Budino Candle

A pudding set in wax, not custard. Meet the Budino - a strawberry-pink Italian dessert reimagined as a candle, its fluted rose body finished with piped rosettes and crowned with sugared wax strawberries, hand-poured by a six-generation Puglian atelier that has been shaping wax by hand since 1840. All the pleasure of a just-unmolded pudding, none of the refrigeration. Serve it on a coupe, a small marble plate, a stack of dessert books. Pair with the Cannoli for a dessert course that flickers. Looks like it should jiggle; please resist. Burn sparingly. Keep always.