Monday 19 August 2013

DIY: Edible Heart Transplant for a Party

This post is about a cool thing I found for parties. I was shopping in Helsinki with a friend and I ended up to the Heureka Shop which is a little shop of this Finnish science museum and exhibition place Heureka. I bought a cast of a human heart, not moulded with a help f a real heart, I would imagine, but it is still quite realistic.




Think of all those theme parties I can host! Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart is on the list, but before that I am hosting a party in the end of this month and the theme is "Docs & Drug addicts" You know, like "Vicar & Tarts" but my party is about the practitioners and abusers of Medicine. I know that is not that gothic a theme, but I wanted to show my new heart-maker and later some other ideas, because one can use them in a more goth party if one chooses to.


In this picture I have tested the heart-maker with the help of juice and a freezer. I am very pleased with the way my icy heart turned out! The cast is not flat from the bottom, so it is a bit tricky to make it stay in a position to manufacture ice, or jelly for that matter.

I shall make a post about my other party tricks after I have hosted the actual party, but this was just a little peek about my plans and funny food I am going to make.

7 comments:

  1. Ewwww, it looks quite realistic. :o)

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    1. Thanks. :D Lucky for me, the taste was not realistic, but was of sweet berries!

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  2. Really cool! I'm now sorry that I did not know about this shop when I was in Helsinki last year...

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    1. Apparently the name of this product is heart gelatin mould, and it can be bought from some online stores. I also saw a mould of brains: http://mcphee.com/shop/zombie-brain-gelatin-mold.html :D It is pretty cool too!

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  3. I like this, how can I buy one or two over the internet? I got a bit confused trying to find it on the shops page.

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    1. Unfortunately I don't know. The one I bought was the last one in the shop and I could not find it in their web store. The Web store did not even work in English, so I guess they do not ship outside Finland. :( In my heart cast only reads that it is made in China, no more information. But I found it online from a different store, I do not know if you could order it from there. http://mcphee.com/shop/heart-gelatin-mold.html

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    2. I've tried but Mcphee seem to only ship to within the US, no doubt one will turn up somewhere. Thanks.

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