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dawn_felagund) wrote2006-05-06 11:52 pm
dawn_felagund) wrote2006-05-06 11:52 pm
Candy Spam!
Here are the latest projects on which I've been working for the past few days. I got an order earlier this week from my coworker to make a Mother's Day basket for his mom-in-law, so I've been busy this week with that. I bought some new molds and really got to experiment with my mold painters, with pleasing results.
For Easter, I made a sorbet pie that was chocolate sorbet layered over raspberry sorbet with a chocolate graham cracker crust. For decoration, I used a parade of chocolate ladybugs filled with chocolate rum sauce. (They were yummy!)
For my sister--who does not like raspberry and is straight-edge and so avoids alcohol--I made a mini-pie with chocolate sorbet over chocolate graham cracker crust. Her ladybugs were filled with plain chocolate sauce, which unfortunately froze solid. (But it's the thought that counts, right? :^D)
For Mother's Day, I treated myself to some new molds. I didn't really like the Mother's Day molds they had, so I went more for a summer theme. Here is a sampling of the results.
Butterflies and snails; the snail shells require a bit more practice:
Butterflies and mushrooms that came out with very pretty (i.e. colorful) results:
And my personal favorites: the happy daisies! It often happens that the simplest designs turn out the best. These are the easiest to make but ended up with a very clean look, imho, compared to the others. But the leaves allowed a bit of experimentation with two colors of green chocolate, making things a bit more intricate.
All of this--along with about two dozen filled candies--I put together into the final project. The basket was prettied up with some checkered ribbon, some silk flowers, and a cream-colored cloth napkin (that came from Target...shhhh....) I was hoping to go for a summery, picnic idea. The first shows the detail of the basket decoration better:
While the second shows the finished presentation of the candy, with all the plain, boring ones hidden beneath:
And for you Feanatics out there, a special treat: a star of Feanor, done with fire coloration. (I'm going to try to blend the colors better next time, but this time, I simply wasn't brave enough):
For Easter, I made a sorbet pie that was chocolate sorbet layered over raspberry sorbet with a chocolate graham cracker crust. For decoration, I used a parade of chocolate ladybugs filled with chocolate rum sauce. (They were yummy!)
For my sister--who does not like raspberry and is straight-edge and so avoids alcohol--I made a mini-pie with chocolate sorbet over chocolate graham cracker crust. Her ladybugs were filled with plain chocolate sauce, which unfortunately froze solid. (But it's the thought that counts, right? :^D)
For Mother's Day, I treated myself to some new molds. I didn't really like the Mother's Day molds they had, so I went more for a summer theme. Here is a sampling of the results.
Butterflies and snails; the snail shells require a bit more practice:
Butterflies and mushrooms that came out with very pretty (i.e. colorful) results:
And my personal favorites: the happy daisies! It often happens that the simplest designs turn out the best. These are the easiest to make but ended up with a very clean look, imho, compared to the others. But the leaves allowed a bit of experimentation with two colors of green chocolate, making things a bit more intricate.
All of this--along with about two dozen filled candies--I put together into the final project. The basket was prettied up with some checkered ribbon, some silk flowers, and a cream-colored cloth napkin (that came from Target...shhhh....) I was hoping to go for a summery, picnic idea. The first shows the detail of the basket decoration better:
While the second shows the finished presentation of the candy, with all the plain, boring ones hidden beneath:
And for you Feanatics out there, a special treat: a star of Feanor, done with fire coloration. (I'm going to try to blend the colors better next time, but this time, I simply wasn't brave enough):
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It all looks beautiful and delicious, and *SQUEE* for the Feanor-star! :-D You're pretty much amazing, that's what I say.
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My mom would totally love the parade of ladybugs. ^_^
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(You'll get the star of Feanor, btw. ;^D)
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*squees over Feanor's star*
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(Btw, I'll keep stars of Feanor in mind for *someone's* birthday.... ;^D)
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Life size, naturally...
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*drools a bit*
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But I'm told that they taste good. ;)
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*mega-squee*
Is there a way to colour it silvery-grey? (Or maybe white if it's not possible) just so it looks more like the emblem?
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I certainly have white chocolate available to me. (I just happen to be out of it at the moment which is why you don't see any! :^D) I really want a mold of just 8-point stars so that I can do all sorts of Stars of Feanor, but the mold I have is a Christmas mold and has just one. Boo.
One of the things I've entertained the idea of doing are the Elven crests in chocolate. That would take a while but would look really cool, I think.
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And yay for supporting your local confectioner! :^D
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Mmmm, candy. Does Nelyo's have a website yet?
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I'm buying webspace and domain names for all of my various interests when I get back from Puerto Rico, probably in July. Don't worry, it'll be the squee heard around the flist when I do. ;)
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Is that all chocolate? And how do you make the pretty colours?
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The Star of Feanor is supposed to be a Christmas star, but we all know better.... ;)
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I still need an entire sheet of Stars of Feanor so that I don't have to make them one by one. That will make it easier for fangurls to order them in bulk once Nelyo's is officially online. ;)
And thank you! :^D
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Once you get a sheet, I am going to order 10 of them! (But only eat like 2!) :)
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Btw, I am NOT waiting any longer for you to get PayPal! I sent off a cheque and some other stuff to you on Friday via Snail Mail. Eru knows when you'll get it, though.
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(In my defense, it was very late and I had to get up early for skating practice the next morning.)
If I fail at a businesswoman, it will be because of my apathy and general ineptitude. (Although Bobby makes up for me in these regards.)
Well, anyway, thank you. :) I will let you know when I get it. (And also when I set up PayPal so that you can laugh at how long it took me.... :^/)
Oh! While talking about snailmail, Bobby and I will return Lost to you soon. We're addicted, and I don't imagine it will take us long now to finish it. We watched two last night and are planning at least one more tonight.
Btw, your bday order is already taken care of.... ;)
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You don't have to rush with LOST. My sister also has the DVD package and I can always borrow hers if I need to check something out again, especially in view of this season's shockers.
How can my b'day already be taken care of when it's, like, 4 months away???
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And the star... Well, whould you believed that Feanor squeed in the most girly and undignified manner when he saw it? Loved it!
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Thank you! I've actually had people in the past not want to eat the candy I made them because it looks "too pretty," they said. This was back in the olden days when I used to paint the molds with paintbrushes, which took about three times as long as the way I do it now, so it literally took hours to finish...I was a bit ticked that it would end up at the bottom of a garbage can after all that! :^P