is there a diffrent way to make the blood efect like the one on this cake withouth using candy melts?

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Thanks for your help!!

If you don't mind a bit more gooey blood use corn syrup, red food coloring and a wee little bit of hershey's chocolate syrup.... used in the movies for blood too!

yes, you could us a glaze, using powder sugar, milk,etc. Karenscookies.net has a good tasting one for her cookies. I make it when i make cookies. hth

I used red gel-dyed piping gel for the blood on my sword cake (in my photos.) Although this might be too runny for this purpose. Americolor SuperRed dye will make a nice deep blood red. Maybe just dye your buttercream red and thin it out with a little water and drip it on. HTH.

Thanks ladies for your great ideas!!!