Reddit user IHaveAFluffyCat wanted to do something special this holiday season. She decided to recreate Adventure Time’s Candy Kingdom using actual candy. It took 30 hours over the course of a week, and she’s not even planning on eating it. She just wants one weekend to admire her creation, and then she’ll let others have a go at it.

Her first step was to buy a bunch of candy. She estimated the total cost of ingredients to be $108 CAD.

She tried out a few techniques along the way. This glass sugar is supposed to be purple and round for the Candy Guardian’s head.

She got it right by melting isomalt crystals and adding a touch of food coloring.

She poured it into a silicone ball meant to make ice cubes.

After about 10 minutes in

the refrigerator, the outside of the sphere had cooled and hardened enough to work with. She drained out the inside, which was still liquid, to get a hollow ball.

She used a lighter to melt away imperfections, leaving her with a translucent, edible ball.

Here’s where it gets really tough.

She pulled out some styrofoam and cut it into a mold for the round gingerbread walls.

With a username like IHaveAFluffyCat, she had to include a cat photo.

Here’s the final styrofoam mold, one of three.

She mixed the first of four batches of gingerbread dough, which looks gooey and delicious already.

She rolled out the dough, and then used stencils to cut out various parts of the scene.

To get the right shape, she had to bake each piece first.

And then put it onto the rounded mold.

Here are stencils for a drawbridge and a leg.

Baking in the oven.

The pieces expanded during baking.

So she grabbed a knife and recut all the baked gingerbread.

She glued the guardians’ bodies together using melted sugar.

Round walls are coming together.

This is a cupcake roof.

It was made using the outside of a bowl.

The centerpiece is coming together with a lot of sugar glue.

Here’s the internal support system. Not so pretty but still probably tasty.

The scene is starting to come together.

Now it has a few more pieces.

She linked together some Airheads.

These became cascading waterfalls.

She added icing to decorate the kingdom, didn’t like it and scraped it all off.

She used fondant on her second attempt, which worked like a charm.

This is the beginning of a tower.

Adding a layer of fondant.

Now it’s ready to go onto the castle.

She melted yellow and green chocolate wafers.

Then she used the goo to make grass.

Everything seems to be coming together.

Putting the finishing touches on the guardians. She dropped one of the heads, but realized she could repair it by melting it back together with a lighter.

Here are the guardians’ bubble wands, made out of leftover melted sugar.

Then she made the tree using melted sugar and cotton candy, with a little pink pearl dust sprinkled on top.

Finally, the marvelous finished product. This picture’s complete with a Christmas scene and a fluffy cat in the background. I’ll assume the human is her husband.

The creator wrote she plans to enjoy the Candy Kingdom for a weekend and then have her husband bring it to work for his coworkers to eat.

I think she just doesn’t want to see her baby get destroyed.