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Goddess Cookies

Hello friends! I’m back again with another delicious recipe but this time it’s a dessert! These sugar cookies are delicious and perfect for a small offering to the God and Goddess during Litha or anytime really. The edible flowers on top make them really stand out!

Ingredients

2 cups of softened Sweet Cream Salted Butter

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tablespoons of vanilla

4 teaspoons of baking powder

6 cups of flour

Optional

Your favorite edible flowers, dried and chopped into bits

Sun and moon shaped cookie cutters

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer until all the way combined. Be careful not to overmix

Add vanilla and eggs and let thoroughly mix

Add baking powder and mix

Add flour but two cups at a time

Roll a hand fulls of the dough out at a time and cut out into suns and moons (if you chose to do this)

Bake cookies at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 6-8 minutes

Sprinkle with your cookies with your favorite edible flower bits

Enjoy how pretty they look and how delicious they are!

This recipe was borrowed from:

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Perfect Bread:

I absolutely love this recipe! The bread is soft, and is perfect for sandwiches, French toast, and pretty much everything you can think of. I don’t want to buy bread from the store ever again!

6 Cups all-purpose flour

2 ½ Cups very warm water

2 Tbsp. Active dry yeast

2 Tbsp. Sugar

1 tsp. Salt

1 Tbsp. Butter

Combine warm water, yeast, and sugar and let sit until the surface is foamy (If it’s doesn’t foam, the yeast doesn’t work).

When yeast is activated, add 3 cups of the flour, the salt, and the butter. Mix until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes.

Once mixture is smooth, add the remaining 3 cups of flour. I recommend folding the flour in until fairly combined before kneading.

Once combined, knead dough for 6-8 minutes in a stand mixer, or 8-10 minutes by hand.

Form dough into a ball, cover with plastic wrap or a cloth, and let rise for 45 minutes.

Cut dough into 2-3 equal pieces and place into a buttered bread pan, and brush melted butter (or olive oil). Allow to rise in the loaf pans for an additional 10-15 minutes. (🍞 Tip: Use a small knife to make a slit longways across the bread to prevent splitting along the side of the bread.)

Bake bread in a 375°F oven for 30 minutes uncovered, and and additional 10 minutes covered in foil to prevent excess browning.

Makes 2-3 loaves of bread.

🌷🐸Ostara🐰🌿

I love this time of year! Spring is one of my favorite seasons. Life if returning to the earth and my birthday is a few days after the equinox. Here’s how I’m celebrating this extra special time of year🌱🥚

Colors🌈

All pastel colors! I like to emphasize yellow for daffodils, blue and green for new life, and pink for the other spring flowers

Altar decorations🐰

🐣Animal figurines/stuffed animals lambs, chicks, deer, frog, and bunnies are great choices for this time of year. You can even make clay figurines of the animals you see around you.

🥚 painted or plastic eggs

💐Flowers/Plants/Seeds/Sprouts

🌷A vision board/representations of things you wish to get done

☀️Solar symbols

Spell themes🐸

🌱 Renewal

💫Cycles

🌳Balance

🍃Getting rid of negative thoughts, cycles and patterns

Plants 🌱

🌼Daffodils (my favorite)

🌷Tulips

🌱Crocuses

🌺Hyacinth

🌿Thyme

💜Lavender

🌳Rododendron

🌸Hellebore

Food 🥘

🍳 Eggs

🥛 Milk

🥐Baked goods

🥖Bread

🍵Peas

🥕Carrots

🍋Lemons

🥦Any in season vegetables where you live

Ways to celebrate 💐

🎨Paint eggs with friends

🌳Go for a walk, taking notice of the new spring plants and animals

🌅Wake up at sunrise and hear the birds chirping

🍰Bake and cook while putting your intentions into the food

🌱Start your garden by filling an eggshell with dirt and planting the seed in the eggshell. Say your intention while planting so it manifests as the seed grows

🖌Make Ostara themed art, doodles, and crafts

🧺Have a picnic or tea party

🎵Sing, dance, and make music

I hope everyone has a wonderful Ostara and let me know if you try any of these🐣

KITCHEN WITCHERY

Kitchen witchery is a versatile and easy form to bring magick into your daily life. It is a warm, nurturing and down-to-earth way to practice magick and it is a fantastic path to try if you are broom closeted and need to keep your craft secret or outwardly invisible to others.

