Make Your Own Halloween 2017 Molded Treats

Wilton Candy Melts -- Light Cocoa & White

Our first Halloween Treat Challenger for 2017 is Wilton, makers of all types of candy and baking good including ingredients and tools you can use either in your family kitchen or in a professional kitchen. I've known about them for years and from time to time I have used their candy melts to make molded treats and some of their other products for cupcake making and cake decorating. For last year's Halloween Treat Challenge we had a UK candy melt brand that I tested so this review may compare them to some degree but I tried theses Wilton ones and will focus on how they melted, molded, and tasted on their own. This year, through the Amazon Vine program I was sent Wilton Baker Decorator Candy Melt Bundle, Light Cocoa and White-- four bags of Wilton Candy Melts and two of these into our criteria for The Chocolate Cult because the Light Cocoa variety includes both powdered cocoa processed with alkali and powdered cocoa. Neither Amazon nor Wilton were aware that their request for a review on Amazon would result in a feature on this blog and their participation in our 9th Annual Halloween Treat Challenger. Other than the free bags of candy melts, no other form of compensation was received.

I have several candy molds for Halloween. Two types of pumpkins/jack o'lanterns, skulls, spiders, and ghosts as you can see in the photo to the left. I love the holiday! As a household we enjoy greeting trick or treaters and handing out candy as well as non-food items for kids with allergies or simple parents who don't want them eating a ton of candy. What I made to test out the Wilton Candy Melts are not the sort of treat you could hand out to the average trick or treaters because as a culture America has become hyper scared of "poisons" and "sharps" in candy on this spooky holiday. But making molded Halloween treats is great for parties or very close friends and family when they come by and ring your doorbell.

The big problem I had with getting the Wilton Candy Melts was that they partly melted either in transit or at the Amazon warehouse. How do I know. Check out this image of what I found inside of all the white and light cocoa bags when I opened them to varying degrees. In some cases only about 1/4 of the discs were fused together but at the other end almost the entire bag was melted and then resolidified.

In the photo to the left you can see that while the top looks like discs the bottom of this was all melted and fused together. Why does it matter if the candy melts were fused together?  It affects how long it takes to prepare the melts to be used to make candy or coating of other items.







If you have patience with this you can make some really cool looking treats for Halloween (or any holiday). In the photo below you can see that I dipped and drizzled cookies, made molded dark, milk, and white chocolates, and used candies in various shapes like bones, tombstones, ghost and skeletons. Of course, these treats are only good for parties that you host or that you go to because paranoia has killed homemade sweets to hand out to trick or treaters.

Homemade Treats Using Wilton Melts, 2017

If this candy melt bundle seems useful for you, check them out using our links and if you buy it, you help out The Chocolate Cult a little bit. However, since our goal is to help our Sisters and Brothers in Chocolate find what is best for you, I suggest finding Wilton Candy Melts in crafting stores, bakery supply shops, and perhaps even some grocery stores so you don't have to worry about them getting melted in transit and if they are you can take them right back to the store for an exchange.