Macaron Candle Making Class at Soigne Atelier in East Vancouver

The atelier is located on 393 Powell Street. In the heart of East Vancouver. Try to find metered parking right outside of the atelier.

You have to get past the gate before reaching the front door.

First, we scoop out 46 grams of soy wax chips and put it into a tall pot with a handle. Then we choose the desired fragrance. There are so many to choose from! I chose Vanilla, Chocolate and Bergamot Chamomile. The last one smells so delicate and heavenly.

Picking out the desired colour. It turns out only a very small amount is required so we have to cut up the dye chips into small pieces. We have to be careful not to use too much since it can change the composition of the finished candle.

We melt the soy chips along with the dye chip together in the tall pot immersed in a pan of hot water, mixing occasionally.

Once it’s all melted, we add 3-5 drops of fragrance oils into the mixture and then we pour it into the macaron molds. For each pair of “shells”, one is filled with a wick. Here, we can’t be too greedy. You’d think to add more fragrance for a more strong smelling candle but adding too much fragrance can affect the results of the finished candle.

The wax will begin to look opaque once it starts to set. We carefully move them to a cooler room by laying a hand underneath the tray to prevent the un-set wax from bending.

Once the wax dries completely, it will turn opaque. This takes about 40 minutes. We carefully pop them out from the mold. This is nerve racking since they might break if they are not fully set. Next we drill a hole into the top shell so it can accommodate the wick when we assemble it later.

An ivory white wax is melted and allowed to cool to a thick consistency which is then poured onto the bottom shell with the wick as the filling. This is the hardest part as you need to quickly assemble the shells together before the “filling” starts drying up. The teacher helped us with the pouring during this step.

After the filling sets, we use a big pair of sharp scissors to cut the wick down.

VOILA! Now we’re done!

I’m happy I finally had a chance to use the macaron plate I painted last February. I wasn’t able to find a good way to style it until now. Just loving both of these projects! Click to see my experience painting my own macaron plate.

I was trying to be oh so very careful when I was assembling the two shells together. I thought i was actually making a macaron in my kitchen (LOL!) but my instructor likes the spill out look so she helped me create this effect by adding more filling and pushing down more on the top shell.