Strange Food

<p>This mysterious pastry chef from the northeast of England specialises in creating the most spine-chilling pies you have ever seen.<br></p><p>The Vegan Pastry Chef, on TikTok, also known as Gracey Cakes, has accumulated nearly 2.2 million followers on her account with her specific brand of creepy bakes.</p><p>Gracey’s creations are both delicious and creepy looking vegan meat and fruit pies shaped like faces, all wonky teeth, blood spatters and buggy eyes.</p><p>Making something this scary AND delicious is hard enough on its own, but doing it with no animal products is even harder, but Gracey seems nonchalant about it.</p><p>“I have been a pastry chef for 10 years and I trained professionally for 3 years so vegan baking comes natural to me. I used to figure out vegan recipes through trial and error but now there is a vegan recipe for anything out there!” Gracey explained</p><p>She’s making food, but it’s also artistic expression, according to her: </p><p>“I was in a very dark place when I began making face pies and I often put these negative emotions into the expressions of the pies. It’s quite a cathartic experience,” Gracey explained.</p><p>The pies she creates inhabit a very specific and strange level of horror, that give a slight creepiness but also have a very calming atmosphere. </p><p>“My intention when I started pie videos was to create something calming and nostalgic, like old children’s cartoons that seemed innocent but were really quite scary,” Gracey says.</p><p>It may be lost on some, but this is not unnoticed by her viewers:</p><p>“This makes me feel at home,” said one.</p><p>“Am I the only one who feels comfy watching her videos?” Asked another.</p><p>“Scary but comforting at the same time, I love it.” Another one mentioned.</p><p>They are clearly an art piece, made for their appearance on video, but Gracey’s pies are delicious, as well.<br></p>