How do you keep candy melts shiny? Color your Candy Melts with an oil-based food coloring to keep the shine. Add oil-based candy flavorings, available in the cake-decorating aisle at your craft store, if you would like to add a touch of peppermint or fruit flavor while still keeping the melts glossy.
Dip or pour your Candy Melts or candy coating. Can I use gel food coloring in candy melts? You can use colored candy melts, add soft gel colors to the corn syrup, or wait until the modeling chocolate is made and then add a little food gel color. Do candy melts taste like chocolate? To be honest, they don't even taste like chocolate. They have a plain, almost milk-like flavor. With candy melts, it's more about presentation than taste. Flavored candy melts are much better as decorative chocolate than they are as a snack.
How many cake pops will one bag of candy melts cover? How long do candy melts last once melted? Candy melts just as they are when you get them will not last forever. Maybe months. If you want them to last forever then the best thing is to get a Food Saver and put them in your freezer. If you keep them too long unmade they won't melt unless add paramount crystals or you could try Crisco. Towards the end, you might have just a clump or two.
At that time, switch to or second intervals. Heat and stir until completely smooth. Depending on the application, you might find that your melted candy wafers are too thick. For example, when making cake pops, I like the melted wafers pretty thin. I used to use Crisco, stirring it into the melted wafers until it melted.
It works, but now I prefer to use Paramount Crystals. Paramount Crystals actually look like soap flakes. Stir them in a bit at a time into the melted wafers. The neat thing about the crystals is that the wafers will still set up hard, as opposed to Crisco which can give the set coating a slightly softer feel. This is where the real fun begins! My husband, son, and I were close to arm wrestling over the last few. Called "candy melts," those dyed circles never failed to get me excited, although I didn't quite know what they were.
Which brings us to the real question: what are candy melts? Candy melts are colored and flavored ingredients for baking and decorating. They're meant to be melted down and used as a coating for various sweets like cake pops or chocolate molds.
You'll often see plastic molds next to them at the store, because candy melts are also great for melting into various shapes. They come in a variety of colors, for all kinds of colorful projects. Although they have the look and consistency of chocolate, candy melts aren't chocolate. Their main ingredients are sugar and vegetable oil, and they usually don't contain cocoa butter.
Whisk or stir in-between intervals. ADD the melted butter to the chocolate and stir well to incorporate. The butter helps to thin out the chocolate so it coats more evenly. Stir in the mint extract. DIP each Oreo halfway into the chocolate and lay it on a sheet of parchment or wax paper. Shake the sprinkles or chips onto the warm chocolate.
Store in an airtight container between sheets of wax paper.
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