Okay, I have a mold, a Navy emblem mold to be exact, and I need to color it. The details are so small that I can't possibly paint each letter, etc. a different color. I'm wanting to know if it would look alright to paint the molded candy, which is white, with Americolor gels?
Amy
Okay, scratch painting with Americolor! I should have known better. It was like watercolor paint and just beaded up and rolled right off. I don't know what I'm going to do. I have to have four of them, one for each corner of the cake. I don't want to make them all a solid color like white, yellow, or blue. 
Amy
I know you said the mold has very small details to paint. So there are 2 ways to do it. First you can color melted white chocolate with the color you want to paint. Take a toothpick & color the details. Let it dry completely. Then pour the rest of the one color choc. into mold.
Or, you can color the melted white chocolate the colors you want, then mold the choc. the one color you want then when it comes out, you just paint the colored chocolate onto the mold.
The choc. won't take just the color. It's the chocolate that has to be colored & painted on. I hope this helps.
I'm using the candy melts and I tried using a toothpick! That didn't work too well. The lettering is so small and it also has small stars. I tried coloring the white candy melts and that was just a mess. It siezed up. I'll have to try coloring actual white chocolate. Is that the difference?
What I'm trying to paint is a Navy emblem. If you do a search for Navy Emblem, you'll see what I'm talking about. My mold is the one with the eagle holding two anchors in his claws.
Amy
I tried coloring the white candy melts and that was just a mess. It siezed up. I'll have to try coloring actual white chocolate. Is that the difference?
Are you using an oil based candy color? Most colors that you use for your icing are water base and do not work with candy melts. It has to be oil based.
Ok, if you used the wrong coloring, you can make it more liquid again by adding white vegetable shortening or just regular vegetable oil. Mix it well. As for the toothpick, I have used it on the tinest of spaces. You just dip the tip in and get a tiny bit of the chocolate on it. It is a tedius process. But it can be done.
Also, have you thought of maybe just doing a buttercream transfer? It might go more smoothly for you.
I always try to get as much in as I can with a tooth pick then I fill in the spots i missed after i poor the other chocolate in. I use powdered coloring for my candy melts works best for me.
Try a BCT as well and use whatever looks best
Hope all works out.
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