Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Leftover Candy Melts Tutorial.
In this tutorial, I'm just going to be sowing you a few things that you can do with your
leftover candy melts.
I get a lot of questions about this, and obviously I use a lot of different colors and varieties
and amounts of candy melts doing all of these tutorials for you guys.
So I'm always looking for inventive ways to make sure that I'm not wasting anything.
So what we've got here today: I've got some zip lock bags.
I've got a grater.
Now I'm using quite a fine grater.
You can see there, it is a cheese grate.
It's not quite a [zest] but it's quite a fine cheese greater, almost like a parmesan grater.
I've got some candy melts that I'll be demonstrating with.
And these ones have just been dried in their container and then popped out and I just stored
them all on a zip lock bag.
I've got a little bit of greaseproof paper.
I've got some green candy melts.
I just finished making the Mike Wazokski cakepop so that's leftover from him.
A little bit of orange in one of my tutorials.
A little storage containers.
I've got a glass and couple of spoons.
And today I'm going to be showing you how to do something with a bit of frozen vodka.
Now vodka, when you store in the freezer, it doesn't actually freeze but it does come
down to a frozen temperature.
So if you are under the age of 21 or 18, depending on where you live, you will need to make sure
that you get your parent's permission to help with this technique.
But there's a couple of different techniques that you can use in this tutorial anyway.
So what I want to talk to you about your candy melts is storage.
If you leave your candy melts sitting in a cup like this exposed to air, they will start
to go off, and you won't notice it.
You put them in a microwave or you'll try to melt them back down and they'll be really
thick and really hard to work with.
And look candy melts are especially are not the easiest to work with at the best of times.
So you don't want to give them any other reason to thicken up or to get any thicker and chunkier
to work with.
So always make sure that you either cover that in plastic wrap or store them in a zip
lock bag.
So what I always do with my candy melts when I'm finished with them is I just take a standard
zip lock bag and I just spoon the candy melts in.
Put all those candy melts that you've been using.
I also use my containers an awful lot with all of these videos so I can't afford to have
heaps and heaps of containers with candy melts in them.
So what you want to do here is just to flatten them out.
If you do dry them in one big chunk like this, it means when you go and melts them back down,
it's actually really problematic and they won't melt evenly.
If you push it down into your bag, little of the air out, and then just seal it up.
It's actually going to dry like almost a sheet of candy melt.
And once it's completely dry, you can just crack it into little pieces.
Pop it back into a container when you're ready to melt it and they're going to be quite nice
in almost like shards of candy melt.
They're going to melt down really really nice and quickly.
Alright, so the next thing I'm going to show you is how to use the vodka.
So with your vodka, I've got my glass there and I've gone with a clear glass so that you
guys can see what I'm doing.
But you just fill that with the vodka.
Do make sure that that's as cold as it can possibly be.
And we're going to use just some orange candy melts for this demonstration.
So just spoon your candy melts into that zip lock bag.
And we'll also need a pair of scissors.
Squish that one all the way down to the end.
[Spoof] the end of the little tip there so you'll fashion a little bit of a piping bag.
And I'll [pop] over the glass.
So we'll put that in the middle.
I'll pop over the glass.
What you want to do is you want to let those candy melts drip down.
But as I do it, I sort of going to squeeze them almost like I'm piping.
And I'm going to move my hand around in a circular motion like this and that should
give us some really nice little coils.
So squeezing.
And you can see there, as it hits that vodka, it pretty little sets straight away.
So what you can do then is just give it a couple of seconds, take a toothpick or a cocktail
stick.
Now do be very gentle with it because it will be quite delicate.
And you can just lift it out.
So these are great for a variety of different things but it's just another neat little decoration
that you can make with leftover candy melts.
And you can take those and you can store them in one of your little containers for when
you need them.
Now that vodka...
All is not lost with that vodka.
You can put that back into the vodka bottle and you can still drink it.
It's not going to change the flavor of the vodka at all.
Alright, so the last thing that I want to show you how to do with your candy melts today
is making them into sprinkles.
Now I love this because for me sprinkles are the vein of my [distance].
I want to make something and I'll think "I don't have sprinkles in the same shade of
chocolate or the same shade of candy or whatever it is I'm using".
And I cannot believe after 7 or 8 years of decorating, that this didn't come to me sooner.
I just did this on one of my tutorials just a couple of days ago, that one hasn't been
loaded yet.
So take your chunk of candy melt and your grater and just grate it.
So you're grating that.
I'm going to use green.
I use a lot of green.
I use green coconut for grass.
I use green sprinkles for different grass effects.
We use green frosting.
We use so much grass.
But you can see there as I'm grating it...
Have a look at that!
There you've got yourselves some gorgeous green sprinkles.
And they're just made out of chocolates.
So they're going to taste exactly the same.
If you don't want coconut, if you don't want all the sugar that comes with sprinkles, do
that in a little bit of greaseproof paper, tip it into one of your little storage containers,
pop the lid one and that's good to store for a couple of months.
So there's just some really neat things that you can do with your candy melts, a few little
hints and tips there.
And hopefully it will lead to less candy melts wastage in your life.
As always, thanks very much for watching.