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How to Make a Candy Melt (or chocolate) Bow

To make the candy bow:

1- Determine how wide across you want the bottom of the bow to be. Let's work with 8", for example.

2- Cut strips of freezer paper in the width you want your loops to be. One inch wide or so is good. Then, cut these strips into different lengths- some will be 8", some 7", some 6" and some 5" - make a few even shorter. The number of each length will decrease with the length. (More 8 than 7, more 6 than 5, etc...) Make extra in case of breakage.

3- Working on more freezer paper (shiny side up) or waxed paper, spread melted candy melts as evenly as possible over the shiny side of your strips. Leave a bit at one end uncoated, so you can handle it. Run your fingers down the edges of the strip, to clean it off. You will coat 3 or 4, then form the "loops" from the first ones. You will need to watch the coated ones, and when they begin to lose their gloss it's time to form them into the bow's loops. Fold over the one uncoated end, and stand it on its side keeping the loop open in the middle, and match up the melted candy. Pinch it together. You may need to hold it for a few seconds. Do a couple & determine how long you can wait to form the loop. Too soon, and you have a melty mess. Too late, and you just have a cracked piece of candy.

4- Okay, now you have all these loops formed, and you've let them set up completely. Now it's time to peel off the freezer paper. It should come off cleanly if you ran your fingers down the edges while the candy was melted. Peel all the loops.

5- Assembling the bow: Begin with a 'blop' of melted candy melts on a sheet of waxed or freezer paper on a firm, moveable surface (cookie sheet, cake circle, etc...). Using the largest loops, form a circle of the loops by inserting the pinched end of each one into the 'blop'. Try to keep them as close together as possible. You may want to trim the pinched ends into a slight taper to fit them closer together. DON'T hold the loops in your hand for too long, the heat from your body will begin to melt them. Continue adding layers of loops, using smaller ones for each layer and adding more blops of melted melts as needed to hold the bow together. You will finish the top with 2 or 3 of the smallest ones, straight up. Then place in the frig or allow to set at room temperature until hardened.

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