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praetorian2000
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: New York
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:03 pm |
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Hi.
What is the best way to color candy melts? I'd rather not buy a whole bag of different colors because I won't need it all. I know liquid food colors are out. I have gel pastes (I think that's what they are, the colors used for coloring icing). Will that work? I also have a powdered food color. Could that be used? And do I just add drops of gel paste or sprinkles of powder and stir until I get the shade I want? |
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mbelgard
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Joined: Oct 10, 2005
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:18 pm |
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I don't know about the powdered, I think you can use it but I'm not sure.
The gels have water in them and that siezes chocolate, if you add shortening it should work. I just made black that way.
They sell food coloring just for candy. |
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candyladyhelen
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Joined: Sep 01, 2005
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Location: Sunset Beach NC
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:03 am |
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Powdered food colors are perfectly ok. If you use gel, you can add a bit of vegetable oil or crisco type shortening to make it thinner. |
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doitallmom
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Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Location: MICHIGAN
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:31 am |
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Did some last week; I thoght that I had candy colors @ home, turned out, I only had the regular paste. Used it in very small portions at a time until I acheived the color I wanted and didn't have any problems with seizing. |
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kris2005
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Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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Location: North Miami Beach
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:41 am |
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Yesterday I colored candy melts with regular coor paste and had absolutey no problems..HTH |
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praetorian2000
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: New York
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:25 pm |
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I tried gel paste yesterday. The candy melts got thicker, but it wasn't that much of a problem. Black was a nitemare. I had to use a lot and then I had to add oil because it began to seize. Next time I might consider the powdered colors because buying the colored melts is easier, but I don't need all of them and then what do I do with them afterwards? |
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candyladyhelen
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:42 pm |
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I use so much colored chocolate, that I did switch to buying the colored chocolate pieces. Much easier for me. |
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doitallmom
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:25 am |
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| candyladyhelen wrote: | | I use so much colored chocolate, that I did switch to buying the colored chocolate pieces. Much easier for me. |
same here; I just buy the assorted bag and seperate each individual color into baggies so they're handy when I need them. The day I actually used the paste was one of those in a pinch moments when I didn't have the color I needed and going to the cake supply store wasn't feasible. And when you're in a pinch, you try whatever you think may work-sometimes you even try a few things that you know (or at least think you know) won't work. LOL Anywho, we just hope we can help or have helped with you dilema praetorian2000
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