I have Americolor brand food color pens to make eyes and mouths on some cakepops and they are writing very poorly. They write just fine on a paper towel, but look like they're out of ink when I try and use them on the cakepops. Is there anything I can do to make them work better or is there something else I can use that works better? Need some help - ASAP! I have a pile of cakepops ready... I just need to finish them for delivery. Thanks!
Yep - candy melts. I keep cleaning the tip of the marker with a paper towel, but it's not working any better. The first few worked great, now it's not. Any idea what I can use instead on candy melts? They are already dipped and dried.
Just dots for eyes and mouths ~ simple! I was doing both "smiley" and "dotted" mouths. I'm not sure how long it would take for the royal icing to dry. That's what was so nice about the marker - it dried in minutes and your could bag them up. I could use candy melts, but I don't have black - or any candy coloring to tint it black.
The waxy stuff from the melts is interfering with the (probably water based) ink. Think "oil and water don't mix".
Halloween sprinkles are a good thing to keep on hand for small details like that. I have one of those jars with 6 different shapes of sprinkles. I use the black ones for eyes, and I just used some orange ones for a tiny carrot nose on a snowman cupcake. (I know that doesn't help with the marker issue, but maybe you could find some on clearance in the future.)
I have found that neither the Wilton nor the Americolor markers work on cake pops. I don't know how Bakerella and others write and draw on their cake pops.
I have used melted black chocolate with a toothpick successfully to draw eyes and features on cake pops. HTH!
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