Use a candy thermometer, digital infrared thermometer, or deep-fry thermometer to monitor your wax temperature. Spatula Stirring the wax with a heat-resistant spatula ensures even wax melting during the candle-
It's so much fun and it's easy enough that even kids can make their own candy lollipops. In this tutorial, I will show you how to paint colored white chocolate or confectionery coating into candy molds to create cute and colorful lollipops for any occasion. This candy painting technique ...
Pour resin into molds. Almost anything can be used as a mold, but the easiest to use are candy and special silicone jewelry molds that are sold at craft and baking supply stores. Some bubbles may remain in the resin after filling the molds. Place a heat gun a few inches above the resi...
How to Make Chocolate From Scratch: Chocolate is a food that is simultaneously ubiquitous and mysterious. Chocolate is everywhere - in cakes, in candies, in beverages. Yet few people really know how chocolate is made. Even fewer have actually set their e
Making candy at home doesn't require a separate pantry full of gear, but these special tools and items will make the process easier. Candy Thermometer Your grandmother's retro candy thermometer (likely hiding in the back of your kitchen drawer) will work perfectly for these recipes; if you'...
Candy molds are also known as butter molds. Citrus stripper Use this tool to cut a thin strip of peel from citrus fruit or other fresh produce. Decorating bag Use these items for piping designs and other cake- decorating tasks. The decorating bag is also known as a parchment cone. ...
Candy thermometer Silicone lollipop molds(Bigger or smaller molds will make fewer or more lollipops.) Lollipop sticks Cellophane wrapping bags with ties(Individually wrapping the lollipops helps to keep them from sticking together.) I’m using thissilicone lollipop moldfor hard candy suckers. It comes...
If you plan to make cakesicles for a holiday or special occasion, you can even use colored candy melts. Cakesicles look great plain, in one solid color or shade of chocolate, but they look even better when decorated. You can simply add a drizzle of chocolate or colored candy melts to ...
Melt the chocolate to make the candy letters using thissilicone letter mold Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals in the microwave. Be sure not to overcook or burn this step! Using a toothpick, pour/scoop/shove the melted chocolate in the letters of your choosing in thissilicone vintage...
Because the syrup will shrink a bit after the molds cool, fill your trays a little bit over the top. Then give the syrup five hours to cool and soon you'll have candy bricks to stack and gummy Lego characters to stand next to them. ...