Even though I make my own fondant, modeling chocolate, royal icing, gum paste, and cake lace, it has never entered my mind to make candy melts. They are inexpensive and already colored, so I will just buy mine from Walmart.
Candy melts are $10 for a small bag here in Australia, so it can get expensive when you need multiple colours. I'm making some cake pops for a baby shower and I'm basically doing it for free/as a gift, so I was just looking for ways to reduce the cost.
Well, that explains why you want to make them! I pay less than $2.50 for 340 grams. I know our candy melts are not made of real chocolate. They are mostly cocoa butter and flavoring.
Wow, that price is great! The cheapest I've seen them here in Australia is $6 (when on sale). So yeah, that's why I was wondering about making them myself, haha!!
Btw, I just wanted to say thank you to you SandraSmiley and Kakeladi for responding to a lot of my posts lately. I'm fairly new at this, so I have many questions, and I really appreciate all the help :)
No problem, ash333. I am happy if we can help.
I do a lot of chocolate sculptures and I make my modeling chocolate from candy melts. If I had to pay your prices, that little hobby would come to a screeching halt!
You can use any kind of candy coating, doesn't have to be candy melts....you know, like the stuff you use to make dipped strawberries. We have several brands available in the baking isle of our grocery stores and any of them would work. Check to see if you have them available.
https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-vanilla-candy-coating/0001111086397
Hmmm, I don't think we have anything specifically called "candy coating" readily available. The closest I have seen are chocolate melts, perhaps they're the same thing? (I always thought they were just like regular cooking chocolate). It does say that they're made to set hard at room temp, and can be used on strawberries cookies and cakes, so I'm guessing they're similar. They're only $3. so I might give them a try. When colouring chocolate, it's a powdered colour that's necessary correct?
I think they are the same. They're advertised as being suitable for cake pops, with no need for refrigeration. Yay! Thanks for mentioning that SandraSmiley. I wouldn't have known they were the same/similar thing if you didn't post that link. It gets confusing when most of the recipes floating around online are from the US, because you guys have different products and names for things there.
usually the difference between a chocolate candy melt and the more affordable kind is the difference between using the real cocoa butter in the chocolate ones versus vegetable oil in the affordable candy coating -- no biggie -- i will sometimes add vanilla powder to candy melts too for an irresistible flavor
ash333, I always color my modeling chocolate with gel color without issue, but I don't know how it would work with straight chocolate coating. Maybe try melting a small amount and tinting it with both gel color and powder to see which works best.
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