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Now, if the 1 lb. bags aren't enough for you, then throw a couple of these five pounders over your shoulder. FYI, these are superwhite vanilla coatings, not to be confused with white. Same thing, only brighter. And, if you buy a bunch of white candy melts, then you might even want to try tinting your own. It's really easy.
Just add a few drops of this stuff to the melted candy coating and color away. Make sure it says
candy color, though. Regular food coloring contains water and will mess your chocolate up. I mean it.
100% Cocoa Butter.
Gigantic caramel chunks
Ahhhh, sticks! Thank you. Fat ones, skinny ones, paper ones, wood ones, short ones…
… and long ones!
Or if you're afraid of being stickless… bulk ones.
Of course, you'll want something to stick them in to let your cake pops dry. Styrofoam works great.
These are the medium
peanut butter cup molds I use to make the
Cupcake Bites. But, don't let these limit you…
Check out the endless variety of
candy molds. They have them for just about anything. Any occasion, hobby or interest you can think of.
Using
squeeze bottles makes it easier to pour chocolate into the molds.
And you can use
brushes to paint on the molds with different layers of colored candy melts.
These are
candy writers. They are really handy when you just need a little color and quick.
Just place the tube in a bowl of hot water to melt the candy and it's ready to use.
They come individually in several different colors.
Or try out the box set.
Oils. Need some banana cream flavored chocolate? Bubble Gum? Cranberry? How about root beer or mango?
A lot of people have asked how to make their chocolate thinner. These
paramount crystals do the trick. Just add a few pieces at a time to the melted candy coating and stir until they completely disappear. But, you can also use regular old shortening.
Miniature cutters.
Cello bags. These have a bronze/brown tint and they come in lots of sizes.
Look at these.
foil candy wrappers.
You could wrap some cake balls in foil and then place them in little
candy cups. How cute!
Or you could place them in truffle boxes. I love
boxes. Especially little ones.
More boxes.
Americolor edible ink pens. These have made cake pop decorating so much more fun for me. I started out buying
these black ones. They come as a 2 pack. I've used them to draw eyes and smiles for cake pop faces and also on fondant covered cupcakes.
Here's a few examples of how I've used them in the past.
I love this store.
But layer cake pans aren't the only kind of pan
Cake Art carries.
There are loaf pans…
… not to be confused with bread pans.
Bundt-style pans in various designs.
Angel food cake pans.
Tartlet pans. (
Fat Daddio's
… they even have a cute name.)
Doughnut pans. I should get one of these for the next time I try
dougnuts.
How about some square pans. Or… regular, mini and jumbo-size muffin pans.
But, when it comes to cake pans, I love these little graduated ones that you can hold in one hand.
And, then there's these. These are much, much bigger. I don't know how big they actually go, but I've seen some as big as 18 inches wide and 3 and 4 inches deep. That is a serious cake. I think my oven would be scared.
But, the graduated sets aren't all round. There are heart pans, hexagon pans, square pans, and oval pans… all available in different sizes.
But maybe you just want one pan. How about a sweet teddy bear? In pink, though.
What about a butterfly? Care Bear? Spiderman?
Or maybe you want individual ice cream-shaped cupcake pans. Too cute!
Or maybe you want a collection of itty-bitty, teeny-weeny, baby-size pans. I want one of each myself. For scale, that's a container of sprinkles on the left.
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