I recently started offering moulded chocolates at my store. I have those cute plastic molds in baby shapes, roses, etc. I would love to add some color accents. What kind of coloring is best to use?

Could you use the colored cocoa butters that are available now? They have all of the primary colors. If not that, I have used dusting powders made into a thin paste with vegetable oil and added it bit by bit to melted white chocolate until I achieved the color I wanted.

What about the Wilton melting chocolates in colors then paint them onto the molds where you want accent color? That is how I do Christmas trees with decorations, Santa, even Halloween pops. Hope this helps
Rebecca

You can use several different wafers. Merckens, Wilton, Make N Mold. You can buy the wafers in the different colors, or use special candy colors.

To candyladyhelen:

What did you mean by "candy colors"?

I used to watch the chef make truffles when I worked in the pastry dept of hotels. It looked like he just brushed color on from a bottle (it looked like the Americolor gel colors you use for coloring buttercream icing) before he poured the chocolate into molds on top of it. I wish I knew what was in the bottle...very sneaky! Can I alter icing coloring paste somehow...so I won't have to stock a separate line of products (I don't do the chocolates very often)?

To color chocolate you use oil based candy colors. I use AmeriColor. If you don't use an oil base, it won't mix with the chocolate.

Thanks! That must have been it (I remember that the bottles looked exactly alike... we mixed the bottles up once and used it in the icing...don't do that!). I'll have to check my local stores for it. I don't need many colors, I guess. Mostly just pastels for accents on the baby and wedding chocolates (they're white chocolate, so they need a little color).

Is it best to paint it into the mold before pouring or on top of the chocolates after they're unmolded? And would I need to dilute the Americolor, or just brush it on straight from the bottle?

What about this stuff?

http://shop.cakecentral.com/flocoat-p-1006.html?cPath=55

Would that work? Has anyone used it before???

The Flo-coat works OK--not my favorite. I found that to get a dark color you had to use a fair amount of it and it still resulted in a product that siezed up pretty quickly.

If you're using real, tempered chocolate for the molds, colored cocoa butter would be the easiest, quickest , and shiniest thing to do.

If you're using candy melts/summer coating, you can buy those already colored in at least 8 colors.

Rae