Edible book cakes – in pictures

From Pippi Longstocking to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, there's a cake for every book - and dozens of them have been pouring in for the International Edible Book Festival. Here are some of the yummiest
  
  


Edible books: Inspired by Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne
Piglet demonstrates the pleasure of 'Doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering', on this cake inspired by AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Naughty, naughty … Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking has seldom looked more mischievous Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
So who's going to gobble up The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle? Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
'And one thing was absolutely certain - life had never been sweeter' … Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired this choctastic confection Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo
Oona the elephant and Will watch the flood waters rise in this cake inspired by Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Smaug the dragon
Guarding all that treasure has exhausted Smaug the dragon in this cake inspired by JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Hang on, how many Sleepies are there on this cake inspired by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Silly old cupcakes, don't they know? there's no such thing as a gruffalo … Oh yes there is, on this cake inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's classic stories Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Inkworld has never looked so sinister as in this cake inspired by Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath Photograph: PR
Edible books: Inspired by The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
If Katniss could only get her hands on this cake, inspired by The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Photograph: PR
 

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