You'll need to pick up a couple of custom supplies for making hard candy. First, you'll need some hard candy molds, designed specifically for use with hard candy. Do not use chocolate molds, cheap plastic, or anything that's not made to withstand the high temperature of the sugar syru...
It really was easy to "assemble" and the cake balls felt really secure on the cake (more than I expected). I wasn't sure what the plan was for the top of the cake, so at the end I used some toothpicks to put a few balls together as a topper - just to give it a finished lo...