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Painting With Chocolate

By Cindy Hopper

We are painting with chocolate to celebrate National Candy Month! What a yummy month!

Butterfly Pencil Pop Supplies

All these supplies can be found in a cake and candy supply store.

  1. Chocolate candy mold with reservoir for pencil pop
  2. plastic pencil pops
  3. candy coating discs
  4. ziploc freezer bags and or plastic squeeze bottles
  5. inexpensive paint brushes and pencils.

Chocolate butterfly pop supplies (candy molds, chocolate, pencils)

Instructions:

Melt a couple of candy discs in the microwave. Melt at 30 second intervals until just melted. Paint the indentations on the chocolate mold.

painting with chocolate

Place a plastic pencil pop in the reservoir.

chocolate butterfly design

Melt more candy coating in the microwave (each butterfly took about 15 discs) in a microwave safe bowl. Place melted candy in a ziploc bag. The candy coating can also be placed in a plastic bottle and heated in hot water (not boiling) and kept warm on the stove. Be careful to not let any water get into the candy coating, as it will make it curdle.

melted chocolates in baggies

Snip of the lower corner of the ziploc bag and fill the chocolate molds. Tap the mold to release any air bubbles and to help the candy settle into the mold.

decorating with melted chocolate

Allow candy to completely harden. You can place the mold into the freezer for a few minutes to speed up the process.

chocolate butterflies

When hard, the candy will slip right out of the mold. Place pencils into the plastic and you have a beautiful and yummy treat!

painted chocolate butterfly pencil pop

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About the Author

Cindy Hopper

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has cont...

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy’s family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects.

Cindy’s personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.

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