Scared of cake
Have you ever seen a child afraid of cake. Lily was scared to death of her birthday cake. This is a child that, age 5 months, ripped the top off my cupcake and smeared it all over her face and mouth.
Could this be because she touched her lit candle? By the way, melting white stuff is not necessarily flesh, it could possibly be candle wax. After being shown what to do, she eventually got the hang of it.
