Bacon Fat & Cinnamon Candle With Bonus Bacon Recipe

When I cook bacon, I always pour the bacon fat into a canning jar. I wondered if I could make a candle from the bacon grease, and use a cinnamon stick for a wick. Spoiler alert! I had to buy some candle wick to make it glow.

• Bacon
• Sheet pan
• Fork - to turn bacon
• Paper towels - to drain bacon
• Plate - for bacon
• 4 oz. Canning jar
• Cinnamon stick
• Beeswax coated candle wick
• Scissors
• Lighter
• Baking soda (in case of emergency grease flare up)

Place 4 slices of bacon on a baking sheet. Place in cold oven, turn oven on and cook 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Flip bacon, cook 8 minutes. Bacon will tell you it’s ready by showing a little bit of white bubbly foam, AND smelling delicious. Remove from sheet pan, drain on paper towels to demolish at your leisure.

Pour the hot bacon fat carefully into the jar. 4 slices of Wright’s bacon yielded exactly what I needed for this 4 oz. canning jar.

I chose a hollow cinnamon stick (foreshadowing??), then refrigerated the grease until it hardened.

My cinnamon wick was way too long for the jar, so I broke some off.

Side note, I didn’t want to waste those little pieces I broke off, so I used them in a pot of tasty tea. 😃

Add the cinnamon stick to the hardened bacon fat.

I waited til nightfall, and took my candle, lighter, and emergency baking soda outside to light the candle

While the bacon was delicious, this cinnamon wick didn’t stay lit 🔥🥲.

Not one for giving up, I assessed the problem.

1. The cinnamon stick was too long.
2. Cinnamon is tree bark, but it wouldn’t burn on its own. 🤔

My solution? I bought a pack of beeswax coated candle wick, and forged onward.

I shortened the hollow cinnamon stick by breaking it, then used a piece I broke off to make a hole inside the cinnamon stick in the bacon fat so I could insert the candle wick. I eyeballed a piece of wick to feed down the cinnamon stick, and used scissors to trim the wick so it would burn into the bacon fat.

Let’s light it up 🔥!

Hooray! Never give up! Thanks for following along on my Bacon Fat & Cinnamon Candle making adventures. 🔥