How do you make your own modeling chocolate?

i melt good quality chocolate over a double boiler, then add warmed corn syrup, mix well, then spread on a pan and put in fridge for a couple of hours. then i kneed them together, and volia! bobs your uncle!!

White chocolate - 1 lb to 1/3 to 1/2 cup of white corn syrup depending the amount of cocoa butter in the chocolate. Melt the chocolate and stir the warmed syrup into the chocolate until it solidifies. Spread on parchment paper until cool and then wrap in plastic wrap - store about 1-2 days before using. Check the recipes section of this site probably for better instructions.

Thanks Motorhead. Sounds easy.

I've made it before and just let it set overnight and that was enough. When you mix the melted choc. and the corn syrup don't panic when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Just keep stirring and it will smooth out. It took me by surprise the first time I made it.

I've seen the little round circles of chocolate in bags. have anyone ever used this?They come in diffrent colors. Wilton has some.

I just made it last week with choco melts and it worked like a charm! One 1lb bag of melts to 1/3 c corn syrup. Poured it into a saran-lined pan and when it was cool to the touch I wrapped it in more saran wrap and refrigerated overnight. Kneaded it as I used it and it was a delight to work with. To be honest, it took me longer to type these instructions than it did to make the stuff!

I made some a couple of days ago with the same recipe as above with the candy melts. When I kneaded it and made my figure, it did not set up, it is still soft to the touch from Sunday. What did I do wrong?

FYI - the Candy Melts or the A-Peels are not real chocolate (i.e. there is no cocoa butter in them). They usually contain palm oil plus the lecithin. SO if you want true white chocolate with cocoa butter check your ingredients. Recipes though are about the same for either type.

For those of you who found your chocolate soft after putting it in the fridge, I have this same problem as well. I use candy melts as my figures are for children's cakes and they don't really care when you say you can eat the figures they are chocolate. I have to let my modeling chocolate sit out for 3 days in order to get the consistency that I like. I do have to knead it a bit to get it back to a softer consistency so I can work with it, but in the end it sets up perfectly. I mainly use the modeling chocolate for my tiaras as royal icing just breaks on me and my frustration level gets very high.