#baking magic

[meowlicious-food]

Read Full recipe here 👉⋆Savory Cheesy Garlic Cruffins: Seriously, Bake This Magic!⋆

[cassandrasage]

Embracing the Seasons: Celebrating Beltane and Samhain in the Kitchen

Greetings Ladles and Gentlespoons! If you are in a rush and want to Jump straight to the Recipe Ancestor Blessing Bread for Samhain and Beltane, go right ahead! And if you are not a practitioner of magic, don’t worry, this dish will still taste magical! As the wheel of the year turns, we find ourselves at a fascinating crossroads: Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere and Samhain in the Northern…

[stardustandrockets]

What's a book you've read that's set in your city/state/area?

It's not often I read books I'm actually interested in that are set in my state. I can think of maybe three in recent years off the top of my head: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Ander & Santi Were Here, and this one—The Heartbreak Bakery.

The Heartbreak Bakery was a book that had been consistently recommended by @rainbowcrate and when I saw a copy in my favorite used bookstore, I had to snag it. It's different than what I was expecting. The magic is subtle, the friendships are fantastic (Syd and Harley are such a good duo!), queer rep off the charts (both sexual and gender identities), and it's such a good time! There are recipes sprinkled throughout as chapter breaks—some you can actually bake up and some are recipes for a good day, etc.

Highly HIGHLY recommend picking up your favorite baked good and a copy of The Heartbreak Bakery!

[gwen-tolios]

Ishaha is a baker because she's a morning person. She has no problem arriving slightly before dawn to start her work. Ishaha is also a crafter because she has good lungs and a strong throat and can talk for hours. Baking is a craft that takes a lot of time, after all.

Today she rushes through the gathering of her ingredients. Sleep had been hard to come by the previous night, an ache settling into her bones, and today that ache is worse. She scrunches her hands and holds back a cough. If possible, she wants to rush through work and go home.

She measures her spell ingredients - flour and eggs and water and a pinch of sugar. She mixes them together - hands and spoon and a punch for good luck before she sets aside fist-sized balls of dough to grow. Then, she starts feeding fire to the oven.

This is where the magic comes into play. Her ingredients are mixed and prepped, now it's time to build up the energy source. Ishaha lays the groundwork for the spell literally and audibly. Humming softly, warming up her voice, she lays the sticks in the appropriate chamber under the oven.

One on the left, one on the right. One on the left, one on the right. Small stacks, and then she arranges peat in a circle between them. She lights it on fire. The peat catches, and she moves on to the next part of the ritual. Still humming a staccato beat to mirror the upcoming consumption of wood, Ishaha places larger pieces of wood in the chamber. First at the outer edge of her small piles, placed exactly seven beats apart. Once the small stacks alight she slides in three more thick pieces of wood arranged in a fan, joint end away from her. Then, she shuts the door and starts the rite properly.

"Oh gods of heat, warm this oven!" She bows before the oven. "Oh gods of heat, warm this oven!" She bows again, a total of five chants matching the split log pieces.

Then she turns to the awaiting loaves. "Oh gods of heat, merge with my creation." She bows before the bread. "Oh gods of heat, merge with my creation." Again, she does this five times.

And then she repeats the cycle five times, for a total of 50 chants and 50 bows.

It's now time to add in two more pieces of wood. So she does, and then repeats her chats and bows, now in pairs. The gods must approve today because her bread dough is getting fat with their attention, full of divine energy. Ishaha's good at bake craft - the gods always answer her.

She's getting tired though, the ache in her bones and the scratch in her throat are getting annoying, and the most physically demanding part is just beginning. Still, Ishaha powers through.

She smothers a cough in her elbow as she pulls out the rack. Then, she lifts the cloth off her loaves. Ishaha claps, picks up the first loaf, and raises it to the sky. "Thank you for embodying this bake!" No bow this time, instead she twirls to showcase the risen loaf to the gods. Then she places it on the far left corner of the rack.

Her 8th time saying the rite, she finishes with a cough. It should be alright, she'd said the words clearly. Ishaha rushes through the rest, forcing words and not coughs out of her mouth. She stumbles over the 12th one, having to repeat the word 'thank' three times. She dearly hopes that doesn't ruin her crafting.

A sprinkle of water on the oven door shows the temperature is right. With a gloved hand, Ishaha opens the door and gently deposits her full rack of loves on the clay shelf above the fire. A quick glance at the flames shows the gods are hungry, so she feeds it more wood before closing the door and begins the bulk of the rite.

Ishaha bends over, touches her toes, and then slowly trails her hands up her body until her fingers reach for the sky. "Grow!" she chants. "Expand!"

She opens her arms wide, gathering energy, and tosses it at the oven. "Divine heat, gift of the gods, fill this space!"

She bows, walks to the other side of the oven, and repeats. She has to do 30 times on each side, and she manages the first few with no problem. But as Ishaha bends over for a toe touch, coughs rack her body. She jerks up, thumping her chest, trying to get air, and it's only after her body settles does she realizes she's not just interrupted the ritual, but stopped it. She doesn't remember her count. She's stopped chanting. She's lost the god's attention.

