While Pinterest may be saturated with too many fails, here's an Instagram account that intends to scare you in a good way. Christine McConnell [1] is a photographer by day and a creepy bakestress by night, and she's responsible for creating wonders like alien cookies, serpent cake, and tentacled monster waffle cones. Are you ready to experience awe and heebie-jeebies at the same time?
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Strawberry-Chocolate Monsters
"I decided to try making waffle cones from scratch. then this sorta happened..." Christine refers to the monsters made of strawberries, melted chocolate, crumbled cake, whipped cream, and frosting-fondant tentacles.
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(Happy) Birthday Cake
For a friend's birthday, Christine made a chocolate and white layer cake filled with rice pudding and chocolate chips and coated with decor buttercream and piped melted chocolate. One cannot overlook the custom-made black candles.
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Retro Picnic
The girl does more than desserts, but even her picnic spread looks a bit creepy.
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Lemon Bars With Meringue
Though these lemon bars topped with honey meringue seem sweet and harmless, take a closer look to see the creepy buttercream dragon bees.
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To-Die-For Cinnamon Rolls
Even if she's not baking up something macabre, Christine finds a way to stay in theme: "This is what I made for breakfast . . . and now I want to die."
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Butter Rival
"Paula Deen [8] better watch her back," she dares the current butter queen.
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Adam Lambert's Cake, NBD
Adam Lambert [10] commissioned Christine to bake a cake for his Voodoo Bayou-themed party, complete with bone crosses and a serpent with a candle tongue on top.
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Apple Pie With Crushed Pecans and Salted Caramel
Christine designed a fruit-filled tree out of the pie crust.
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German Chocolate House
Inspired by her parents' house, Christine re-created it in the form of a german chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and piped melted chocolate. "No fondant," she boasts.
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Alien Cookie
Though it's simply spiced sugar cookie pieces glued together with caramel, even the cat is afraid, very afraid.
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Chicken Pot Pie
Beak, feet, and wings included, but don't worry, they are just carved carrots and pie crust.
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Red Velvet Wedding Cake
When asked to create a wedding cake, the baker took a Victorian, gothic approach.
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Samoa Tarantula Cookies
Because why rely on Girl Scouts when you can DIY [17] samoa tarantula cookies?
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