Cthulhu cakes

So, while tentacle surfing the Lovecraftian web¹ I came across a rather appetizing site called Lovecraft News Network.

The LNN² dedicates itself to providing “an eclectic, free source for the latest news related to H.P. Lovecraft, including original interviews, culture, science, scholarship, and kitsch”.

Today’s post certainly falls into the latter category with “An illustrated study of Cthulhu cakes“, including the cakes in the pic on the left, crafted by Darcy LeClaire.³ Click the link for further horrifyingly delicious examples.

They ask:

What does this say about contemporary culture? What would the ideal Cthulhu cake taste like? Are Jane Austen fans jealous they don’t have an iconic figure of doom with which they can conjure forth in an act of confectionery heresy?

I confess that my first response was to note that these looked way tastier than the Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday treats I came across in December.

But these are valid questions. What do you think would be the perfect flavour for Cthulhu-themed treats?⁴

Footnotes:

1. Yeah, I just said “surfing the web”. Without irony. Party like it’s 1996. [back]
2. The riff off CNN is intentional, as evidenced by the site’s logo. [back]
3. My one critique of the site so far is that it rarely includes backlinks. I had to find the above link to LeClaire’s cakes via Google. [back]
4. And would you really want to eat a fishcake with icing? Or a fishcake at all, for that matter? [back]

Psyche is the editor of ahrfoundation.org and the curator for the occult resource SpiralNature.com, Psyche also operates a tarot consultation business, Psyche Tarot. She has been published in The Cauldron, Konton, Tarot World Magazine, among other magazines, and her essay “Strategic Magick” appeared in Manifesting Prosperity (Megalithica, 2008).

Psyche's website is http://www.ahrfoundation.org.