Paschkis invents animals, vegetables and minerals as she goes -- a wild pig-rat grabs at a child's candy; bat-wing children fly among little girls harnessed to geese; on one page, you meet a carrot-headed dog, a child made of peas and a turnip dancing in its nightgown.
The fondant bats can be substituted with black candy bats if you can find some.
Another alternative to fondant or candy bats is to simply pipe bat shapes onto the top of the first layer of frosting.
NostalgicCandy.com sells baskets ("Disco 70's Assortment," 40 pieces for $28), cases (24 Charleston Chews for $20) and individual candies (BB Bat suckers, 30 cents each).
A FEW weeks ago, when the Mets were playing with sieves for gloves and cotton candy for bats, and in the field falling over themselves and each other, and on the basepaths -- when they were so fortunate to find themselves there -- tripping on the base sacks, a sportswriter ran into Bobby Valentine.
In a Halloween ad from Atomic Candy in Denton, Texas, a baseball bat-wielding clown makes a trembling donkey pinata poop in terror.
Other themes for great decorations include bats, black cats, coffins, masks, candy corn, snakes, mummies, eyeballs and toenails, cobwebs, rats, owls, vampires, broomsticks, etc.
"If you use candy, kids get the idea right off the bat".
He kept a baseball bat behind the register, where I dispensed jerky sticks and candy bars and took money after people pumped unleaded.
It's entertaining and novel enough that most kids would probably forgive you for your lack of candy, so it's a money-saver for you right off the bat.
We included euros instead of dollars, and the bat and the ball were changed to a chocolate bar and a piece of candy.
