The world's most revolting cakes - in pictures

A £120 lung cake shows the effects of smoking – and serves 20 Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

These white chocolate vertebrae are a favourite of Eat Your Heart Out 2012 curator Miss Cakehead Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

Let them eat maggoty cupcakes Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

Fancy munching on the hand of a plague victim? Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

Van Gogh, eat your heart out Photograph: Nevie Pie/Eat Your Heart Out

I'm your Anatomical Venus... in 750g of white chocolate Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

These Sexually Transmitted Infection cupcakes (including herpes and genital warts) are available in a £3.50 lucky dip – you don't know what you'll get Photograph: Two Little Cats Bakery/Eat Your Heart Out

An edible stack of vertebrae – a perfect accompaniment to the Stomach Contents cocktail available in the gruesome cake shop Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

If you ever wondered what an intracardiac injection looked like, here it is in cupcake form Photograph: Leshie Loves Cake/Eat Your Heart Out

Don't let the stitched surgical marzipan put you off – a rich fruitcake lurks within Photograph: Eat Your Heart Out

Hannibal Lecter would be gravely disappointed to learn that this hunk of flesh is actually chocolate truffle and rum chocolate buttercream frosting Photograph: Leshie Loves Cake/Eat Your Heart Out