Yes, but you must heat the coloring first to make it the same temperature as the chocolate. Add the gel very gradually and mix the chocolate well, as some gel coloring gets quite lumpy. To color Candy Melts, add Wilton Candy Colors to Candy Melts a little at a time. Mix thoroughly before adding more color.

Adding a water based food coloring to your chocolate will destroy it! When you use coloring oil to color white chocolate, think of them as mixing a colored paint with white paint – you create the depth of color/tint that you want by adding a few drops at a time to the melted white chocolate.

Gel food coloring is made out of synthetic coloring with water and a corn syrup or glycerin base. The corn syrup and/or glycerin give it a very viscous texture. Therefore, this form of food coloring is very concentrated and not as “liquidy” as liquid food coloring.

there is a good substitute for candy melt and that is white chocolate. You just need to melt it over water bath or microwave gently with a small amount of shortening or crisco and will work fine like candy melt.

Can you add food coloring to white candy melts? Candy melts contain oil, so you’ll need to use oil-based food coloring — the standard set of liquid food colors from the supermarket’s baking aisle won’t work. White candy melts give you the blank canvas you need to make custom colors.

Just add drops of the food coloring directly into your melted chocolate until you achieve the desired shade. Water-based gel colors like the Alan Tetreault Select Gel colors can also be used but ONLY if you add lecithin along with the gel colors to your chocolate. The ratio required is 5 to one.

This food colouring from Wilton is based on concentrated oil based. This colouring easily colours Candy Melts en Deco Melts, but is also great for melted chocolate. Four oil-based colors are specially formulated to work with candy. Set contains the following colours: yellow, orange, red, blue.

These gels are designed to color candy and baked goods without adding liquid to the recipe and possibly ruining it. If the only food coloring you can find is water- based, such as McCormick’s, DO NOT simply dump the food coloring into the melted chocolate.

Because red food color can turn white chocolate pink, be sure to purchase a dye that is slightly darker than the red you want. Use powder or oil-based dyes only. Water-based dyes will cause the chocolate to seize. If you are using an oil-based dye, remember that too much of it can cause the chocolate to taste bitter.