~ Wax Pantry Cake Tutorial ~

Hi Friends...

I thought we would play with some wax today!

How about a tut on how to make these pretty pantry cakes!

 

     

 

Lets get started.

Start out with a thrift store crock pot. I paid 3.99 for mine.

Also pick up some thrift store candles. $.99 cents for the brown big one. $.50 cents for the small white one. I also added in left over candle bits I had from old candles.



If you melt the wax... and let it reharden... it will do this, cave in. The reason I let my reharden is because the color was to light so I turned off the pot and came back later when I had better supplies.

Below the pot here you will see walnut crystals. I added some of those but it still wasn't dark enough.



I ended up buying this Black candle dye from http://factorydirectcraft.com/catalog/products/1302_2580_2581-3357-12_oz_black_candle_dye_block.html

Next... you need some molds.

Any size or shape will do.

Again... Goodwill. Cheap.







I used a metal ladle to scoop my wax into my molds. I did not put anything on the molds for nonstick. I just took my chances.



I let them cool. Then popped them in the fridge for a few minutes then flipped the molds and the wax fall out.

And you get these...



You can see here how light the wax was before I added the black dye. Bottom is no dye... top is black dyed.

 

 

Here is a wax pantry cake before dusting.  

After it cools Rub it in cinnamon, coffee and cloves as much or as little as you want to.

You can even make big ones.

This one is 9”.

Arap with cheese cloth or brown paper. That’s it. Pretty easy!

 

 

Simple and fun to make!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats