Quick Cake Ball/candy Melt Help Please!
Decorating By tullicious Updated 14 Jul 2011 , 11:44pm by tullicious
I have my first really big cake ball order for tomorrow. I rolled all my cake balls yesterday. I started melting my candy melts today and it's just not right. I usually use a different brand melts, but I got Wilton on a special so I got a bunch. I contacted Wilton and they said they are within the good use by dates, but it's pretty thick. I used the shortening to thin it and it's just not thinning. I've done a bunch of cake balls in the past and the chocolate has always been drizzly and perfect. I'm guessing this is bad chocolate. I've opened three of the bags I bought. I went to grab some more at our Walmart, but of course they were out. The craft stores are pretty far away. So I grabbed some almond bark. Question.... have you used, or would you use the almond bark to dip the cake balls? Do they taste as good? Or do you suggest I make the trip to the craft store to get the candy melts???? Thanks for advice!
I don't know where you live but I am in New York. I recently also bought a number of wilton melts in several colors and they were so thick and gloppy, I didnt even like them when thinned out. But the straight chocolate no coloring was fine. I was thinking it was related to the colored melts. I never used almond bark - sorry. would you use white chocolate chips tinted or just chocolate? sorry its for an order! good luck!
On my last cake balls, I used vanilla almond bark. I'm not sure if it was just me, but it seemed like it was sweeter than if I would have used Baker's (my usual). But it was also the white/vanilla almond bark, so maybe that was the problem? (White chocolate, imo, seems sweeter)
Otherwise it melted nicely and was easy to use.
I usually use Wilton and it does tend to be quite thick. It has NEVER been "drizzly" for me. I have to add quite a bit of shortening to thin it. I have mixed the almond bark and Wilton melts together (I don't really like the taste of the almond bark by itself) and still have to add quite a bit of shortening. Even with all the shortening I add it doesn't get "drizzly" but it does bring it to a consistency I can use.
I kind of thought the almond bark wouldn't be as good. I actually picked some up to try and I didn't like it as well. I ended up driving and going to get more candy melts. I got more Wilton bags and this time they did well. I know the others didn't get too hot. I'm always careful and only micro on low power for short intervals. Thanks for all replies. I guess I just got unlucky with the ones I bought previously.
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