Ashtray Pudding

It's a thing now to make desserts that look like other things. Cupcakes made to look like hamburgers or spaghetti, complete with tomato sauce, meatballs, and parmesan. Fruit cut up and reformed to look like sushi rolls and sashimi. Trifles made in martini and shot glasses, to kink up whipped cream and cherries (which are pretty damn kinky on their own, I think).

What I propose: dessert that looks like something you would never want in your mouth. A fondant garbage pile cake. Yellow custard pus inside a spun-sugar blister. Pudding served in an ashtray, with a cookie crumbs to look like sand and snuffed-out candy cigarettes laying on top.

And why stop at dessert - why not make everything look disgusting. Use black food colouring to give vegetables rotten spots, and green for mouldy cheese and meat. Be inventive, and get back to me with stories of nauseated dinner guests.