I have to admit: I like zombie related stuff as much as the next guy, but I may have a slight obsession with skulls… so when I saw Marina Malvada’s chocolate skulls I just about lost it. Each one is hand cast from a mold that was taken from an actual human skull, so these are no dollar store Halloween chocolate slouches. Each one differs slightly and looks eerily like aged, cracked bone- not to mention the fact that I rub my hands in glee thinking about gnawing on one with melting chocolate smeared all over my face.
Chocolate Skulls – Cannibal Candy for the Macabre Mind
An art and design student from Canada, Marina spends weeks working on each piece importing fresh chocolate, blending flavors, setting, curing and perfecting each of the chocolate skulls. She dusts each one with icing sugar, chocolate powder and cinnamon to highlight details like the suturing and to give each skull a dirty, fresh from the ground look. The sheer amount of dedication coupled with the sheer amount of chocolate makes for one impressive and tasty labour of love. 
Outside of the pounds of chocolate you get, think of how many excellent things you can do with these. Hannibal Lector dinner party coup de grâce dessert? Exceptionally inappropriate and insensitive funeral buffet centerpiece? Delicious, easy way to scare off in-laws, door to door salesmen and Jehova’s witnesses? Enable Hulk-like shows of strength and fury while smashing one to bits and chewing the shards? There are about zero reasons NOT to have one, except for perhaps the cost- though it may be a bit pricey, considering the quality of the materials and the painstaking labour you really can’t complain. Each skull runs at $200, and is made to order out of ‘Bone’ Chocolate (a blend of Belgian white and pure Mexican milk chocolate,) pure Dark, or Semi-sweet. You can order your very own edible ‘ead, see photos and check out more about Marina’s work at her site.
Oh man, this is soooo creepy yet cool!!!!
My stomach is growling…
ok what is really disturbing about this is that if you think about it its made form a mold that was wrapped around a real human skull. So you basically having 2nd hand contact with a real human skull that you’re putting in your mouth. Well unless they put a plastic divide between the mold and the chocolate or the skull..
Either way it would make a great thing for Halloween either shatter one and put the pieces out for trick or treaters or start off a party with the ceremonial shattering of the skull 🙂
Yes and no- traditionally, to create a food grade silicone mold, you take a casting of the item first, then take a mold from the casting. If that’s the case, you would have taken the first negative mold, used that to pour a casting, made sure that was perfect before using the expensive silicone, and then used that to create the final silicone negative mold.
That being said, I’d totally go for the closer and creepier… I’m not joking when I say I have an obsession with skulls. I actually think one of her client photos (https://72.172.130.65/chocolateskulls/images/clientphotos_11.jpg) is one of the most romantic things ever.
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I realize my taste may be questionable.
ahh ok i see, well i still think it make a great thing for Halloween. Just take a picture of it print it out and sit it atop a bowl of the pieces. then when lil tommy gets home and parent ask what did you get trick or treating lil tommy goes a eye socket i think…. (hmm maybe i’m putting to much thought into this..)
oh and in the case of skulls i got 2 old pewter and glass shot glasses you’d like. One with a skull on one side and the 4 horsemen death on other side and another with a ace card with a picture of a skull wearing top hat with a ace card on the hat and other side a skull siting back holding a revolver and smoking a cigar.