First Post of the Day
Me? Like candy and sweets? Surely you jest.
I have been known to eat a maple cake or two (or three),
And I do have an 18th century sugar cone on my shelf.
But after having lost so much weight, I find Breyer's cake, candy, ice cream, and gum horses much "safer" to have in my home. Some are deliberately meant to be an emulation of sweets; others just make me think of food. (A trait I share with Pepper who is very much a food motivated Labrador retriever.)
Here is a look at what I have in my collection.
Ice Cream and Sherbet Horses
Mint Chip
One source calls him a Dessert Decorator while another lists him as part of the Sweet Treats series. He was produced 2025 - 2026. (With that green, I use him as a Halloween decoration, too.)
Neapolitan
A nod to neapolitan ice cream, you can see the chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavors plus she has pearly icing topped with sprinkles. She was produced 2023 - 2024.
Merry Dance
The 2025 Holiday Surprise horse, Merry Dance was not intended to be anything but a holiday decorator. But I see strawberry sherbet
and lime sherbet in these two.
Gum Horses
When I was growing up, most kids constantly chewed gum. Why? No clue, but we did.
Fruit Stripe gum was very popular. (Although I preferred Doublemint.)
So when Christmas Candy, the Zebra in four colors (plus a Coal) was released in 2019, I saw them as Fruit Stripe gum Breyer style.
The same with Short & Sweet, the 2025 Holiday Blind Bags. Gum ponies!
BreyerFest 2024's Better than Revenge is another Gum Pony to me.
Candy & Cake
And then there are the candy and cake horses and ponies.
Kohl was never intended to be anything except a Christmas Pony in the 2022 Holiday Collection. But that blanket sure makes me think of candy canes!
Black Forest is beautiful.
The deep rich colors on him are stand outs. He was made to look like a Black Forest cake, and Breyer succeeded. He is from BreyerFest 2022.
Cupcake
Produced 2019 - 2012, no doubt that Cupcake was emulating food. Glitter and sprinkles, my first through when I saw her was, "Who would buy that??"
Well... me. I actually bought two, one for a Pony Pal and one for me.
Red Velvet was the next cake horse. Released 2021 - 2022, I bought two of her, too. By now I was totally enamored of the cake horse line.
Sadly and as far as I know, that was the end of their cake horses line (my name for it, not Breyer's) although I have wondered if Neapolitan was included in it. Makes sense that it would.
I did a quick walk through of my collection, looking to see if I had any other horses that reminded me of sweet things to eat. I do have some Hagen Renakers that remind me of candy bars in their coloring (think of a Three Musketeers Bar.) I'll see if I can't find pictures of those - anymore, I really don't want to handle my chinas too much so I won't be bringing them out of their cabinets to photograph them.
Stay 'tooned!
