This book features killer cupcakes that taste bloody good! After being banished for so long to the land of the pretty & identical, the domestic & the twee, cupcakes are biting back. Here, Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from anywhere
- insects, roadkill, zombies
- & recreate it in cake, but always with a delicious result. This book is an introduction to making cakes that look weird, ugly & even grotesque
- but that taste divine! There are amazing materials for making edible sculptures & hundreds of things you can do with natural ingredients. Give guests a shock with revoltingly realistic Marzipan Beetles, or add a crunch to your desserts with Morbid Meringue Bones, dipped in raspberry blood sauce. Try out a black cherry Dracula's Bite red velvet cupcake with cream cheese, eat your way through heavenly Fallen Angel Cakes or go for indulgent & truly dark chocolate Devil's Delight Cupcakes. If Ozzy Osbourne made cupcakes, these are the ones he'd want to eat. About the Author Lily Vanilli, aka Lily Jones, is a baker & cake designer. Originally a graphic designer, she began baking as a hobby & then started selling her cakes at Swanfield market near Brick Lane. Her cakes are made by hand in her own kitchen in east London, & are available online at www.lilyvanilli.com. She is known for her unusual recipes
- she experiments with savoury ingredients such as avocado & bacon
- & designs spectacular cakes & other edible treats, such as the marzipan insects she made for an Alexander Mc Queen film project, or the blood & gore cupcakes created for Maaike Meeking's show at London Fashion Week.