Hi all can anyone tell me where i am going wrong.i have had two disasterous attempts at making a candy shell for my giant cupcake in the wilton cupcake pan.i have followed the tutorial,brushed a thin layer of melts on to the pan and refrigerated them and then applied a thicker coat and refridgerated again for one hour.the problems i am having are that my brush clogs up with the melts and i get an uneven clumpy effect on the inside and i have not been successful in removing the shell from the pan in one piece which means i have to eat the broken shell and that is not good for my diet.
hope someone can help me with this as everyone elses candymelt shells look stunning and i really want to get this right
thankyou

I've never made one, but if you're using Wilton candy melts, I know from trying to make cake pops that they don't melt perfectly smooth...I had to add oil to thin mine out.

I don't think it matters if you're getting a clumpy looking interior since the cake would go in there and cover all that.

I read somewhere that you can loosen the chocolate shell by running hot water on the sides of the pan briefly.

You can re-melt the broken shell

I use the plastic insert from the pan to make mine. I spray it 1st with a little PAM. I also don't use the brush, I use my hands ( covered in a food glove) to "paint" the inside with a thick coat .Then I put mine in the freezer. Using that plastic makes it easy to pop out because I can manipulate it.
If you don't have the plastic insert I imagine the same steps would work on the pan.
Good luck, this took me a few tries too...

i have only made a shell once, but it was wayyyyy easier than i was expecting. I did not use the directions from the tutorial. I poured the candy melts on the bottom and brushed it up the sides (if the makes sense!). it was a thicker shell. I did two coats and threw it in the freezer for 15 minutes each time. It slid right out of the pan. I didnt use pam or other ooking spray.

Hi, I have one of the silicone giant cupcake pans. I had trouble to. It took 3 tries to get a liner. On the 3rd one, I froze it for a few hours and made a really thick coat of chocolate. Three coats I think. It was ugly on the inside but you couldn't tell once it was out of the pan. I did remelt the chocolate after it cracked and added a little oil to help smooth it. My only problem was that once I assembled the cupcake and put it in the fridge it cracked. I am not sure if my bottom layer of cake was tall enough to support the top of the cupcake. I hope that was it because I have to make another. Hope this helps.
Good Luck!

I made my first giant cupcake a few weeks ago. I followed mrsvb78's tutorial and it worked perfectly. I thought I would have to "pop" it loose from the pan but it just lifted right out. It will look lumpy inside but that doesn't matter. I tilted the pan on it's side and drizzled the candy melts all around and then used my fingers to spread it out and into the grooves. I also trimmed the ridges off the bottom half of the cupcake before I iced it. When I put the cake into the shell it only went in about half way. So I took a cake board and laid it on top and GENTLY pressed the cake down into the shell. I thought for sure the shell would crack but it didn't. On a different post someone said that if your candy melts are old that you will have trouble getting it out of the pan. I would try a little PAM in the pan. I hope you get it to work. Good Luck!

thankyou everybody for your help,i will have another try.

I think I iced the bottom layer put it into the shell and iced the top. It looked like it came to the rim of the shell. I may have not waited long enough for it to settle. How long do you wait?