These cute molds came from Kitchim on Amazon and can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OM92VQQ, currently retailing for $18.50 with free Amazon Prime shipping. It comes with one brick mold, one small minifigure mold, and one mold with 4 larger minifigures and one JUMBO minifigure. I think the large one would be perfect for making a Lego guy soap with!
I used the brick and the smaller figure molds for my candy making adventure. Since I wasn't sure how great it'd turn out I just bought one cheap pack of vanilla candy melts from Hobby Lobby and broke them up into batches using food coloring to color the candies. I thought I had all the primary colors at home but I pretty much had yellow and green or neon orange and pink.
My first try did not go so well. The candy melted fast but I hadn't put any coloring in yet, so it ended up getting hardened every time I tried to further microwave it to melt. It was pretty chunky as I put it in the molds so it took shape, but did not take the details of each. I used around 30 candies for 5 bricks, and 20 candies for 4 mini figures.
My second attempt I use yellow coloring and it turned out much better. It wasn't super runny when I put it into the molds but pretty thin. If it had been actually runny like it was supposed to I think it would've turned out perfectly. My third batch I found some blue coloring, but not much, so added some green thinking it'd end up a dark blue and it ended up more of a greeny turquoise. That batch got kind of chunky again so didn't take perfectly, but better than the first since the molds had been broken in.
The molds were super easy to clean once I was finally done, and none of the dye stuck to them so they're ready to be reused for whatever else next! Even though the candies didn't turn out perfect they were sure yummy and my husband loved them!
*I received the reviewed product at a discount/free for my honest and unbiased review.
-Tara
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