Has anyone tried colouring Cake Covering (White chocolate) with Colour Gels?

[Katnisscupcake]

Hi there,

Thanks to the power of MN I have bought a Cake-Pop machine from Lakeland (I saw a thread on here about them a couple of weeks ago).

But the Candy Melts are soooo expensive, even on eBay and Amazon, but someone had recommended that Cake Covering (Silver Spoon do them in White, Milk and Dark Chocolate) works just as well and is cheaper.

Do you know whether you can use Cake Decorating Colour Gels (like you use for Buttercream etc) in these coverings, or does it stop them from going solid? I know the gels are preferable to the colours you can buy in supermarkets as the consistency of the buttercream is not impacted with them, is that the same for the Cake Coverings?

Either that or any other suggestions for covering Cake Pops in different colours?

Chocolate needs oil based colouring to stop it seizing and the cost of oil based colours (about £4.75 each) is worth it if you are going to make lots but if it's only a few the candy melts are fine. If you are using normal white choc it will also need tempering to make it set properly and shiny.

You could also use powder colours mixed with a little cocoa butter and add it to chocolate but again it is an expensive option.

Can you paint white chocolate - I'm sure you can seen on TV show www.choccywoccydoodah.com/

I'm considering doing something on a wedding cake but wonder about this and using metallic light shades.