I wish I had come across this earlier. I would have loved to make these for my youth workers! If you still have time I strongly recommend you doing them. They look grossly delicious and fun!! I plan to make them for my PL reunion in the Fall.

Hey, Dr. Blindstein plans to stick around for a while. So if you have any more great home-made ideas just e-mail them to me. I would be more than happy to add them to his site!  

By Mark Rehorst and his son Alex, a Cub Scout.

I've had a few microbiology cl and cultured many different types of bacteria on different media, and I happened to have a case of pyrex Petri dishes from an old surplus buy (relax, they were unused) so I thought it would be fun to make dessert that looked like bacterial cultures served in Petri dishes! I prepared the media (jello, tapioca pudding, and lemon pie filling) and Alex did most of the decorating.  We used dark chocolate syrup, cinnamon, cocoa powder, sweetened condensed milk, gummy octopi, and some cake decorating gel along with a little food coloring. This should be good for a Halloween party or a creepy movie night with friends. They might go well with bowls of gummy worms served on ground-up Oreo cookie dirt.

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