How I Made the Candy Buttons

The candy buttons are pretty easy to make, just time consuming. I bought a candy mold, ($1.99,) at my local cake decorating store, (you can all so find them online,) and a couple of bags of white candy melts and oil based candy coloring at Micheals. (Using my 40% off coupons.) The button molds are pretty small, the size of real buttons, so I put the melted candy in a disposable cake decorating bag to fill them. I popped the filled mold into the freezer for about 5 minutes. Once the candy is cold I took the mold out of the freezer, bent it slightly to help release the candy, then turned it upside down on my kitchen counter and tapped the back with a wooden spoon to get the buttons out. There were always a few that would be stuck, so I pried them out with a pin. The directions on how to melt and color the candy is on the back of the candy bag. For the coloring I bought basic primary colors, (red, yellow, blue,) and mixed them to get the colors you see in the buttons. Viola! Candy buttons!

Megan and Matthew.

The Cake!

Candy Buttons

Instead of crafting, I've been making these:



Hundreds of candy buttons for my daughters wedding cake.



She is getting married in our back yard on Saturday. Sunday I turn her bedroom into my craft studio.
I'm looking forward to being able to work on projects whenever I want and not having to think about cleaning up and putting stuff away all the time.... meaning I'll be able to post more crafty ideas!