Only God Can Make a Tree

August 6th, 2008 by Madeleine Robins

But I can make flowers! I’ve been taking a cake-decorating class this summer, with a view to gaining skills so that I can subvert, as they say, the dominant paradigm. Granted, I’m unlikely to do that with frosting pansies and sweet peas and forget-me-nots. But in the larger scheme of things I can see a day when, instead of a basket full of flowers like this (last night’s class project)–

I could turn out a basket full of skulls. Or worms. Or zombies.

And that’s where I need your help, Brainiacs. I’m looking for candy molds–the weirder the better. Zombies, skulls, skeletons, eyeballs…anything ookie or weird. The lovely woman who teaches my class leans toward moles of ballerina shoes and puppies and doves in flight; I won’t find what I want there. And since I’ve also learned how to do sugar molding, if you find me a cool mold I’ll send you a set of molded sugar what-ever-you-finds, as a thank you.

Act now! Before the flowers completely take over! (They’ve already taken over the dog…)

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8 Responses

1. Bradley Denton Says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

   That Emily is my kind of dog. (Burp!)

2. Paula Helm Murray Says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

   I’m not sure where you live exactly but sugar art Dia de los Muertos skulls are a big deal in Hispanic communities. Somewhere (my Google fu is strong…) like here:

   http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/mexicansugarskull/

   looking up Mexican Day of the Dead sugar skulls pulls up lots of choices.

   They’re fun.

3. Paula Helm Murray Says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

   AND I’m sure the wax paper will do no harm. She may have very colorful poop for a few days. I learned quickly to tell moms who bought my cookie monster cake that if there was a frosting eater their poo would come out blue-green.

   A dear friend’s dog ate a bag of Easter Hershey kisses. She said the yard was glittery all summer…

4. Madeleine Robins Says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

   I’m in San Francisco, and I’m sure I can find some of this stuff in the Mission, I just have to find out where!

5. Sean Craven Says:
   August 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   Hmmmmm.

   How difficult would it be to make your own molds? Is there any way you could buy whatever little plastic macabretoys you like and cast them?

   Or even use real bones. Chicken skulls!

6. James Hollaman Says:
   August 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

   there use to be a death web site that sold coffin shaped candy molds. (can’t seem to find them right now either)

7. Madeleine Robins Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 12:44 am

   Hey! Tonight my teacher told me that she just got in brain molds!

8. Morgan J. Locke Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 7:17 am

   So cool! I can hardly wait to see the pix.

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