Chocolate Making Supplies

Experience the Pleasure of Making Chocolate With Spotlight's Chocolate Making Supplies

Make your own amazing chocolates, cake decorations or other sweets with Spotlight's chocolate making kits and supplies. Whether you are dreaming of becoming the next top chocolatier or making some simple chocolate decorations for your cake, this range includes everything you could need to mould your way to success. Choose from delightful chocolate moulds in a whole host of different shapes and sizes, tools for melting chocolate, and amazing flavoured candy melts and chocolate ready to be shaped to your heart's desire.

Make Your Favourite Kind Of Chocolate At Home

No matter your taste in chocolate, Spotlight has what you need to make it at home. You can find high-quality buttons in white, milk and dark chocolate here that are easy to melt and add to your favourite desserts, fruit and candies. If you want to make coloured chocolate, our white chocolate buttons can be combined with oil or powder-based food colouring dyes to create incredible colours and even unique coloured chocolate ripple effects!

Chocolate Making FAQ

What is chocolate making?

Chocolate making is the art of melting chocolate buttons and turning them into liquid chocolate that can be shaped, drizzled, poured or used as a glaze. You can do this with milk, dark and white chocolate, as well as more unusual varieties like Ruby chocolate if you have it on hand. Melted chocolate can be eaten straight away in liquid form, added to another mixture or allowed to harden and then eaten as a solid chocolate bar or shape.

How can I temper chocolate at home?

Tempered chocolate is smooth, shiny and hard with a great snap. Objects dipped in tempered chocolate won't need to stay in the fridge, and will stay hard when stored at room temperature. Make sure to use chopped up, high-quality chocolate bars for melting over chocolate chips if you can!

Use the double boiler method (a saucepan filled with water and a metal or glass bowl over the top) instead of a microwave, and make sure to melt ⅔ of your chocolate first. Melt at around 45℃ for dark chocolate and 43℃ for milk and white - then remove from the heat. Add your remaining chocolate and mix until the temp drops to around 29℃, then reheat by placing the bowl back over the bowl for 5-10 seconds at a time until the temp goes back up to 32℃. And you're done!

How do I use candy melt?

To heat your candy melts to a liquid texture that is perfect for moulding you need to soften them first, and there are a number of ways that you can do this.

You can put your candy melt into a microwaveable bowl and microwave on the defrost setting for one minute. Stir thoroughly before continuing to microwave for 20 seconds, and stir after each interval until your candy melt is the right consistency.

You can also melt your candy using the double boiler method. Add water to the bottom of the pan and heat to a simmer. Remove from the heat and place your candy melt in a bowl, on top, stirring consistently until completely melted. If you are melting a significant amount, you can also use your slow cooker on the lowest setting where you can melt up to around 2kg of candy this way. However, it is not a suitable method when using only small amounts. It is also important not to overheat your mixture, as this will result in the candy melt losing its proper consistency.

What Else Can I Find At Spotlight?

More dessert-based products you can find here include:

• Cake decorating supplies - draw attention to your carefully-baked cake with the right candles, sparklers and cake toppers from this category.
• Cake and chocolate packaging and display - transport and display your cakes inside one of our cake boxes with viewing panels, or on one of our handy cake stands.
• Edible decorations - edible metallic leaf flakes, sprinkles, baubles and more can be used to create extra colour, shine and texture on your desserts.

Check out the baking and chocolate making hub for all our other dessert-based goodies!

Find The Right Chocolate Making Supplies At Spotlight

Ready to become a self-made chocolatier? Discover all our amazing chocolate making kits and ingredients online, where you can quickly pay and enjoy home delivery, or in store at your nearest Spotlight! Check out our cake toppings buying guide for everything you need to know about decorating desserts. And great projects to practice your chocolate making skills include our chocolate caramel layer cake, our raspberry tulip cheesecake and our chocolate unicorn bark.