My birthday is in a couple of weeks. Back near the beginning of 2025, I was offered the opportunity through the Amazon Vine program to test out edible, chocolate candles made by Let Them Eat Candles. I was sent two free samples – one dark and one milk chocolate variety – to test out. Rather than risk an unpleasant result from testing on my birthday, I tried them much earlier. Today I'm going to share the results of that test with The Chocolate Cult's readers. Note: no other form of compensation was received for my review on Amazon, this article is an unexpected bonus for the brand.
The candles are made of chocolate with a wax coated wick in the center. Don't eat the wick, but the candles are made to be eaten around the wick. Both are real chocolate, though both have milk and soy, so the dark chocolate candle isn't as dark as ideal which would only have chocolate liquor/mass, sugar, cocoa butter, and sometimes flavorings or lecithin/soy added. Both are decorated with colored designs and have a balloon theme to them.
I tested these by baking two half cakes and then placing the candles and watching them burn out to check and see if they work as candles but also to see if there is any melting of the chocolate onto the cake. As you'll see below, I place the dark chocolate on the cake in the clear glass pan and the milk chocolate one on the cake in the colored glass pan; I choose the colors to that the color of the candle would be more of a contrast. Try to ignore my weak frosting of the cakes; it was a weird day and the cakes were too sticky even though I let them cool for a long time (maybe too long?)
It takes almost two minutes for the wick in the dark chocolate candle to stop burning on it's own. Because the video was getting long, I blew them out above, so belong is the results of letting them burn down the rest of the way. I had to stick them down a fair amount into the cake to get them to stand up and that was a very average moisture cake. Note that the dark chocolate melted more and it also smoldered a lot longer. Chocolate can burnt but apparently not enough to feed the candle's flame.
The wicks are short as promised and thus easy to avoid. The milk chocolate candle ("Happy Birth Day") was meh tasting. I really didn't like it when I hit a section the colored image on it as much as the less decorated part. The dark chocolate candle was a much stronger chocolate flavor even overcoming much of the dye flavor, but not all of it. Even half an hour after it burnt itself out, the area around the wick was still melty to the touch. Both of them made a loud snap when I bit into them and were a challenge to break into pieces.
As of August 28, 2025, when I finalized this post, nothing is listed for sale at the Let Them Eat Candles Amazon page. There is no explanation, but the brand still has a website you can check out. However, it appears that you can only order in bulk and they are geared toward retailers not individual customers.
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