No, they do not set up correctly, you really need to use the candymelts or tempered chocolate.
Hugs Squirrelly
Do you need to buy the already colored candy melts or can you buy the white ones and use gel colors to color them? And where do you get tempered chocolate from? Thanks!
Well, you have to temper chocolate yourself. Here is a good link all about it: http://www.chococentral.com/tempering.htm
If you are going to colour your candy melts or chocolate you must have two choices. Use special candy colours that are made specifically for this or your chocolate will seize and not work. Seized chocolate forms into lumps that are semi-hardened and will not work in your molds or work. Or you can buy a product called Flocoat, Americolor makes it, and then use it in addition to your regular gel colours from them.
There are other products available for insuring that you can colour chocolate or compind coating (confectionery, candy melts, whatever you call them in your area) but these are the ones we commonly use.
You can sometimes get away with adding minute amounts of regular gel colours when making pastels but you are taking a chance that your chocolate will seize. So you are better off purchasing coloured candy melts, or white chocolate that you temper or white candy melts that you add candy colours or Flocoat and regular gel colours from Americolor to.
To get black for outlining, I use dark brown candymelts or dark chocolate I have tempered and add black candy colour to it. You can mix more than one colour candy melts together to come up with other colours. For example chocolate and red will give you something close to the colour of a fox. It is just a question of playing with the melts to obtain the colour you want.
Hugs Squirrelly
Thank you so much Squirrelycakes! You answered a lot of questions I haven't even thought to ask yet! LOL!!!!
Haha, you are most welcome kiddo. I think that is partly why I write long posts, I try to anticipate what my questions would be and heavens, I always have lots of questions, haha!
Hugs Squirrelly
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