The ruling on making sweets in the shape of statues

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some confectionery shops make sweets and cakes in the form of statues of children or people, and then people buy them, and their end is to be eaten and not kept. Is this permissible?

Answer:
It is not permissible to make these statues, it is not permissible to make images, it is not permissible, whether from sweets or from anything else. In the authentic hadith, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that the image-makers are the most severely punished of people on the Day of Resurrection. So it is not permissible to make images, not for adults or children, not with sweets or with anything else.