Prince's Trust grant to make chocolate nipples

Prudence Emma Staite, a food stylist from Gloucestershire, has been awarded a ?5,000 grant by Prince Charles' charity to set up a business in Tewkesbury, England making amongst other things, chocolate nipples.

Ms Staite specialises in artworks that can be eaten, often created in chocolate by using a cast of her own body parts, including making an order for chocolate nipples to be served as a dessert at an arty wedding in New York.

Can food be art? Well Prudence Emma Staite certainly thinks so and is launching a gallery dedicated to her chocol-art. As a perfectionist she only uses the really good quality chocolate, and the consequence of working with so much chocolate temptation, including chiselling it with her teeth, is that she tends to eat rather a lot of it during a working day.

"I like the idea that you can eat anything and doing the body parts it's kind of like hinting at cannibalism ..." she says. She has even found a way to make heatproof chocolate jewellery, and makes games from draughtsboards to giant Jenga, all out of the sinful brown material.

With one of her chocol-art ambitions to make a lifesize Nelson's Column entirely out of chocolate she is certainly not confining her talents to body parts alone.