Human skulls, dead babies, skinned birds and intestines: Meet the baker turning your worst nightmares into delicious CAKES

Annabel de Vetten, 42, from Birmingham, is nicknamed Annabel Lecter

Charges upwards of £400 for her decorated sponge creations

Former sculpture artist only began baking three years ago

Her first was her own wedding cake when she married magician Thom



Her wedding cake had a little magician on top, instead of bride and groom

Her company is called Conjurer's Kitchen



Afternoon tea is no longer all about clotted cream, crumpets, iced buns and steaming pots Earl Grey. At least, not if you're in Annabel de Vetten's kitchen.

Round her place, in Birmingham, tea time is the stuff of nightmares.

The ghoulishly creative baker, 42, who is nicknamed Annabel Lecter by her friends, has become famous for her terrifyingly realistic cakes - a motley collection of dead baby heads, skinned birds, rodent skulls, blood soaked intestines and human brains .

Not advised for a children's birthday party: Annabel de Vetten's cakes are sponge, decorated with icing sugar, chocolate and marshmallow, and sell for upwards of £400

Tasty treat: Annabel - nicknamed Annabel Lecter by her friends - only began baking three years ago, and now spends around 30 hours on each of her terrifyingly delicious masterpieces

Annabel only began baking three years ago, but now spends around 30 hours making each one out of sponge cake, icing, marshmallows and chocolate, and sells each for upwards of £400.

She said: 'When people look at my cakes, they recoil in disgust, but thankfully when they taste them, they love them.

'But it's funny watching their expressions as they bite into a bit of intestine and realise it tastes like chocolate cake.'

She continued: 'With stuff like the life-size baby's heads, which are made from white chocolate and therefore look kind of dead, it obviously isn't to everyone's taste - but they're certainly different and that's not always a bad thing.

'You should never be afraid to try things.'

Shudder: A skinned human face cake - one of the gruesome creations of Annabel de Vetten from Birmingham

Last remains: A sliced face cake made by Annabel is eaten off a plate and reveals that it really is just cake inside the very thick decorative icing

Annabel began cracking eggs and creaming butter just three years ago as she baked her own wedding cake when she tied the knot to magician Thom, 48.

After the cake, featuring a little magician on top instead of a bride and groom, went down a storm with guests, she quit her job as a sculpture artist to set up her own bakery, Conjurer's Kitchen.

She said: 'I started off just making cakes that were magician-themed, but I started getting more gruesome requests - and things just escalated into making dead baby heads and human hearts.

'My cakes resemble human organs, mummified heads and life-sized skulls - they're for people with a sweet tooth but a strong stomach.'

Dead birds and hooked beaks: Annabel fell into her business by accident, after making the cake for her wedding three years ago and receiving requests from guests for similar cakes

In the beginning: Two baby skull cakes before they've been fully iced

She added: 'I just sort of fell into this business. I didn't make my wedding cake with the mind to get into baking, we only had a small budget for our ceremony and I thought it would be a bit of fun and a penny-saver.

'But the cake came out really well and I had a lot of fun doing it. It just went from there and now I love my job.

'My family are so supportive of my gruesome cakes business - they would probably find it weirder if I made pretty and girly cakes because that just isn't me.'

Annabel has several big projects up her sleeve, including a serial killer cake and an unusual bondage-themed wedding cake.

Annabel said: 'My family are so supportive of my gruesome cakes business - they would probably find it weirder if I made pretty and girly cakes because that just isn't me'





Blood and guts and gore: 'I started off just making cakes that were magician-themed, but I started getting more gruesome requests - and things just escalated into making dead baby heads and human hearts'

Slice, ma'am? A mummy cake, another of Annabel's ghoulish desserts

Meet the maker: Annabel, pictured left hard at work, only began baking three years ago





