Fun With Food by Jellybean of Thark, Lincøln, K, river
May 10th, 2008 12:19 AM / Location: 34.124324,-118.1796This is (most) all of the materials we used in the making of the game:
There was a consensus to start the project off by laying out the Starburst® trail on a large surface to see just how big the game board would be.
Then, after measuring the size of the projected board, we baked three and a third cakes, and these were the biggest cakes I've ever baked before. Just one was big, but putting all of them together was making a veritable giant cake. River did all of the mixing and baking.
Although The K helped out a bit.
Then all that was left to do was assemble the thing. A few photos were taken at this stage. They are here:
Then the game was complete!
Then we invited our dear friend C.M. to come and play the finished product.
But first we made him help us make the cards.
Then we played. I video taped all 21 minutes of the game, but cannot figure out a way to get the video off of my camera let alone onto this interweb page. So here's a snippet of poor quality audio of the game.
It should be noted that The K won the game. By a lot.
When it came time to eat the game after it had served it's purpose and we sucked every last bit of fun out of it, we started off timidly.
But then it came time to really go at it and show that candy who was boss.
It wasn't pretty gingerbread men lost their heads. It was a massacre.
After the first volley the terrain was in ruins.
After the next few assaults, nothing was left except for scorched earth.
Until there was hardly anything left at all.
Candyland!
This is the game board we made.
Original board game
The layout
We had to lay out all of the game squares to see how big the board needed to be.
Mixing the cake.
River did most of the preparation.
K helped too.
Cakes baked
Three and a third cakes baked and laid out on wax paper.
Step 2
Frosted and the tiles starting to go on.
Step 3
The chocolate swamp in place and the last of the tiles done.
Step 4
The Gingerbread Plum Tree taking shape.
Step 5
The gumdrop mountains and the hearts in place and the lawn for the Lollypop woods is in.
Step 6
The candycane forest is set as are the Lollypops. The cake was too thin to support the candycanes and lollypops, so we had to put raw cookie dough under the game board in those two locations so they had something to stick into.
Step 7
Everything in place.
Step 8
The cookie playing pieces are in.
Cookie playing pieces
Ready to be baked.
The boy and girl
running off to play Candyland!
Close-up of the Candy Heart Field
Close-up of the Candycane Forest
Close-up of the Gingerbread Plum Tree
Close-up of the Gumdrop Mountains
Close-up of the Peanut Brittle House
Close-up of the Lollypop Woods
Close-up of the Chocolate Swamp.
Close-up of the Gingerbread House
Close-up of the Playing pieces
Cake Mix
For the cakes
Frosting
To cover the cake.
Sweethearts
Chocolate for the swamp.
Pre-melting.
Sweet Factory goods
We got a lot of candy from the Sweet Factory. Including the gumdrops and green sour strips we used for leaves and the red things we used to decorate the gingerbread house.
Rainbow Twizzlers
Used for the Rainbow Bridge and the Gumdrop Mountain Pass.
Chocolate Graham Crackers
Used for the gingerbread house.
Honey Graham Crackers
Used for the peanut brittle house.
Peanuts
Used for the peanut brittle house.
M&Ms
For the grass and such.
M&Ms
We used two different colors of green. Because.
Sprinkles
Used to make the little boy and girl.
Starburst
For the game tiles.
Lolli Pops
Used for the lollypop forest.
C.M. arrives
He helped us make the game cards and play test the game.
All of us
We're making the game cards.
Candyland being played
You will hear the voices of Lincoln, C.M. River, and K. I know the quality is the worst ever. But since I couldn't get the video off of my camera, this is all you get.
Lincoln Adjusts the Lollypop Woods
Jumping Jacks!
Close up of the mans we used to play.
Candy Cane Forest
The garden path to the Gingerbread House
The little white kids from the board.
Rainbow Bridge and Peanut Brittle House
Another lovely day in the nicest smelling suburb in all of Parker Brothers Acres.
Close up of the one of the cards that C.M. made.
This one shows one orange square.
