19 Scientifically Accurate Cakes That Will Put You Off Your Lunch
Mmmmm tapeworm.
1. Dead sheep cake.
Complete with infected liver and snail.
2. Polycystic kidney disease cake.
3. HIV cake.
@wellcometrust HIV cake made by HIV immunologists @UniofOxford #sciencecake
Adam John Ritchie
@adamjohnritchie
@wellcometrust HIV cake made by HIV immunologists @UniofOxford #sciencecake
4. "Three is a crowd" cake.
5. "Testicake."
Yes that is what you think it is.
6. Myxomatosis rabbit cake.
7. Mystery cell cake.
#ScienceCake from Y7 @wellcometrust @CentreoftheCell cheek cell? Root hair cell? You decide! Love the Oreo nucleus!
TMBSScience
@TMBSScience
#ScienceCake from Y7 @wellcometrust @CentreoftheCell cheek cell? Root hair cell? You decide! Love the Oreo nucleus!
8. Canine facial muscles cake.
(With scarily real-looking teeth).
9. "Pathological Christmas dinner" cake.
Just out of shot: "fecal contamination."
10. Rabbit anatomy cake.
@wellcometrust I'm a veterinary student and my mom made a rabbit anatomy birthday #sciencecake
Leau
@DrLeau
@wellcometrust I'm a veterinary student and my mom made a rabbit anatomy birthday #sciencecake
11. "Beefcake fetus."
Winner of the "grossest cake" award at a Nottingham Veterinary School competition, for obvious reasons.
12. "Equine surgery" cake.
13. "Leg amputation" cake.
14. Flea cake.
15. "Ascarid impaction colic" cake.
Ascarids are a type of horse parasite.
16. Tapeworm cake.
As requested by @wellcometrust, here again is our tapeworm cake made by Liz Dobson and @annievet1 #sciencecake
Zoonoses & EID
@ZoonoticDisease
As requested by @wellcometrust, here again is our tapeworm cake made by Liz Dobson and @annievet1 #sciencecake
17. "Bullseye" cake.
From the competition notes: "Springy sponge, could be slightly more moist. Blood worryingly like the real thing."
18. Failed abdominal surgery cake.
With truffle intestines. Yum.
19. Anatomically correct head cake.
