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Lily Vanilli is a very talented cupcake artist. Her book “A Zombie Ate My Cupcake: 25 Deliciously Weird Cupcake Recipes” is not for the faint of heart! Are you ready for these cupcakes? These aren’t your typical Halloween cupcakes with Oreo crumbed earth and gummy worms!
These recipes are straight out creepy and she’ll show you how to take inspiration from the macabre and grotesque to create some really evil and gross looking cupcakes that taste heavenly. Using natural ingredients and edible decorating materials, such as edible lustre dusts, gum paste, and glazes, she’ll turn basic cupcakes into amazingly realistic and delicious sculptures.
Give your guests a scare with some of these weird, ugly, and even grotesque cupcakes! We're showing you some of her 'tamer' creations... and we purposely left out the 'bleeding heart!'
Would your kids be into these cupcakes as a Halloween surprise?
A Zombie Ate My Cupcake: 25 Deliciously Weird Cupcake Recipes
Publisher: Cima Books
Available at Chapters and Amazon.ca.
About the Author
Lily Vanilli, aka Lily Jones, is a baker and cake designer. Originally a graphic designer, she began baking as a hobby and then started selling her cakes at Swanfield market near Brick Lane. Her cakes are available online and from Harrods food hall. She is known for her unusual recipes - she experiments with savoury ingredients such as avocado and bacon - and designs spectacular cakes and other edible treats, such as the marzipan insects she made for an Alexander McQueen film project, or the blood and gore cupcakes created for Maaike Meeking's show at London Fashion Week.
