Holiday Chocolate Lollipops

Dec 20, 2009

This year for Christmas I decided I would make gifts instead of buying them. While I was at Michael's getting some packaging for my treats,  I came across a Candy Making Kit and decided to give it a shot. I've never worked with chocolate before so I did not know what to expect. It came with 3 trays of molds, 4 different colored chocolate chips, a paint brush, lollipop sticks, and small plastic bags with ties. It looked simple enough, just pour and set right? As I read the instruction further the chocolate had to be melted in the microwave. Since I'm not a big fan of microwaves I decided to melt the chocolate in a double boiler instead. Once melted, I dipped the brush to the color and painted the mold. It wasn't really painting like painting a canvas, you had to lay it on thick to give it the color you want otherwise it'll be translucent and it wouldn't show at all. It was quite time consuming but relaxing at the same time. After painting the mold, I placed the lollipop stick into place, poured the melted chocolate, and refrigerated it for 30 minutes. The 3 chocolate lollipops turned out better than expected.