Candy Spam!

[dawn_felagund]

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):

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Candy baskets are great! They're not exceedingly expensive to make but they look awesome. The basket in the picture costs about $5 to put together (including candy). On the other hand, a plain white box with two liners is about three...but not nearly as impressive a presentation.

And yay for supporting your local confectioner! :^D

[frenchpony.livejournal.com]

I have not yet supported the local confectioner (since I wrote you last), but should any money remain from supporting my local co-op-natural-women's-health-granola-oriented-community pharmacy (for a thing of deodorant) and my local el cheapo clothing store (for a pair of pants), I will blow the rest of my wad on local confectionary.

Mmmm, candy. Does Nelyo's have a website yet?

[dawn_felagund]

I've done the CSS layout and so really just have to finish tinkering with the looks of things, get my friend to help me with some Photoshop magic (buying him dinner should pay for an afternoon of that!), and get the domain name and we will have something of a website!

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. ;)