Tarts made from an old candle

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A few days ago I found a small Yankee Candle jarred candle in the attic. It had accidentally ended up in a box with other things, laying on its side. Well, we had a really hot summer, and that candle was all kinds of melted and rehardened (from the recent cool temps) and deformed. Totally unburnable. Which sucked because it was almost a full candle.

So I started to think about if/how I could salvage it. Did some googling, and found out how to melt the wax and save the jar at the same time. I had some small, silicone cupcake liners that I wasn't using anymore, and decided to make little tarts for the candle warmer we have.


I started out in this small pot, but after filling the first few liners switched to a larger pot. Made the whole process much faster. Also, the whole kitchen smelled like lilacs!



I didn't fill them all the way, because our warmer is kind of small and I wanted to be able to break up the tarts to fit.



Popped them into the freezer for about an hour to set.



Took them out, peeled back the liners, and voila! They're 2 inches across, and probably about a quarter inch deep. Easy to snap in half.