Skull candy: There’s method in this culinary madness… and 1kg of chocolate too (Picture: Caters)

People love babies. People love chocolate. But you’d need the sweetest of teeth to want to eat this chocolate baby’s head.

Even if you could countenance the disturbing prospect of gnawing on a newborn, there’s your waistline to consider.

The life-size, solid white chocolate creation weighs nearly one kilogram and contains 5,000 calories – nearly twice the recommended daily calorie intake for men.

But creator Annabel de Vetten has been swamped with orders. Even she admits it’s ‘quite surprising’ – but the heads are in demand for parties and even as baby shower gifts.


‘The look is quite controversial but if everybody liked them they wouldn’t be as fun to make,’ she said.

Alas, poor Yorkie: Annabel de Vetten looks like Shakespeare’s Hamlet as she holds up one of her baby heads (Picture: Caters)

Mrs de Vetten, 41, made the first of the £35 heads as a one-off commission and was briefed to produce ‘something that would shock people’.



‘From that point of view, I’ve accomplished the mission,’ she said.

The Birmingham cake artist had to suffer for her art. ‘I don’t actually like chocolate that much and there had to be a lot of experimenting,’ she said.

The heads are too big for most people to bite – so how best to prepare them? Smash them with a hammer, says Mrs de Vetten.