Need advice about decorating a Hallow cake - I've attached a picture

If there's a Mexican shop around, you could get sugar skulls, too.

Those are used in celebration of Day of the Dead, right? The scale might not be right, though.

 
Here is info on making spun sugar....

Check the link below.
I remember making this years ago, after watching Julia Child making a spun sugar cage for a cake. I HAD to try it!
I had such fun with it, and the results were amazingly good.
I have not done anything like it since. (some things I do just to prove to myself that they can be done)

http://www.cooksrecipes.com/candy/spun_sugar_recipe.html

 
Same humidity issue with spun sugar. If it's dry and cool, this would work beautifully....

however, if there is humidity in the air, spun sugar will end up as sticky, clumpy thick strands.

Can you note the tone of bitter experience in my voice?

 
By the way, judy...if you decide to give it a whirl again...try MS's microwave

version. Put sugar and karo (?) in a Pyrex cup, pop it in the microwave and when it changes color, spin it out.

With paper covering the floor, I stood on a ladder to get height, used a cheap whisk snipped apart and opened, and drizzled the sugar over huge knitting needles tapped to the counter. Ended up with 4 foot long strands that I loosely wrapped and wrapped around an 18" tower of cream puffs.

It looked fabulous....for all of one hour. Then it morphed into one clammy, sticky mass.

Did I mention it was raining?

 
Oh I make cookies, just don't usually buy them. The windmill cookies - I found some at

our local Wegmans (they have everything!) and they would be great if I decide to go for a rectangular headstone.

 
Too cute! I did find some Jelly Belly pebbles in the bulk food dept. and

bought just a handful... many, this cake is costing much worth than it will sell for, but I am also making another one for us, seeing that I have all the supplies now.

 
Thanks Ang. Yeah, I am thinking about them, but given the peanut butter, I

think I may not go that route (it's for a bake sale). Thanks though!

 
Wonderful idea... I had no idea it was so easy to make. I like the cotton candy

idea too - decision, decisions!

 
Yes, I have a lot of "props" - our local Walmart even GAVE me some confetti

leaves. I had asked one of the bakers where I could buy some autumn confetti leaves like she had on one of their prepared cakes, and when I explained what I was doing with them (a bake sale for the library) she gave me a couple of tablespoons of them.

 
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