Another card that C.M. made.
This one a location card and the location it sends you to. Note the fine, old-world craftsmanship.
The K
Getting ready to seriously school us.
It started innocently enough...
A piece here, a piece there...
Sucking on a lollipop
Dipping a lollipop in frosting
Then came the real damage.
Lincolnzilla!
The aftermath
Nom nom nom
Giant Lincoln!
Slowly the game got picked at.
Lincolnzilla will destroy your tiny candy habitats!
Not as good as burninating thatched roof cottages, I know, but we do what we can.
Picking off straglers
Worse than a tornado
Decapitated gingerbread man.
Lincoln's brother goes after a lollipop.
Somebody's eaten half of the chocolate swamp!
Destruction at ground zero
After the first salvo.
A hole in the roof.
The devastation is nearly complete.
Layer Cake
I folded it up for transport.
Last man standing.
57 vote(s)
- Lank
- anna one
- GYØ Ben
- Myrna Minx
- done
- Loki
- Optical Dave
- Herbie Hatman
- Scarlett
- Haberley Mead
- SNORLAX
- teucer
- Askew.
- help im a bear
- Evil Sugar
- Ink Tea
- Vena Nightmare
- Figment Lattery
- JTony Loves Brains
- zer0gee
- Not Here No More
- Adam
- Darkaardvark
- Dela Dejavoo
- Julian Muffinbot
- .thatskarobot
- Rather Dashing
- Metsuki
- The Animus
- steve rules
- JK Bobbins
- Minch
- Rainy
- rongo rongo
- Beta Orionis
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- GYØ Daryl
- Encore Music Exit
- Zoo Babies Pet Animals
- Super Fly
- susy derkins
- lefthandedsnail
- Pip Estrelle
- Crazy Child
- Xena
- Pamda Bhaer
- Ben Yamiin
- Edison Small
- Piscean Electron
- Augustus deCorbeau
- MsGoblinPants Extraordinaire
- Amoeba Man
- Bastard
- gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing
- Bex.
- Roberto Romero
- V M
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If there's one thing I like, it's close up macro photography of food. That is what you will find I have added.
Yes. Did you hear about Mortimer Snerd?
This is unutterably charming.
I am so hungry. And charmed.
Dude. Sweet.
Candyland is my favorite game. I'm just sitting here going yuuuuum!
I can't imagine a better completion of this task. Hooray! (Also, hooray for macro food pictures.)
I want you to document the eating! Please!
Eat it!
We're going to eat it today. We shall document.
hooray!
I already know that this is gonna be my favorite part of the task!
Please document detailed!!!
Also, please document your dentistry bills! Honestly, it reminds me of my youth, and the stomach aches we'd get eating sweets and watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
You made me drop jaw.
I can't think of anything to say, other than congratulations. This was a great completion.
freaking epic!
lincoln, the good ideas factory called. They're running out of you. =O
UPDATE!
We ate the game. It was delicious.
(River ate none of it. She claimed the smell of all of that vanilla cake and frosting made her sick from the beginning, and sampling the candy during it's construction left her feeling like if she never tasted another piece of candy again, that'd be OK. K and Lincoln do not share this opinion)
We ate about half of the candy, and about a sixteenth of the cake. I bagged everything that wasn't eaten and brought it home because the dining room table had to be used for dining once again. I will eat it all eventually. But right now I feel very very sick. I feel like there is sugar behind my eyes and in the back of my throat crawling up my nose.
I want to vote *again*. In large part for the Trogdor reference.
I'd vote again for the last photo alone.
That's not to say that burnination ain't voteworthy.
The construction is top notch but the destruction/consumption makes it even more special.
Topping the list of things that I have learned about myself in my first few days here: I like step by step photos. A lot.
It's like an improvisational comic book or an instruction manual for awesome.
Freakin' amazing. Also, I really want some candy now. Mmmmm sugary goodness
I really love this. My paper/cardboard/plastic Candyland set seems so incredibly dull now.
Wow.