bird skulls. I was very surprised, it seemed so obvious to me.
While we have a small gallery of images below, you really need to just go to her website and see everything for yourself. It’s unbelievable.
