How to Use Edible Wax

Edible wax candy lips often have fruit flavors.

You might remember chewing on edible wax lips when you were a kid or nibbling on little wax bottles after you drank the juice inside. Edible wax -- or paraffin wax -- is used for many other things in addition to candy. It's often used as a preservative and provides a shiny coating on fruits, vegetables and cheese. Paraffin wax is also used in crayons, so needless to say, not all paraffin wax is edible. Does this Spark an idea?

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Double boiler
Paraffin wax
Candy molds

Instructions

- 1
  
  Decide what you would like to use the edible wax for. For example, you can make edible birthday candles, hearts, lips or use it in a candy recipe. If you were to make wax lips, for example, you will need red food dye. No matter what you choose to make, you will need a double-boiler to melt the wax, and molds if you plan on making edible candy.
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  Melt the wax in the double-boiler. Follow a recipe that incorporates wax such as buckeye candy. This involves mixing peanut butter, powdered sugar and butter, rolling it into balls and dipping it in melted chocolate and paraffin wax. It helps the chocolate to mold on to the candy and acts as a preservative as well. You can use the molds for just a chocolate and wax mixture or substitute the chocolate with red food coloring and sugar to make shapes such as hearts.
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  Enjoy the edible treats. Whether you make edible lips or edible birthday candles for a top of the cake, it's an added bonus to be able to eat something unexpected. But there are many delicious candy recipes that call for paraffin wax and you would never know the tasty treat has wax in it.