Wow, what an interesting recipe! You use a nut, sliver of pineapple or an orange peel for a wick. This was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Holiday Candle Salads

Eight-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
Three tbsps. confectioners’ sugar
One-half cup mayonnaise
One-half cup chopped nuts
One-fourth cup lemon juice
One can jellied cranberry sauce
Ten 3 1/2 oz. paper drinking cups

Mix thoroughly cream cheese, sugar and mayonnaise, then stir in nuts. Fill paper cups half full; cover; put in freezer.

After first mixture is frozen, fill cups with cranberry mixture; cover: return to freezer. Just before serving peel off paper cup and place on salad greens with cheese mixture on top. Use nut, sliver of pineapple or orange peel for wick. Salads can be taken from freezer and put in refrigerator.