Re: Where are the calories found in a candle?

What you are looking for is the quantity known as the Heat of Combustion. These 
values can be found in many reference books. I used the CRC Handbook of 
Chemistry and Physics for this answer. 

It also helps to know that a candle is made of wax and that the correct 
chemical name for wax is paraffin.

With that, we find a value of 10.340 Kg-calories per gram of paraffin.

Of course this is valid only if you actually burn the candle. Eating the candle 
will produce no calories because wax is indigestable.