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If I Only Had A Brain (Mold)

October 29, 2010 By radmegan 11 Comments

I bought a plastic brain-shaped mold at a grocery store in Solvang for $4.99. “What a tremendous deal,” I stupidly thought. “There are SO MANY occasions in which I find myself thinking, “if only this food were brain-shaped.”” Ok, I haven’t uttered those exact words, but I did see the mold as a gateway to new crafts and possibilities. I have exactly no experience with Jell-O molds beyond eating up their contents at family picnics and holiday work parties. 
Not a Smart Combo
My first attempt at mastering the mold was doomed from the start. I found Oreo Cookies and Cream pudding at my local market and had visions of serving up gray matter for dessert. As my husband so eloquently put it, “Megan, pudding is pudding. Not Jell-O” Why I thought a Jell-O product would work in a mold, I guess I’ll never know. But as many of you may have already realized, pudding, as my husband says, is in fact pudding. It never really hardens, or takes on the shape of anything. It is tasty, but also limp and sloppy, and stays that way in a mold. 
SORT of What I was going for
My next attempt at salvaging a Halloween dessert that would delight and horrify needed a hard shell to keep everything in place. While I don’t detest white chocolate like some people I know (I’m looking at you Jessica), I’m not really crazy about it either. For the perfect bone-colored exterior to my bright red and gelatinous brainy middle, I knew white chocolate was my guy. I proceeded to melt and pour and set and mix and stir until I thought I had the perfect recipe for what I was going to call Red Brains and Skull. 
Shattered
The only problem was that the white chocolate broke when I tried to un-mold it. It broke over and over and over again. The red Jell-O center trembled with fear, or simply because it was Jell-O, as I stormed around the kitchen, glaring at my pile of fail. 
Just Plain Gross
Oddly, the Cherry Jell-O interior did hold it’s shape during my little kitchen hissy-fit, and made me think that I could, and WOULD attempt molding deserts again. Perhaps there will be more non-stick spray or butter next time? Perhaps even Saran wrap? If any of you have had luck un-molding chocolate or even pudding(!!), please feel free to share your tips with me as I am obviously not going to be invited to bring my brainy dessert to any picnics or parties at this rate. 


Chalk this one up to a swing and a miss. Happy almost Halloween anyway!

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Filed Under: Crafts, Holiday Tagged With: craft, craft fail, food, Holiday, Jell-O, molds, pudding


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Comments

  1. Jessica Lynn Perkins says

    October 29, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Ha ha! White is the color of Satan’s chocolate! Anyway, I’m so glad you post your craft fails! I mess stuff up all the time, and I know all those craft bloggers out there do too, but they rarely share their failure. It’s nice to remember that everyone is human.

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  2. Sara and Jeff Eaker says

    October 29, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    I agree with Jessica. For once you let us not so crafty people feel like YOU ARE HUMAN. You create magic 99% of the time and I feel like I have a shot if 1% of the time it doesn’t go perfectly, Ms. Stewart!

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  3. Sara and Jeff Eaker says

    October 29, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Why does it say “Sara and Jeff Eaker”? I am an independent woman! Ha.

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  4. radmegan says

    October 29, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Thanks Jessica! I have a whole list of craft fails I haven’t posted yet. You want to know about burnt granola? Popcorn balls that refuse to be shaped into balls? Oh, and then there’s my website re-design.. they all make me appreciate the crafts that DO work. I guess.

    Sara, I like to picture you and Jeff sitting side by side typing together. Don’t shatter the illusion! And you are silly. Do you really need a reminder that I am human? Little miss home-perm and eye-patch?? Mostly mutant actually :)

    <3 Thanks for the encouragement girls!

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  5. Carlos Adelante says

    October 29, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    Perhaps you should make a brain-shaped rice krispy treat! I don’t even know if that’s feasible.

    I like the red brain jell-o. mostly because i like jell-o.

    good attempt!

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  6. radmegan says

    October 29, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    Thanks Murf! I wish you were here to eat up all the red brains in my fridge :)

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  7. Sarah says

    October 29, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    I see a zombie craft theme in here somewhere.

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  8. radmegan says

    October 29, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    Ahhh yes, this would be perfect for a zombie dinner. Well played madam.

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  9. Anonymous says

    October 30, 2010 at 8:26 am

    Perhaps you could just mold jello in the mold. Then purchase a plastic skull, slice off the top and make it like a lid. If you put the molded jello inside you could probably get the desired effect?

    -Krystall

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  10. melissa says

    November 1, 2010 at 8:18 am

    Megan, you are crackin’ me up! I think you were brilliant to think of white chocolate, and the first picture looks very brainy!
    Maybe you could use gelatin but make it with some milk for opaqueness. (that is a word, I looked it up.)

    Thanks for your blog, you always make me smile and I feel like I’m not so far away.

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  11. radmegan says

    November 2, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Thanks for the suggestions Krystall and Melissa. Stay tuned I will not be beaten by this $4.99 piece of plastic! :)

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