The thing I didn't mention in my previous post when I first made them is that I found a WAY cheaper way to get candy melts. Rather than using pre-packaged Wilton brand candy melts that you can find already colored, I actually found chocolate and vanilla candy melts in the bulk foods section of my local grocery store at Winco. The Wilton candy melts come in bags of 14 oz. at around $2.99 regular price. Whereas, in the bulk bins I got my candy melts for $2.38/lb! Even though I would have to use oil based dye to color the white melts it still cheaper than buying the melts pre-packaged and I can deal with the coloring part.
If you have a bulk foods section in your local grocery store go and look if you can find the candy melts. I've been shopping at the grocery store for the past 10 years and have only really discovered it in the recent months. I don't know why I never thought of buying most of my grocery items in that section, it would have helped me save some money in the past.
With that said this past Easter I made some Devil's Food cake balls just to play around with flavor. With this batch I ended up using vanilla flavored candy melts and used oil based dye to color them baby blue and lavender.
I had to play around with the dyes a bit to get the color I wanted. I first started out with the blue coloring and used a toothpick dipped into the dye and let it drip into the melted chocolate. After a few tries I got the color I desired. With this batch of cake balls I think I made about 80, so I colored half of it blue and the other half lavendar. When the first batch was done I still had some blue coating left, so I just added more candy melts and added red dye till I reached the lavendar shade I wanted.
After this batch was done and taste test commenced. I got a thumbs up from my Lil Booger and friends! Although they still preferred the red velvet cake instead LOL. It was good experimentation for me and try to get the cake balls coated nicer.
Here's how they turned out and a few pics of my supplies.
Vanilla Candy Melts
Oil Based Candy Colors
Vanilla Melts Colored Lavender
Light Blue Colored Cake Balls
Lavender Colored Cake Balls
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