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I’m in love.

I’m a newlywed, of course I’m in love :o) but I’m also in love with candy melts.

Oh candy melts. How many shapes you take on, may I count the ways?

I shop at Bake It Pretty to buy my melts and my molds. You can follow the instructions on their blog on how to melt the candy. It’s a bit easier with these larger molds – you can just pour the melted candy into the molds rather than having to mess with the piping.

As you can see I had some trouble getting the leaves and flower precisely on key. I would avoid tapping the mold once you fill these portions, as any movement will prevent a clean leaf/flower structure. Obviously pour in the colored portion first and then the white (or any other color) after you’ve filled your leaves and flowers.

Take photos before eating :)

A tip on this one, I used candy bark instead of candy melts for the white, because this baby takes a T-O-N of melts. Well, dearies. The candy bark, although excellent for a thin coating on strawberries and the like, is not so tasty in this thick melt. Or at least my Kroger brand on-clearance white bark wasn’t. So, I recommend either to infuse a flavoring or mix candy melts with candy bark.

Yum!

Well, last week I was laid off from my web development job. Apparently the recession is even attacking the world wide web. The upside to this is while I seek gainful employment, I will have extra time to post my cooking endeavors. No more 1-year old homepage posts! Hooray!