Choco-Thulhu

Here's an April Fool's disappointment for you: these Easter-ready Choco-Thulhu statuettes are a cruel hoax, and cannot be used to prettify your springtime carb-binge:

Easter is just around the corner, and we all need to load up on anti-oxidants, especially the non-euclidean kind. So, I am taking pre-orders on dark chocolate Cthulhus. 8-1/4" high, 3/8" thick. It's the same design as the resin statues, just tastier and not as good for fighting cavities:

Choco-Thulhu (via Super Punch)

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Prufrock451

That looks considerably more appetizing than my chocolate shoggoth.
grikdog

What about chocolate chocobos? Can we get those here in the states? The state, you know, of not enough chocolate?
Anonymous

I could make these for people….I have a 3d printer and would just need a design.
Anonymous

I like the idea of a sensitive young pastry chef awaking after a night of half-remembered and ominous drems, only to find his hands caked in chocolate residue. The kitchen is a chaotic mess, and it is clear that implements and appliances have been used in ways that defy logic and purpose. In a baking pan on the countertop lurks a bas-relief of a nameless, sugary horror perched atop a pedestal, dripping with frosted ichor. Behind the figure, in the depths of the pan, lurk cyclopean brownies …
- HereticGestalt
  
  Win.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    Seconded.
    
    If “frosted ichor” isn’t a band name, it’s certainly my new dessert craving.