I made candy Gastly for Halloween! I had so much fun making my Pokemon GO Candy last month that I wanted to see what else I could do with the concept. I did some brainstorming, and was so excited when I thought of this!

I’m really proud of the results. Details on how I made them below!



I made their bodies using a cake pop mold like last time, melting down milk chocolate in the microwave and scraping it along the insides of the half-spheres, chilling it in the fridge between coats. I then popped them out and heated up a metal frying pan. I took the pan off the heat and placed each half sphere on it, edge-side down, to melt the edges. This made it very easy to join each half-sphere, and the results look a lot more seamless.

For the eyes, I used white Wilton Candy Melt chocolate, which are little round disks. I levelled the non-flat side, making them more flat, and cut each disk in half to get a single pair of eyes, creating that sinister look. I added the pupils using edible food markers. I then melted the white Candy Melts in the microwave, put it in a Ziplock bag, used that as glue to attach the eyes to the bodies, and made little triangles on parchment paper to create teeth! While they dried, I melted and dyed some white Candy Melts pink/purple for the mouths, and used a toothpick to draw them on, and attached the teeth before it dried.



The most important part was the purple, gassy haze, and I knew cotton candy would be perfect for that! It was surprisingly difficult to find any cotton candy in my city, forget finding it in purple! In the end I went to a specialty candy store and got them to make some freshly-spun purple cotton candy. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth it!



The teeth were definitely the hardest part since they’re so tiny and delicate. There were a couple breaks by the end of my photo shoot! I accidentally put the teeth on at totally different angles on the Gastly on the left, so I’ve nicknamed that one Undyne, haha.