{"id":3003,"date":"2009-04-06T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2009-04-03T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:29:48","slug":"sugar-skull-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3003","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Skull Easter Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/skullegg-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"Skull Egg\" title=\"Skull Egg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Reign Trading, which sells Mexican sugar skull molds and supplies, has posted some very cool ideas for making panoramic Easter eggs decorated like calaveras.  Their tutorial is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicancalendargirl.com\/1-EmailWork\/Retail\/April2-2009\/RetailFinal4-2-09.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t sell the egg molds, but they&#8217;re easy to find at cake-supply and hobby shops or <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LB-Easter-Candy-Mold-chocolate\/dp\/B000EABXMK\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;s=home-garden&#038;qid=1238763446&#038;sr=1-3\">online<\/a>.  If you don&#8217;t feel like digging around the site, their recipes for sugar skull mix and royal icing are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicansugarskull.com\/mexicansugarskull\/Recipe.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love the way they&#8217;ve detailed their eggs, using little folk art skeletons for the &#8220;surprise inside&#8221; and adding handmade Mexican roses and mini-sugar skulls on the top.  I also really like the bright colors and &#8220;we&#8217;re using skulls but it&#8217;s perfectly natural&#8221; vibe of these eggs (although I like the idea of a black-and-scarlet egg with a graveyard scene inside too).  Once dry the eggs will last for years, so you could make a tradition out of decorating a different egg every year and adding it to your collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reign Trading, which sells Mexican sugar skull molds and supplies, has posted some very cool ideas for making panoramic Easter eggs decorated like calaveras. Their tutorial is here. They don&#8217;t sell the egg molds, but they&#8217;re easy to find at cake-supply and hobby shops or online. If you don&#8217;t feel like digging around the site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}