Can I use the food coloring paste for icing to color candy melts?
Yes you can !!![/b] there are candy colors available. They are used just for chocolate. If you use food colors, the chocolate will seize up. You can add some crisco type shortening or even vegetable oil to thin it out. But the candy colors are the best to use.
Jeez Eve, relax! I agree though, I've used all kinds of colors and nothing's ever seized on me!
Thanks for the tips! Seeing as how the only colors of candy melts avalible in my area are white, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate (I agree, they taste nothing like chocolate). I have to be pretty creative with my coloring techniques.
I am going to make some fall leaves now!
I have also had it sieze up on me. And not it was not overcooked. So it is possible.
THANK YOU... I just go ballistic when I see wrong information....
I am sorry you went balastic. But I have been making candy since 1978 and while you are correct that candy melts are not real chocolate, they are candy coating and if you use liquid or paste icing food colors, it will seize up or get thick. That is why they make candy colors just for candy. If you do add the paste or liquid colors, you can add shortening to help it melt all the way. I thought this forum was for sharing ideas and information and experiences. These are my experiences. I think 27 years of candy making let's me share what I know.
Yes, as a matter of fact I was just playing with them for the first time today, you can seize them with to much color or over melting 
. Can be fixed with crisco but it does not come to a pourable consistency - something like a moldable paste. You can also burn it and turn it into crystals 
Oh well its fun trying new things.
Bulldog, it is funny you should mention gabpeightysmom. That is exactly what I am trying to do. So, you used a pastry bag for the melted chocolate? I was just going to use a paint brush and brush the candy melts on. I have my first batch in the fridge right now. I will let you know how they turn out. Also, What side of the leaf did you use. I am trying a couple on both sides to see the diffrence. I am worried that the side with the veining will be too thin and my candy will fall apart when I try to take them off the leaf.
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