How to Make Realistic Food-Scented Candles

Food-scented candles warm up a home.

Burning food-scented candles can make a home smell inviting and feel more cozy. You can create candles that smell like cinnamon rolls, coffee, baked cookies or apple pie. The candles can be made from paraffin, beeswax or soy, but beeswax is the most natural and healthful of the three. Dipping candles can be accomplished easily by following these steps.

Things You'll Need

• Double boiler
• Water
• Empty coffee can
• 1 pound beeswax pellets
• Stove
• 1/4 cup fragrance oil
• 18 inch candlewick
• 2 clay bricks
• Wooden paint stirrer

Instructions

1. 

   Fill the bottom of a double boiler 1/2 full of water. Place an empty coffee can full of the beeswax pellets into the top part of the double boiler. Heat the double boiler on a stove over medium heat until the beeswax melts completely. Once the wax is melted, turn the heat down to low.

2. 

   Pour 1/4 cup of fragrance oil into the melted beeswax. Stir the wax well, mixing the oil in thoroughly. You can choose any fragrance oil you wish, but to make the candles smell like realistic food, select an oil scented like baked goods, beverages or fruit.

3. 

   Dip both ends of an 18-inch piece of candlewick into the hot wax, one at a time. Dip them in for a count of 2: down (one one-thousand), up (two one-thousand.) Do not hold the wick in the wax too long, or the wax will melt back off into the coffee can. When the candles reach the size you want, turn the stove off.

4. 

   Cool the candles by placing the middle of the wick on top of a wooden painting stick and placing the painting stick lengthwise between 2 clay bricks. Let the candles cool completely before burning them.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep small children away from hot beeswax.

Resources

• Food-scented fragrance oils
• Beeswax pellets
• Candle-making kit
• Candle wicks
• Clay bricks