I have a little wine glass that I wanted to fill with purple to look like wine, then suspend a round disc in it as a host. I melted parrafin wax and it won't color with food coloring! so, I was thinking about hard candy; but I think it will crack the glass. Any ideas on what I can use?

I think hard candy would probably break your glass. How about using jello?

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Piping gel?

I used piping gel when I made a wine bottle cake and they wanted a wine glass to go with it. I just tinted the piping gel and it worked great. HTH

The probelm is that I wanted the host to be stuck into the "wine" 1/4 inch or so. Piping gel or jello won't hold it. I'm now thinking about tinting white candy melts to purple ... that will dry hard ... but it will be cloudy rater than clear.
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You can add some broken up wax crayons into the parafin wax to dye it.

you definately need candle wax coloring. the wax crayons will work too, the only draw back to them is that you only have one color of crayon that will be the color you want. not a lot of room for error or experimenting so if you go the crayon way..buy two boxes

Crayons will make it cloudy...
If you don't want to make Jello Jigglers (stir 1 pack Knox into the powder and make as usual)... WAIT - gel candles!

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Couldn't you use candy coloring with the parafin wax? I know that you aren't supposed to use regular food coloring when coloring chocolate and candy melts due to the liquid in the food coloring, but since the candy coloring is oil based, shouldn't that work???

I used to make those jello jigglers all of the time; the really are QUITE firm. As long as your "host" is made of something that won't dissolve, like a candy melt (etc.) I would think that would work out fine. My 2¢!

yes, you can pour melted sugar into a glass. Just make sure that the glass is not cold. You could run the glass under hot water for a while to make it warm. I pour melted sugar and isomalt into a glass measuring cup all the time. that should give you a really cool look. good luck.

I came up with an idea that looks great!

I made the wine in the chalice by melting bc in the microwave, letting it set a couple minutes and poured off the oil that separated and rose to the top. I poured the remaining sludge into the glass and it was pretty stiff. I made a host out of fondant and stuck it into the glass. The cross on the host is a sticker.

Here's the picture of the whole cake:
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