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Oct. 28th, 2006 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellBlue and black paste food coloring GET
White, mint, and milk chocolate melty bits for candy GET
Decent sugar skull mold FAIL GET :(
Note to self: next year, do not assume that someone local will stock actual sugar skull molds and order the damn things online well in advance.
I figured Michael's or Hobby Lobby would have them. Nope. Party City? Nope. The mom & pop arts/crafts/party store around the corner smack dab in the middle of Little Mexico? Nope. FIESTA!? Come on, if anyone has the damn things, surely Fiesta does!
Nope.
Although they did have pan de muerto, which is good because I can't bake bread without mechanical aid (read: bread machine) for shit. But no sugar skull molds.
So, Plan B. I made tiny sugar skulls on tiny piles of bones with the mold I did have, and a few slightly larger but sort of inbred-looking sugar skulls with the crappy mold I made. The tiny ones aren't going to be big enough to do much decorating on aside from adding eyes and maybe a squiggle here and there, and the bigger ones--well, the words "lipstick" and "pig" come to mind.
HOWEVER: Larry's (the aforementioned mom & pop shop) DID have a fairly small skull cake pan! So the big fancy skull will be fudge cake with cream cheese frosting instead of sugar. Hell, it'll taste a lot better. I mean, I've been sampling the sugar shit, and although my experiment with adding a drop of hard candy flavoring did improve the taste, I still wouldn't want to chow down on a stack of these friggin' things. Yes, I know, sugar skulls are for show and not so much for eating, but I am five years old and must put everything in my mouth and thought I might try something to make them a little more eat-friendly. They do, at least, smell very nice.
So then there are the chocolate bits. I have the chocolate mint skulls-and-bonepiles setting up in the fridge right now; I plan on making those, some chocolate-with-crispies, some chocolate-with-Heath-bits, and some white-chocolate-with-Oreo-bits. I did the mint ones first because those would have no fiddly bits added into the melted chocolate and were therefore the easiest of the bunch and I have never actually done this pouring-chocolate-into-tiny-molds thing. It worked pretty well; each well on the mold holds a little less than a tablespoon of chocolate, as it turns out. And those are going to get icing eyes too, mainly so I can tell the chocolate ones apart with a minimum of fuss.
I also have fake spider webs complete with fake spiders all over my balcony and the neighbors love it.
White, mint, and milk chocolate melty bits for candy GET
Decent sugar skull mold FAIL GET :(
Note to self: next year, do not assume that someone local will stock actual sugar skull molds and order the damn things online well in advance.
I figured Michael's or Hobby Lobby would have them. Nope. Party City? Nope. The mom & pop arts/crafts/party store around the corner smack dab in the middle of Little Mexico? Nope. FIESTA!? Come on, if anyone has the damn things, surely Fiesta does!
Nope.
Although they did have pan de muerto, which is good because I can't bake bread without mechanical aid (read: bread machine) for shit. But no sugar skull molds.
So, Plan B. I made tiny sugar skulls on tiny piles of bones with the mold I did have, and a few slightly larger but sort of inbred-looking sugar skulls with the crappy mold I made. The tiny ones aren't going to be big enough to do much decorating on aside from adding eyes and maybe a squiggle here and there, and the bigger ones--well, the words "lipstick" and "pig" come to mind.
HOWEVER: Larry's (the aforementioned mom & pop shop) DID have a fairly small skull cake pan! So the big fancy skull will be fudge cake with cream cheese frosting instead of sugar. Hell, it'll taste a lot better. I mean, I've been sampling the sugar shit, and although my experiment with adding a drop of hard candy flavoring did improve the taste, I still wouldn't want to chow down on a stack of these friggin' things. Yes, I know, sugar skulls are for show and not so much for eating, but I am five years old and must put everything in my mouth and thought I might try something to make them a little more eat-friendly. They do, at least, smell very nice.
So then there are the chocolate bits. I have the chocolate mint skulls-and-bonepiles setting up in the fridge right now; I plan on making those, some chocolate-with-crispies, some chocolate-with-Heath-bits, and some white-chocolate-with-Oreo-bits. I did the mint ones first because those would have no fiddly bits added into the melted chocolate and were therefore the easiest of the bunch and I have never actually done this pouring-chocolate-into-tiny-molds thing. It worked pretty well; each well on the mold holds a little less than a tablespoon of chocolate, as it turns out. And those are going to get icing eyes too, mainly so I can tell the chocolate ones apart with a minimum of fuss.
I also have fake spider webs complete with fake spiders all over my balcony and the neighbors love it.
