For Beginners
Making your own chocolates is lots of fun and it is so easy.
With any purchase from Choc Art, you will receive instructions and after sales support by email. Why not give it a try!- To make basic solid chocolates, you will need:
Chocolate mould or moulds. They come in many shapes and sizes. To view a huge range of moulds, please check out our store. Here are a view popular moulds.
Compound melting buttons (dark, white and milk). We recommend Cadbury Compound buttons. Ring Cadbury to find your local distributor.
Equipment you will find in your kitchen (glass bowl, metal spoon etc).
- To make coloured chocolates, you will need special powder colours (do not use water based colours), white melting buttons, suitable chocolate mould/s, good brushes and several pots to separate colours (a patty pan cake tin or muffin tray is ideal). Check out the colouring powders in the store and Hints for coloured chocolate ideas!
- To make soft centred chocolates, you will need mould/s that are deep enough. Fondant moulds are ideal as they are deep and they make your home made chocolates look like ones that you buy from the shops. Filling for soft centres can be home made, for instructions and ideas please see our Soft centres HINTS page!
- To make solid flavoured chocolates, you will need same as solid chocolates as above plus, flavouring OIL (not essence or water based), an eye dropper to control the amount of oil used. Most flavouring oils are quite strong and concentrated. You need only a few drops per cup of chocolate. You can always add more to taste. After Dinner Mints are perfect when flavoured with your favourite taste. Our Choc Art store after dinner mint category has after dinner mint moulds. Flavouring oils can be purchased from most cake decorating shops, but make sure you purchase oils and not water based flavours.
