After four years of college I have found myself back at my parents' house for a month with no job. So what better way to spend my time than eating, napping, and making a monster sized Sour Patch Kid?!

First I made a positive mold out of air-drying clay. This is what I hoped the final product would look like:

Then I mixed up some Plaster of Paris to make the negative mold and poured it over the clay man.

I let the mold sit for 24 hours-- here is the finished mold covered in plastic wrap to keep the candy from getting gross:

I found a recipe for gumdrops that used fruit pectin as a gelling agent. Here are the ingredients, and please ignore the very, very dirty wall behind them…