Jennifer of Organized Confetti made these cupcakes for the season premiere of the TV show Dexter.

She made red velvet cupcakes to look like red flesh. Then she tinted plain butter cream frosting to look like skin. The knives were made out of melted and colored white chocolate she just piped onto some parchment paper in a knife-like shape and stuck in the fridge to harden. Once they were nice and solid she stabbed them into the fleshcakes and added a little of some horrible food decorators gel stuff to look like blood. Talk about creativity!

While we’re on the subject of slashin, feast your eyes on this entire dining room created by Amy Lau, inspired by Showtime’s Dexter. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan, a serial killer governed by a strict moral code (his victims must be unrepentant killers themselves and he must have defining proof of their crimes) who actually works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood splatter analyst.

The room has a table ready for a sit down dinner of twelve. No detail is left unturned with stark white and blood red accents. Check out the dining chairs with the embroidered blood splatter. Dexter is meticulous about keeping his workspace clean.

Here a vinyl-wrapped table and ceiling and plastic-sheathed floor recall the protective plastic the Dexter obsessively uses to protect against splatters when killing. Copycat this look with white chair covers with red splashes of fabric paint.

The table is set with Thomas Fuchs Wine & Water goblets that have a vein-like streak running down the stem. Red wine refills are available in blood vials. Blood-splattered Dexter Commemorative Plates by KleinReid rest on top of Nadeige Choplet chargers. Steve Butcher’s Dismembered Flatware alludes to the fate of the victims.

To create the blood vial centerpieces for red wine refills at a cheaper price–an online science supply store can easily help you create your own version. Inexpensive wine glasses with a dribble of red glass paint down the stem makes a perfect substitute. And the plates? A splash or two of red paint on unfired bisque at your local paint-your-own pottery store ought to do the job.

Repurposed wine glasses dipped in white latex, then strung amidst wood, cables, light bulbs, wires, wax rope and ribbon create this elaborate chandelier. Want your own? A quick online search of “wineglass chandelier”. If you have the muhlah, the Dexter chairs, as well as bloody dinner plates and dismembered flatware from the collection, are available.

Over the fireplace mantel, the pierced canvas of Nava Lubelski’s “Day Dreams” helps set the crime scene. The red stitched fabric is covered in red ink stains Stephen Antonson candlesticks, shaped like human vertebrae, illuminate the mantel while the LG TV monitor glows below.