Book of Life Premiere Countdown: Day T-minus 6: La Calavera.

The most prominent staple of the holiday, present in all kinds of decoration as well as offerings in altars for the muertos.

These skulls are made entirely of cane sugar and decorated with frosting of many colors and sometimes metallic paper, as to represent the joy of life, as a jolly reminder of the times one spent with the deceased. There’s ones made of chocolate instead tho -.-

Some feature the name of a living person, and may be handed as gifts, to remind them that the only guaranteed thing about life is death, and we all have to face it someday. Basically, “spoilers: everyone dies.”