Cake Ball Question

Decorating By tobycat Updated 30 Dec 2006 , 6:39am by katy625

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tobycat Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:28am
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Am going to try cake balls this weekend, I think, and I was wondering if I could use candy melts (like the kind you buy at Michael's) for the coating or if this would be too hard. Can anyone recommend a kind of chocolate? (I'm doing a dark fudge cake, w/ amaretto). Do I need to do anything to the chocolate if I just buy a bar?

TIA -- Sarah

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tyty Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:32am
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I used candymelts mixed with bittersweet choc for the dark, and white candymelts for the white.

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katy625 Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:32am
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Yep......the pic in the article is a bar of Ghiradeli Chocolate, which I love! You could probably just use chocolate chips whatever kind. They are made with a high content of wax so when it will dry on the cake balls and hold their shape! Yum Yum I am so ready to make some cake balls too!!!

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vickymacd Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:34am
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I used choc. chips for my chocolate and melts for the white. The big difference is that the packaged 'chips' are 'stabilized. Buying bulk bark or melts is better in my opinion.

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tobycat Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:38am
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Thanks all! I'm looking forward to giving this a try! As it's only for a party of 10, I should have lots of practice with a 10" cake ready to go!

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nglez09 Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:38am
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What flavor of Ghiradelli bar is it? It's always seemed so appealing. . . icon_twisted.gif

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katy625 Posted 30 Dec 2006 , 6:39am
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From what i can see from the pic its just a white chocolate Ghiradelli bar.

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