Edible Butter Candle Cookbook: 60 Exquisite Sweet and Savory Butter Candle Recipes for Holiday Entertaining, Dinner Parties, and Impressive Bread Boards

The candle you light, then eat. Butter candles are the centrepiece of the season — and this is the first book that tells you how to make one that holds its shape, burns cleanly, and is safe to leave on the table.

Sixty sweet and savory butter candles, one to a page, each with its set time and a tested keeping time printed at the top. Roasted garlic and herb. Cranberry orange for Thanksgiving. A Christmas herb wreath. Cinnamon roll for brunch. Café de Paris and beef tallow for steak night. A three-wick ring and a pillar for a table of twenty.

Before any recipe come fourteen pages the viral videos skip:

• The wick — why craft-store wick never belongs in food, and what to use instead
• Food safety — the two-hour table rule, and why a garlic candle keeps four days, not four weeks
• The two methods — packed and pour-set, and the one step that stops everything sinking
• Moulds — what a ramekin, a muffin tray and a deli tub each make, and how many they serve
• Building your own — how much liquid, oil, cheese or honey butter will take before it splits

Inside you will find:

• 60 candles in six parts: Savoury Classics, Holiday & Seasonal, Sweet, Around the World, Rich & Showstopping, and Shapes, Swaps & Special Diets (ghee, cultured and dairy-free)
• A candlemaker's note on every recipe naming the exact mistake it invites
• Troubleshooting for spitting, slumping, splitting and candles that will not pool
• Candles by occasion, a season calendar, a flavour index, and a make-ahead plan for your first candle night

Plain instructions, weights and cups, no filler. Make one this weekend and it will be the thing your guests photograph first — and finish last.