Has Anyone Added Melted Candy Melts To Their Mmf?
Baking By fragglerock1 Updated 6 Apr 2007 , 8:31pm by Zamode
I think I will try this, wondering if anyone else has done it before? If so, how did it turn out?
I have not personally mixed the two together but since the cooling of the candy melts causes it to harden, I would think that it would not work. I would think that the mixture would become unworkable - not pliable. Candy melts cool and harden so quickly also. Try a very small amount instead of ruining a whole batch and then post a reply on the forum to let us know if it works. I bet it would taste yummy!
I was thinking a very small amount to add a subtle flavor just a couple of ounces.
Hope you havent gone for it yet. I tried it once and it makes it totally crumbly and unworkable. There may be a way to do it so it doesn't, I dont know, I'm a greener as far as cakes go, but I added it to the warm MMF and tried kneading it in and it went crumbly.
You can add candy clay but not candy melts by themselves.
Do you guys think it might work if she melts the candy melts and adds melted shortening? Enough shortening might keep the candy melts from hardening.
Seems like even then you'd have to add a small amount to avoid ruining the recipe. I've never made MMF. Does it have shortening in it already? If so, maybe you could cut that amount to make up for what you add to the candy melts.
It's not that the melts are hardening in the MMF, what they're actually doing is called seizing, and once the chocolate has seized that's all she wrote, game over, garbage. (It's the same as melting chocolate in a double boiler and accidentally getting a water splash in the bowl, It seizes and it's trash)
Well I added 1/2 a cup of candy melts to the recipe and it was delicious! This is what I did: I melted the marshmellows, water, lemon juice and extract, I then stirred in the melted candy melts and added the confectioner's sugar as normal. It gave it a very subtle chocolate flavor. It did not crumble or sieze up on me. I used my americolor gels to color the mmf after it had set up a bit and it worked out fine. I give it two thumbs up!
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