Inspired by all things spooky and driven to make this one the best Halloween yet, we show you how these ambitious elves flopped and floundered.
It's more bake fail than bake sale - and scary for all the wrong reasons.
One webpage dedicated to documenting blundered attempts at re-creating Pinterest perfections, pinterestfail.com, has collaborated the best bad attempts at bakes, face paints and creative carves this Halloween...
Baking blunder
This baker attempted to make some easy-yet-effective cupcakes for her company's Halloween BBQ. Think super simple black designs on top of fluorescent orange icing - a few easy cobwebs and a couple of ‘eeks', easy, right? Her end result was a bake of black bullets smothered in mint-jelly and white graffiti. Better luck next year!
Not such egg-celent artwork
How do you like your eggs in the morning? This chef likes hers with a haunted twist. When trying to replicate this mustard art on her fried egg, she made a charred edged, massacred skeleton. And we bet, most horrific of all, that yolk isn't runny anymore...
No pop-cake prodigy
Pop cakes - a small dollop of intricately iced sponge. Perfect for children and diet lovers, these sweet little bites are great at Halloween too. This bake instead mimicked a plate of decayed teeth with sprinkles on top and a stick pointing out. A horrendous disaster she wont be trying again.
A terrible set of teeth
A healthy treat for children, these apple smiles are simple to make: slice an apple and glue marshmellows together with a little caramel. Add a bombsite, handful of scream and a terribly distressed chef, and you have these... a yellow apple with sliding dentures.
Problematic pumpkins
These super sweet pumpkins are made by poking a pretzel stick into a ball of cheese and creating lines with a tooth pick. This victim's end result looks like a terribly infected finger. With deformed cheese balls and chunky, crumbling pretzels, she aborted mission. Safer for everyone.
Catastrophic carving
Props for getting creative with your carving! Try your favourite cartoon, a haunting scene or even an angry bird! The end result... a deformed carving completely unreminiscent of the original, or of anything else for that matter - made more horrific after lighting.
Failed face-painting
Get artsy with your face paint and try replicating this comic-book-hero look with make up. Super easy, just a few dots, some sculpting lines and statemnt eyes - no need for fancy costume. Unless of course you just end up with heavy eyebrows and dodgy pen marks.
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