It defines every kind of magickal working that combines cooking, baking or culinary mixing and witchcraft. You could even stretch the definition as far as to include magickal crafting or work that is done in the kitchen.

Kitchen witchery can be performed in two different ways:

food rituals;

kitchen magick.

Birthdays and weddings are considered a food ritual because of the cake and candles  – it is a means of happiness, good luck and for your wish to come true. It is about eating together and the celebration of the event that is taking place. Witches usually have celebratory meals when it comes to Sabbaths.

Kitchen magick is the practice of manipulating the energy that’s around us and in the food, making an intention known and trying to have it manifested.

Food is a magickal tool that can help you in immense ways!

A kitchen witch is someone that practices their witchcraft in the kitchen and weaves their magick into the food they prepare. 

There are different types of kitchen magick, such as:

ENERGETIC MAGICK

Energetic magick is all about infusing food with energy and intention. This can be done through meditating on or visualizing a certain outcome, feeling an emotion or goal that will be worked into the food.

Common ways to do so is to stir it with a wooden spoon or simply mindfully blessing a meal.

RUNE, SYMBOL AND SIGIL MAGICK

Rune, symbol and sigil magick usage is a common way to work magick in the kitchen. This can be done by drawing them into pie crusts, bread and stirring them into sauces or into your morning coffee. You can also draw, carve or burn them on your cooking tools for different goals. This way you can draw a specific intention into your food.

MAGICKAL HERBALISM

You can infuse your morning coffee with magic ingredients, like cinnamon or vanilla, and stir it with intention.

MEDICINAL HERBALISM

If you are working with spells of health and healing, it is worth looking into herbs as they not only have magickal properties, but also medical.

INTENTIONAL COOKING

It is important to choose the method that resonates with you and your needs. Make your kitchen a space where you feel comfortable and at ease.

Every act of cooking and preparation can be infused with magick and carry energetical significance – for example, washing your hands and ingredients can be used to cleanse negative energies or anything undesirable.

Kitchen witchery is free and not fixed, so you don’t really need anything. A lot of witches love using tools, such as:

cups, bowls and pots possess loving energies. Rounded pots and bowls are generally associated with Goddess energy, as they were most commonly used to feed and nourish others in older times – they hold and contain sacred food, which is our key to life. Pots are associated with The Great Mother.

        Element: Water;

the oven is seen as a symbol of the Divine, as well as transformation. Ovens have been used in various forms for many years and thus are preferable to newer inventions like microwaves when magickally cooking.

        Element: Fire;

plates and platters generally represent the Physical world, money and abundance. They are ruled by the Sun.

        Element: Earth;

spoons are mini bowls on handles, so they strongly correlate with bowls.

       Element: Water;

forks are sacred, as they are the main tool for eating. They are ruled by Mars.

       Element: Fire;

knives are associated with life and death, as knives can be used to bring about both stabbing and cutting food to eat. They are ruled by Mars.

       Element: Fire.

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Hello! I’m Mai!

I’m restarting my blog from scratch, after a too-long hiatus, and I figured an introduction was in order.

I go by Mai on this blog, and I recently came out of the broom closet in a family of (very accepting) Christians. I’m a faerie witch, and I love plants and excel at divination. This blog will focus on those and basics, and the grimoire. That being said, this is a safe place, so no terfs, no racists, etc. Fight me.

My hobbies are drawing, writing, and making jewelry. I live in that one awkward part of the US where we aren’t really the South, but aren’t really Midwest either. I’m currently trying to balance 97 different things during this pandemic (including the pandemic 🥲).

I am here for any witches who need me, or are in a situation similar to mine- broom closeted, or trying to transition out of it. Feel free to drop an ask!

Edit: I have created a Silmarilion sideblog, so if you enjoy my Silmarilion content, go there. @mai-youdumbass