Can I add food coloring to vanilla chips? I have the paste kind....

[Prairie~Phlox]

but I don't remember ever doing this. I want to make some lemon cake balls and I thought it would be nice to make the vanilla chips green. Any suggestions? I already have the vanilla chips, or I could just buy green dipping chips from Jo-Ann's, but thought the vanilla would taste better.

 

Thanks,

Phlox

[Swirl]

You can color them, but not with regular food coloring or even the cake kind that comes in the Wilton jars. It takes a special kind of coloring for candy melts. I think it maybe has to do with being oil based. Jo-Ann's should have it with their melts. It is usually sold in packages of 4 jars, they are about half the size of Wilton's. Primary colors may me your only choice, but you can mix those.

[Prairie~Phlox]

You can color them, but not with regular food coloring or even the cake kind that comes in the Wilton jars. It takes a special kind of coloring for candy melts. I think it maybe has to do with being oil based. Jo-Ann's should have it with their melts. It is usually sold in packages of 4 jars, they are about half the size of Wilton's. Primary colors may me your only choice, but you can mix those.

 

Thanks, I might just buy some green melting chips and add them to the white for a softer green.

[MorganClassicalPrep]

uhm. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that you definitely can NOT color white chips with the Wilton jars....

 

One batch of chocolate ruined. The cake balls ended up being a bust anyway, proving that I am just not meant to bake!! :glare: