Luvs, if you are going to hang these on a tree I would stick with the half styrofoam ball, coat it with gesso and use dimensional paint for decorating, I agree that plaster would be heavey, This might sound crazy but if you have old candles laying around you can melt them and whip the wax to use as a frosting over the half ball, you can melt crayons for color shake cake sprinkles over warm wax ( I did this and made sugar cookies ) you could dip the ball in wax if you didnt want to beat it, dimanod dust would look like sugar, the wax might be to heavey also, if you are seting them on a plate it wouldnt matter what you use, sandi idea sound good also, now you know you will have to let us know what you used and photos please! Happy Crafting oddie

Hmmm. Even The Princess, who is the pickiest eater in the world, will eat carrot cupcakes. She even knows there are carrots in there and she still eats them. She won't eat pineapple though, and so I have to leave the pineapple out of the carrot cake. Georgysmom is right, they'd rather have candy, so buy a bag of M&Ms or Hershey's and make the kids happy. No Snickers or Reeses, though, there's that pesky peanut thing going on. Actually, cookies and cupcakes get too beaten up on the trip to school, unless you're going to deliver them personally. The Princess likes to make her own "trail mix" with raisins and M&Ms and chocolate Cheerios, no nuts, package them into little snack bags and it's ready to go. If there isn't a peanut butter issue, she also really likes to take the rice krispie treats made with peanut butter with the chocolate topping, although we've managed to get away with making them with Cocoa Krispies and peanut butter and pressing a few M&Ms on the top and so there isn't the problem of melting chocolate if it's hot. Both the grandkids also like to take those rice krispie treats, make them into balls and roll them in sprinkles, or cut the treats into shapes with cookie cutters. Annie

David - I will email the particulars, but I will be in your neighborhood in Oct of this year..... and we can make more in person while we sip some CR! And thanks everyone.... they really are fun to make! Alexa

I cannot believe I went on this long without taking the time to search online why this was happening! I'm so glad to see i'm not crazy and losing my touch! I also never had issues previously with liners peeling! Now, depending on how moist my recipe is (chocolate that was a syrup plus a ganache filling is the key star over here!!!) the liners peels off mid way between taking them off to being put in a tupperware. NO MORE tupperware for me neither, they are a disaster for my liners. After reading these post, i ran to my cupboard an examined all my liners. The cheap one from the dollar store never peel but are so thin that the edges fold in when you poor the batter so i am finishing those off for some morning blueberry muffins or anything that doesn't leave my house :) The other one, the reynolds foils ones, don't peel off in a matter like the paper ones do as they keep their shape but you can definitely see that they are loose when you pick them up (But at least they stay presentable!). The 3rd ones, my new favourites as they keep their colour and don't ever fold in, ARE WAXED inside!!!! urgggggg I had never ever noticed that after reading this post. PS: they are no longer my favourite :( I have some white restaurant type ones here that don't seem to be waxed inside. I am doing a trial and if this works i guess i will decorate the others by putting the cupcake in a coloured one after baking.... but this is so much nonsense! I wish this wasn't such an issue! Thank you everyone for posting this... it will save me hour of waisted work as i cannot send these out to customers like this!!!