Chocolate Art

So today is the first day of trying to use chocolate to make my own decorations for cupcakes. I am learning that it is going to be tough teaching myself how to do all of these baking things, especially since I am in the  middle of a move.  Luckily I enjoy baking and cooking so it is not very stressful!  Quite the opposite and very exciting to see how things will come out!

As you can see I started my learning of chocolate art with butterflies, which will be put onto cupcakes on Thursday for Dawn's Birthday!  It took a while to figure out what was the best way to use the chocolate  and how to keep the chocolate melted long enough for everything to work!

Can find candy melts in all colors!

To save you trouble,  here is how I did it that worked the best:   Put the candy melts into decorating bags (or sandwich bags).   Then fill a pot will water and place it on the stove at the lowest setting.  Place your bags of candy melts into the pot.  Every once in a while pick up the bags and squeeze them to mix up the chocolate and get it all melted.   When the chocolate is all melted, cut a whole at the bottom of the decorating bag (or corner of sandwich bag) and decorate away!

Places like Michael's or Hobby Lobby have little squeeze bottles that you can put the candy melts into and place those bottles into the hot water.   These are nice, because you can continue to keep the chocolate melted easier in between colors you are using.   I did not talk about them before, because while using the orange candy melts, the bottle didn't work as well.  I did use a bottles for the dark chocolate  the whole time and it worked wonderfully.  I also suggest the plastic bags, because they are much easier to clean up in the end.