For those who need another morbid bakery fix following Halloween, a novel twist has been organised by the Met Bar in London, which this year celebrated the Mexican Day of the Dead festival (Dia de los Muertos) on 2 November, including coffin shaped chilli-chocolate mud pies (A)... bit.ly/9tTuZg

Cheese and wine is so passé, especially now that the world has its first cupcake, beer and wine bar in New York. Called Sweet Revenge, it pairs cupcakes with booze for connoisseurs of cupcakery (B)... www.sweetrevengenyc.com

Pie or cake? For those people who are confounded by choice when confronted with delicious bakery goods, a new trend is emerging: two-in-one cakes this one is an apple and pumpkin pie crossed with a chocolate and vanilla cake, held together with a trowel-load of icing (C)... bit.ly/aNLepM

Here’s a mesmerising ticking counter of the number of overweight people in the world right now. It was 1,156,028,075 at the last count (D)... www.worldometers.info