Chocolate Chips Or Candy Melts
Decorating By lilladycreations Updated 3 Dec 2005 , 9:15pm by cindy6250
I want to make Truffles, Chocolate dipped Preztels, Chocolate covered Marshallows, Chocolate cover graham crackers, Bark, Chocolate dipped spoons
What is the best chocolate to use?
Any suggestions or tips will be a great help?
I got some candy melts, but I don't think they taste too good. I can just use them for decoarations on the them.
I agree ... a good eating chocolate is the way to go on this type of goodies (candy melts and baking chocolate won't cut it!)
My favourite bar to use is Lindt 70%, but it is rather expensive. In Canada you can get President's Choice large choclate bars (from the Fortinos, Zehr's, etc chain of grocery stores) which are much cheaper, but pretty decent quality.
You want a choclate that is yummy enough to eat by itself, then it should be good enough for your goodies!
I've made chocolate dipped "things" with chocolate chips and you just add 1T. of shortening while your melting it. I think there's something about it on the bag.
I use almond bark for covering everything with chocolate. It works on everything. Something I make every year is chocolate covered peanut butter filled ritz crackers. They taste just like Reeses Peanut Butter Cups or the Chocolate Peanut Butter patties by Little Debbie.
gilson6 - Do you just use the mini Ritz Bits and dip those in chocolate? Or do you make regular sized peanut butter Ritz crackers and dip? Please share your instructions if you don't mind! 
These sound yummy!
I use almond bark for my choc. covered prezels. Do you think you can use that for the choc. covered marshmallows and graham crackers?
I was wondering the same thing for marshmallows. I just made some caramel-dipped marshmallows for the first time and they were good. I wanted to cover them in chocolate so they wouldn't stick together.
I've seen almond bark at the grocery store and had no idea what purpose it served. Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.
Question: do you need to add anything to the almond bark? Flavoring, butter, corn syrup ?
The choc covered pb crackers are one of my favorites. The tiny bit of salt from the ritz crackers just makes them wonderful.
I tried the almond bark. It was okay. It does not set up as well as coating candy. Merckens is the best. But I have found that the Make N Mold candy melts that AC Moore sells is very good as well.
I tried the almond bark. It was okay. It does not set up as well as coating candy. Merckens is the best. But I have found that the Make N Mold candy melts that AC Moore sells is very good as well.
I've never had a problem with my almond bark setting. If I may ask, what were you dipping?
I tried the almond bark. It was okay. It does not set up as well as coating candy. Merckens is the best. But I have found that the Make N Mold candy melts that AC Moore sells is very good as well.
I've never had a problem with my almond bark setting. If I may ask, what were you dipping?
I do a tremendous amount of hand painted lollipops, pretzels, marshmallows, assorted chocolates, and many chocolate novelties. I found I got by with the bark when I had a few pretzels to do, but the bulk of my orders I would not use it for. It did not make the pretzels last as long as when coated with Merckens or this new product I found.
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