Nonpareils Made The Easy Way!

Making your own nonpareils is lots of fun and easy! Once you know how, you'll be making them for family, friends and for gifts. Here's how!

Supplies needed to make nonpareils.

Supplies Needed:

• Small cake pan (507-2180)
• Nonpareils (Any color)
• Squeeze bottle (CK81-7)
• Chocolate (MM)

*Remember, you can use any size cake pan with a lip. Any color nonpareils and you can use milk, dark, white or any color chocolates.

How to make nonpareils:

1. Fill the bottom of a cake pan with with nonpareils. Make sure there is a thick layer, approx 1/2".
2. Melt chocolate in a microwave. We suggest 1 lb. at a time in a plastic bowl on 1/2 power for 30 seconds at a time. Stir after each 30 seconds until chocolate is melted. Be sure you do not over heat the chocolate or it will get thick and lumpy.
3. Squeeze bowl and gently pour melted chocolate into squeeze bottle.
4. Squeeze dots of chocolate on top of nonpareils until there is no more room.
5. Place pan into freezer for approx. 5 to 10 miniutes.
6. Remove completed nonpareils from pan, and shake pan to flatten nonpareils.
7. Repeat.
8. When pan is in the freezer chilling, place squeeze bottle with melted chocolate in a pan of hot water. this will keep the chocolate melted until you're ready to use it.

Small nonpareils made with milk chocolate.

*If you want to make larger nonpareils just squeeze out larger circles!
Clean up:  (It's just as easy)

1. Empty any extra chocolate from squeeze bottle back into plastic bowl that you melted your chocolate in.
2. Put bowl and squeeze bottle into freezer until hardened.
3. Squeeze bottle and all the chocolate that is stuck to the side will come off and empty into a bag.
4. Squeeze bowl and all the chocolate will crack away and put that into a bag.
5. Store chocolate at room temperature until the next time you make candy.

Large nonpareils made with milk chocolate.

 Enjoy and have fun!!!

Bite Size Cakes and Nonpareils

MMMM very tasty and easy to make!

Bite size heart cakes and nonpareils.

 

First lets start with the nonpareils.
Supplies Needed:

• Nonpareils, we used white ones (NON-WHI1)
• 1 lb. Merckens dark (MD)
• Squeeze bottle (CK81-5)
• a small cake pan

1. Fill bottom of small cake pan with nonpareils, approx. 1/4" thick.
2. Melt down chocolate either in a microwave, on low heat or on top of a double boiler. Make sure you do not boil the water.
3. Pour chocolate into squeeze bottle.
4. Squeeze small circles on top of nonpareils.
5. Place pan in freezer for 5 minutes.
6. Take pieces out of pan, shake pan gently to spread out nonpareils evenly and squeeze again.

That's it! It is sooo easy!!! And tasty too!

For the bite size heart cakes.
Supplies Needed:

• Bite size heart cake pan. (2105-2588)
• Your favorite chocolate and or vanilla cake.
• Your favorite chocolate and or buttercream icing.
• Decorator tip # 16. (402-16)
• Disposable decorator bags. (AT-460)
• Chocolate. We used white, red, pink and dark chocolate.
• Valentines Day sugar and nonpareils.
• Red, white & pink heart confetti. (CON-HRWP)
• Red heart charm sugar decorations. (L-14364)
• Tiny triple heart icing decoration. (KC-8212)
• Squeeze bottle (CK-81-5)

1. Grease and flour pan or use cooking spray.
2. Bake mini cakes, let cool, before taking out of pan use a serrated knife and cut off mounds. (They will sit flat.)

For decorating them: They are indented a little like a dessert shell so on some of them we used a squeeze bottle and filled in the center with chocolate and then drizzled a different color chocolate on top. Some we filled with chocolate and then let it dry, then sprinkled a little coarse sugar on top. If it's done that way the sugar will only stick to the drizzled area. On others we used the decorator bag with tip # 16 attached and piped icing in the center and then we put sprinkles & confetti's on some, sugar & icing decorations on others.

The fun part is you can use your imagination

and decorate them with different combinations that you like best.