I am frustrated. I just melt some white Candy melts, add black Wilton paste color to it, and it changed consistency to hard mash or what...
I added a little Crisco, and reheated, but no change. I know they sell candy melts in colors, but, I need it many colors to my image. I was excited to use something different as Image transfer than FBCT.
What happened?
Wilton sells special candy colors that look exactly like the paste colors. They're usually near the candy melts in Michaels.
I have successfully used paramount crystals with regular paste color, but I don't believe you'll find that at Michaels.
Sorry if I wasn't clear! Like Beachcakes said - you can buy special candy colors pretty much anywhere you buy candy melts. Of course, if available, I prefer to buy the candy already colored! For instance if you want pink chocolate, you can use mostly white and then add one or two disks of red. Of course, they don't have a lot of color selections of premade chocolate available at most retail stores, but what they do have usually comes in handy! Good luck!
Thank you for your advice.. On Friday I am going to make my first ganache cake, and was excited to try chocolate transfer, but I screw up already with my melts... my little one need to go take nap, can't go to store... so I decided to do color flow RI transfer. I hope I can put it to the Ganache cake....would you think so?
Sure you can. I would probably pipe some good sized blobs of royal icing or colorflow on the back of the hardened piece to stick it on your cake. This way the plaque will sit up a bit off the top of the ganache and won't be as likely to soak up the moisture.
You also can add flo-coat to your white chocolate...then... you can add your regular Americolor gels to color the chocolate. It's wonderful stuff!
Jennifer 
According to everything I've read, normal Wilton paste colors are not intended for use in candy. If you've done it and it worked, WOW, because it isn't supposed to work. Water-based product and chocolate do not mix.
I am going to be embarking on my first attempt at this here in a couple days. I was told by the lady at the cake store that she has had the most success with powder colors. So that's what I bought. I guess we will see how it works out. She said you can use the flo-coat, which is an additive, but she didn't recommend it because it takes so much, 5 drops to 1 drop of color.
I stopped using the powder colors in chocolate because the mints I was making always looked like speckled eggs that you get at easter.
The pastes (which are more like a gel consistency anyway) are all I keep on hand.
Oh wait!!! They are not the wilton brand! They are CK brand. Maybe that makes a difference?
I always use the wilton gel colors... or paste. I just add it a beofre I start to melt and then a little at a time until I achieve the right color. But don't over heat or it won't work.
Ok, I have now ruined a pound of white chocolate using the FloCoat and Americolor gel color. It is still seizing on me!!!!!!!! I'm VERY frustrated at this point! I'm doing it exactly how it says to do it. Melting the chocolate, putting the flocoat in, and adding the color on top of of the flo coat. I even tried mixing the color with the flocoat before adding it! Any help??????? I'm afraid to try it again as I have to drive 45 minutes to get more chocolate and don't want to waste anymore!
Thanks!!
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