Battle of Helms Deep
This person was crafty enough to create a scale replica of the Battle of Minas Tirith… in candy. The whole thing was constructed out of cardboard, glue, icing and candy. It clocked in at about 7 feet long by 3 feet deep by 2 feet tall. They used over 500 Gummy Bears as orcs and Uruk-Hai. The Elves, Dwarves and Men were represented by sour patch kids. Most of these were of course corpses. The Catapults were Tootsie pops. Leaning against the Jolly Rancher wall is a siege tower made of other tootsie type stuff. There are some red licorice ropes as rope. Up the carefully crafted stairs of Starburst candies, and piles of dead men and elves that are covered in the sweetest candy blood they could find (red Nerds and more licorice rope).
This is definitely the second coolest thing I ever saw in my life, the first still being the Super Mario wedding cake. I wonder if there are any bakeries in Amman clever enough to craft that in reasonable prices…
Farah
January 15, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
haha thats awesome! did u eat it afterwards?
(my antispam word was joy:)
kinzi
January 15, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
Woman after my own heart: LOTR candy (although I think this shot is of Helm’s Deep).
We could try it next year, using those funny Cat’s Tongue Galler chocolates as the Urukai. (I’m sure Hala would donate 5,000). We could make it a Blogger/Ginger Bread House Project of Minas Tirith, then raffle it off and donate the proceeds to Ruwwad or something.
That blogger found a bunch of soul-mates through this one!
ziad d
January 15, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
I can recognaize Chupa Chips, and gummy bears :) (I think!)
Simon Columbus
January 15, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Sweet :D
kinzi
January 15, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
Roba, there is a lady in Amman that does award winning custom cakes, I just can’t remember her name….pre-senior moment. I’ll let you if I can come up with it.
Nas
January 16, 2008 @ 3:47 am
talk about eye candy for LOTR fans.
i wonder what they would’ve used for the glittering caves!