Ice Cream Sundae With a Cherry on Top Candle

I wanted to create a "Make It Glow" Instructable but I wasn't sure what I could make. I have made some candles for other Instructables in the past so I needed a new idea. Here are the links:

https://www.instructables.com/Ice-Luminary/

https://www.instructables.com/Oyster-Shell-Candles/

Candles do glow so I just had to think of what project I could make. I wanted to use things that I already have on hand. I started with a glass sundae dish. That could work. We had found quite a few old candles that we would either throw away ......or...... I could make something out of them. I wasn't sure that I could really make a candle that looks like a sundae. I do enjoy just seeing how my experiments come out! So, here is how I made my "Ice Cream Sundae with a Cherry On Top Candle"! I really had fun making it!!

Supplies

Ice cream sundae glass

assorted candles

small saucepan

spoon

tape

wick

candy mold

silicone egg mold

silicone hot chocolate bomb mold

small plate

toothpick

sharp knife

Step 1: Clean the Candles

Wash and wipe off any dust or dirt from the candles if they are like mine which is used and very old. They look much better!

Step 2: Melt the First Candle

Place the first candle into the saucepan to melt on the stove over medium heat. I used pink which represents strawberry or cherry flavored ice cream. This candle will form the bottom scoop and third scoop of ice cream.

Step 3: Pour Into the Mold

Melt as much candle wax as needed. Pour the melted wax into one of the egg molds.

Step 4: The Bottom Layer

Pour some melted pink wax into the sundae glass. Put the wick into the center of the wax. Place 2 pieces of tape across the top of the glass to hold the wick in place while the wax hardens around it. When the wax is hard, remove the tape and discard it.

Step 5: Add a Toothpick

As the pink wax becomes firm in the egg mold, place a toothpick in the center. And as the candle wax hardens, move the toothpick around to make sure there is a hole down the center.

Step 6: Start Making the Cherries

I liked that there was a short burned wick on the top of the old red taper candle. I decided to cut that part off to make a cherry. Melt some of the same red candle in the saucepan.

Step 7: Form the Cherries

Pour melted red candle wax into 2 candy mold compartments. Add the cut red candle with the wick sticking out to one compartment. Allow both compartments to partially set. Remove each "cherry" with a spoon. Mold the wax to make cherry shapes. Cherries are not usually perfectly round. Break off a piece of toothpick and stab it into the cherry that doesn't have a wick. That will be the cherry stem.

Step 8: Melt White Candles

Wipe out any melted wax that remains in the saucepan. Add white candles. Melt completely over medium heat. Remove the wicks from the melted wax.

Step 9: Pour It!

Pour the melted white wax into 2 of the chocolate bomb molds. When the wax starts to firm up, add a toothpick to the center of one of the molds. As the wax hardens, move the toothpick around to be sure it is making a hole for the wick.

Step 10: Pull It

Before the white candle that doesn't have the toothpick in it hardens, pull it apart a little so it will be a wider layer in the sundae.

Step 11: Push the Toothpick

Unmold the white candle that has the toothpick in the center. Move the toothpick around to make sure the hole goes all of the way through.

Step 12: Melt the Dark Candle

Wipe out the saucepan. Add the dark candle. Melt about 1/2 of it over medium heat.

Step 13: Chop It!

Place melted wax on a work surface in a thin layer. When hardened, pry it off of the surface with a knife and chop it up. This will be the sprinkles.

Step 14: Melt Another White Candle

Wipe out the saucepan. Melt another white candle over medium heat. Drizzle the melted white wax on a plate. When almost hardened, pry it off with a knife. This will be the melty ice cream around the rim of the sundae glass.

Step 15: Start Putting It Together!

Add the broken white candle to the sundae glass, pulling the wick through the center. Then add a few of the dark "sprinkles".

Step 16: Next Layer!

If the pink candle is too tall, cut off some of the bottom with a sharp knife. Place it onto the sundae with the wick going through the hole.

Step 17: Add the Rim

Add the white wax to cover the rim of the sundae glass.

Step 18: Top It!

Top the sundae with the white candle, pushing the wick through the hole.

Step 19: Complete It!

Add the cherry with the burned wick to the top. Scatter some dark sprinkles. I had an extra white piece of wax so I used it as a melted drip of ice cream on the bottom. And I put the other cherry at the bottom.

Step 20: Light It!

It looks so pretty when you light the wick!!

Step 21: Enjoy!!

You can either burn the candle or blow it out before the cherry starts to burn. I hope you enjoyed seeing how I made my ice cream sundae candle!!! It was so very much fun to make!!!