Monday, October 31, 2011

My First All Edible Candy Land


Over the past month I think I have played Candy Land with Mac about a zillion times. Boy loves his Candy Land. Then awhile back he said "we should make a Candy Land that you can eat" and I said "sure buddy" and then I started thinking...could I actually make an edible Candy Land? I decided I would go for it and try to make it as close as I could to the board game version we have. So over the past three days I have been baking and icing and I'm pretty sure I'm literally candied now. It's hard not to lick your fingers and take a little taste here and there, right?! For the final day of Vegan MoFo, my biggest challenge yet and here's the final product...


Here's a few close up shots...don't want you to miss all that detail I went to so much trouble to put in there. And you will notice, I paid attention during Top Chef Just Desserts and I didn't forget the back so it's a full panorama experience!












At the end of all of that...I made 12 batches of vanilla cake using the cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, I used almost 4 kg of icing sugar, 1 bag of Dandies, 3 packages of Earth Balance Shortening, 3 packages of Earth Balance Buttery Sticks, 21 ice cream cones, 3 bags of jelly beans, 1 bag of Enjoy Life Brand Chocolate Chunks, almost all of my natural food colouring, 1/2 a tube of marzipan, 1 recipe of gingerbread and about all of my patience and creativity! I'm drained but it is so worth it seeing it all finished and seeing how happy Mac is to see it "in real life" as he said. My personal favourites are Chocolate Mountain, which is made of Dandies treats, covered in Chocolate Chunks then I poured melted chocolate over top of those to get some real texture to it to make it look all craggy like the one in the game and I love the Ice Palace (mostly because I had no idea what I was going to do to make it just this morning and some how I pulled it out by custom made gingerbread and icing). Now I'm off to enjoy what's left of Halloween with my family and hopefully we will get a few trick or treaters!

Thanks to everyone who has read my posts over MoFo, I'm so happy somebody is reading this! I hope you stick around, I have lots more to share and now that I have finished this big project, it's back to recipe testing and more!!

20 comments:

  1. You did it! In all it's glory....so incredible!

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  2. Wow!! That is crazy impressive!! Amazing job!! You have a very lucky family. :)

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  3. I have no words. Only WOW. I'm so super impressed with this! The amount of time and effort...and it's beautiful...and I want to live there...and I cannot believe you did this!!!

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  4. best mom on the planet award, coming up. this is awesome, Kelly!

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  5. this is just whoa e o e oh!!!
    nice job!!!

    xo
    kittee

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  6. I commented on the MoFo round up, but gonna say the same again here... A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! Inspired me to try something as epic for my daughter's third birthday in May! Let the planning begin!

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  7. Oh my goodness! That's amazing! I love it! You're a hero, I had enough issues just making a gingerbread house!

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  8. Wow wow wow. That's amazing! Well done!

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  9. That is amazing! It makes me think of the top chef desserts where they did the Willy Wonka theme. Great imagination!

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  10. this is AMAZING. seriously. AMAZING.

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  11. Holy Wow! This is totally breathtaking. What a glorious acheivment! My little nephew also used to be obsessed with Candy Land, but then he would get totally upset when he lost. Poor little guy. I have a really cute old fashioned version, in a pretty little tin. I love it.

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  12. This is so amazing!

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  13. Spectacular! O_O

    Katie!

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  14. my mouth is watering! This is amazing!

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  15. So cool! I wish I had the space in my house to do this! :D

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