SWEET FLAME

Light the candle. Watch it melt. Pour it over the cake. This is the birthday moment nobody at your table has seen before.

Edible candles are made of chocolate, cocoa butter, caramel, and solidified honey, cast around a food-safe cotton wick. You light one at the table, it burns like an ordinary candle for five minutes, and then it turns into a pool of hot, glossy sauce that you pour over ice cream, over a warm brownie, over roasted peaches, over the birthday cake it has been standing on. Then you snuff it out and everybody eats.

SWEET FLAME is a complete, text-only guide to dessert candles and the celebrations they were made for. No photographs, no vague hand-waving: every preparation is described in words you can actually cook from, with US customary and metric measures, exact temperatures, numbered steps, timings, yields, storage, and allergen labeling.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- 55 sweet candle recipes across six families: dark and milk chocolate, salted caramel and butterscotch, honey and warm spice, cocoa butter and vanilla, fruit and citrus, and tea, coffee and nut.

- 15 desserts built as canvases for a hot pour: vanilla ice cream, fudgy brownies, a plain birthday sponge, panna cotta, roasted peaches, buttermilk pancakes, meringue nests, baked apples, and more.

- A full safety chapter, placed first, covering food-safe cotton wicks, the adult-lights-it rule, hot fat and molten sugar, how to extinguish a flame correctly, and why water must never touch a fat fire.

- A dedicated section on children's parties and birthday cakes, written for tables where the guests are small and excited.

- The base method in two pages: eight moves that every candle in the book is a variation on.

- A staging chapter with a minute-by-minute running order, three ways to serve, and setups for birthdays, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, Christmas, New Year's Eve, brunches and gift-giving.

- Troubleshooting for every failure you will meet, conversion tables, and a full index of preparations.

- A clickable table of contents.