Modeling Chocolate and Mickey Mouse

I'm working on the design for a Super Mario Bros. cake for the upcoming birthday party. Last year I used Duff Goldman's fondant for the black part of the Mickey Mouse cake and modeling chocolate for the red part. Duff's fondant is the best tasting fondant I've ever tasted, but the modeling chocolate was even better, so I think I will stick with it again this year. The recipe is simple and the color can be any color you find Wilton candy. Here's the ingredients from the Wilton website

• 1 bag of candy melts
• 1/4 cup of light corn syrup

Melt the candy melts, add corn syrup and stir. I then put the mixture into cake pan with wax paper overlapping the sides and let sit out overnight. The next day I broke off a piece and kneaded it together. Once that piece was soft, I kept adding more to it until I finally had a ball that was easily pliable. On your surface, spread out cornstarch or I've heard powdered sugar works as well to prevent sticking. I rolled it out to 1/8 inch thick and larger than my cake piece that I needed to cover.  I then formed it tight against the sides and bottom of the cake.  I used a knife to cut away the extra pieces and then smoothed out other spots with my fingers.
And here was the result:

I just thought I would pass this along to encourage others to try it out too!

Amy