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Eat Your Heart Out 2012
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Hide caption Operation!: Just like in the popular children's game, this set of macaroons by cakemaker Miss Insomnia Tulip look like realistic human organs.
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Hide caption STD cupcakes: From
Two Little Cats Bakery in Cambridge & Hertfordshire, these chocolate cupcakes display symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, including gonorrhoea, syphilis, HPV (genital warts), chlamydia and HIV. The bakers purposefully blind-packaged the treats. So, just like with unprotected sex, you never know what you'll get.
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Hide caption You don't have to be a zombie to eat a brain: Brain truffles by Freya & Rachel look surprisingly like they just might contain a neuron or two.
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Hide caption A Pathologist's Dozen: This set of twelve cupcakes by Tattoo Cakes depict historical illustrations of human anatomy.
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Hide caption RBC Cupcakes:
Denise Bakes Cakes of north London prepared these red velvet cupcakes topped with platelets and a raspberry jam and syrup center.
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Hide caption An Anatomical Model: This sponge cake with marzipan icing by the
Conjurer's Kitchen, a specialty baker, depict the art of wax modeling called "moulage" first developed during the Renaissance.
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Hide caption Suicide Stomach Contents: Bartender James Dance of Loading in Cornwall concocted this mixture of flavored vodka, chocolate pieces, skittles, and absinthe, with empty pill casings for garnish, modeled on pathology lab stomach specimen.
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Hide caption Festival organizer, pathologist, and baker, Carla Connolly injects a cake make to look like human flesh, in this promotional shot for the museum's bake sale.
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Hide caption What a boob: a cupcake (by cakemaker "Miss Insomnia Tulip") draws inspiration from breast diagrams in educational pathology.
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Everyone's crazy for cupcakes these days, as our pals over at The Salt will tell you. So why not use them to lure the public into a conversation about STDs and platelets?
That's what St. Bartholomews Pathology Museum in the U.K. is up to this weekend, and the baked goods on the menu are quite the frightening sight.
Just in time for Halloween, the event brings together specialty bakers and pathologists from across the U.K. "It's two different worlds colliding but it's a very interesting mix," says Carla Connolly, the pathology museum's technician and a co-organizer.
Along side the bake sale, the museum is hosting a lecture series. Topics range from venereal diseases in 17th century London to the importance of dangers of cancer screening.
Through Sunday, the museum will display an assortment of cakes, chocolates, cookies, and cocktails that would add flavor to any haunted house. Some highlights include: a trio of cookies made to look like fungus-infected toes, red blood cell cupcakes, diseased kidney cakes, and a macaroon display that reads like medical textbook diagram. (For other creepy treats, see the slideshow above.)
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