Making great looking letters and numbers with candy has been a problem in the past, but not so any more. Here is a product called Letter Ice (and the numbers are called, appropriately, Number Ice). They are silicone letter and number molds. They are great for ice, jello, butter, chocolate, shortbread cookies, muffins, lollipops, etc. I made some lemonade ice cubes with them and my daughter loved them and I made a “7″ cube to put in her drink on her 7th birthday.
I didn’t get to try making some candy with them – I’m more of a candy eater than a candy maker. The pictures on the website do make it look easy to do though. The only problem for me is that for me to spell CANDYADDICT I would have to do multiple batches (2 C’s, 2 A’s, 3 D’s) or buy multiple mold sets. The company is currently looking for a distributor so hopefully we will see these in stores soon.
Actually, these molds were sold online at http://www.dvo.com, a cooking website. I purchased the set, but it has not yet arrived. I just checked to see if the letter & number sets were still available, but could not locate the item. So, they have been available, but I don’t know if they will be again.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pmI just checked back with http://www.dvo.com and noticed that they have again listed the silicone letters and numbers candy/ice molds at http://www.dvo.com/products_tools.html – thought you might want to know.
June 6th, 2008 at 12:44 am