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October 2013: \u00a0This project was one of those that continued to morph well beyond my initial plan, even as I was putting it all together the last day. I knew I wanted a gum ball tree with a swing, and I knew I wanted a chocolate waterfall that created a\u00a0chocolate lake. \u00a0 The mountain and tree are molded from\u00a0Rice-Krispies Treats mixture. Once it hardened, I covered everything in fondant. \u00a0Originally, my plan was to create the colorful walking path and intersperse the individual cupcakes on the white areas. But then….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I decided that I didn’t want just the white background for my cupcakes, so I thought I would find a way to make the base green, like grass. I decided on crushed up green candies, but since I had to buy bags of multicolored candies, my idea morphed into a much more psychedelic experience than I had planned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s a not so great photo of my all edible Candyland. I had a hard time trying to get the best angle to capture\u00a0it all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All of the candies & treats on the cupcakes are made of fondant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I decided to add a mermaid diving into the chocolate lake. Her tail is adorned with slivers of jellybeans, and the splash is made of \u00a0hardened chocolate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The chocolate bars are made of fondant and stamped with my daughter’s initials. I did re-use a Ghirardelli chocolate bar wrapper to wrap my fake bars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The gum balls are real gum balls. Originally, I was going to make all of the gum balls\u00a0out of fondant, but I decided that real gum balls would be way more \u00a0visually appealing and exciting. \u00a0 I also had planned to make a fondant person sitting on the swing, but my daughter thought it would better if we used the playing pieces from the Candyland game to really hammer the theme home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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