She looks toward the oven in horror. All that time, preparing the oven and the bread, lost. Her perfect record of bake craft, always having pleased the gods and gotten warm bread as a result, gone. And all because -

Another cough shutters in her chest and she forces it down. There's been too many disruptions! Maybe she can salvage this if she just doesn't cough. But keeping her mouth closed hurts her chest, and Ishaha's cough bursts out of her.

She cries. Oh, the bread is ruined now. So ruined. She collapses on a seat to cry, sniffing as she watches the sunrise. Some baker she is. Some crafter, speaker of gods.

She blames her distress for missing the smell at first. But it wafts through her small workspace, warm and tasty and yeasty. Ishaha turns toward the oven, it's heat has never gone away, and cautiously she grabs her glove and opens the door.

Her loaves are fat and oval, golden and baked. She pulls them out, cuts into one, and it's airy and soft with a crisp crust. Ishaha pulls a slice to her face and inhales.

She doesn't understand. The rites were broken. Her calls to the gods interrupted. She stares at the open oven, at the ashes of her fire, the heat wavering before the door.

Did she only need to call the gods to heat the oven and into the bread? But no, she'd coughed during the bread display. Minor, but a mar on how she'd wanted to cast her charm.

She holds her bread in hand. It's a beautiful loaf, and a nibble proves it's taste. All her bread looks like that. This is her best bake craft yet.

But it's not bake craft. It's just bake.

Ishaha continues to nibble her freshly baked bread. What if it was the fire? She added it to the oven, just like the wood. Another ingredient she used in the correct manner. What if that's all she needed? A spark?

No gods.

Not for bread.

And maybe, maybe not for other things either.

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Edit: A version of this story is now part of a published collection! Healing Crystals & Other Breakables. Because faith in the gods can be fragile. 💚

“I think,” said the baker to the other shopkeepers, “That I don’t HAVE to recite the Baking Rites during the baking. Or at all. I think… it’s the heat baking things. And it might be similarly true for ALL our professions, like cooking, tailoring, and smithing.”

[bardicblessing]

I’ve been getting back into baking magic recently, and I have to say I’m extremely proud of these Strawberry Lavender hand pies I made! I stirred intention into the filling and drew runes into it with the spoon as it cooked.

Based on this recipe.

I made some changes to what was written. The egg-free crust in the recipe absolutely did not want to cooperate, so I had to start the dough over and used egg this time. I also added 1tsp of dried lavender buds instead of the written 1/2 tsp, and added an extra tbsp of brown sugar. With the size I made them, the recipe made around ten.

Tragically, I did have one casualty that fell when transferring them to the cooling rack. 😭

Let me know if you also try these!

[recetaspanificadoralidl]

✨ Un pastel nacido de la magia de tu panificadora ✨ Imagina: esponjoso, dorado, con el aroma dulce que inunda la cocina… 🍰🌾 ¿Panificadora? Sí. ¿Receta fácil? Absolutamente. ¿Resultado de ensueño? Solo mira.

🌙 Comparte el hechizo de hornear algo inesperado 🧁🔮.

[lavandamichelle]

Baking Up Joy: 10 Festive Christmas Recipes to Sweeten Your Holiday Season

Get ready to turn your kitchen into a winter wonderland as we unwrap 10 delectable Christmas recipes designed to sweeten your holiday season. From classic favorites to new twists on festive flavors, these treats are not only mouthwatering but also easy to make. Let the aroma of joyous baking fill your home and make this holiday season the sweetest one yet! 10 Festive Christmas Recipes to Sweeten…

[sea-me-now]

it’s actually so hard to comprehend that four of the main things that people have been begging for during every nintendo direct for years now (deltarune 3+4 and silksong release dates, new tomodachi life and rhythm heaven) were all announced within one week of each other

what is even happening right now

[butteryplanet]

[scribefindegil]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the magic ratio for ganache (a firm one, such as you would use to make truffles or enrobe a cake) is 1 tablespoon of heavy cream per one ounce of chocolate. Chop the chocolate (or use chips), then boil the cream, immediately pour it over the chocolate, and whisk until smooth. People get so impressed whenever I make ganache but it is literally so easy. When it's freshly made you can dip fruit or cookies in it or use it to fill doughnuts, and if you let it cool and harden somewhat you can roll spoonfuls into balls to make truffles or use it as a filling for sandwich cookies. Also if you're feeling gremlinous you can just eat it with a spoon.

[cassandrasage]

Sour Sorcery: The Role of Lemons in Historical Witchcraft Practices

Check out the role of lemons in historical and modern witchcraft practices. And why not try out my Lemon Cookie for Longevity recipe? #witchcraft #kitchenwitch #lemons

Greetings Ladles and Gentlespoons! If you are in a rush and want to Jump straight to the Recipe for my Lemon Cookies for Longevity, go right ahead! And if you are not a practitioner of magic, don’t worry, this dish will still taste magical! And before we get started, my book on on Southern Hemisphere Kitchen Witchery is now available for pre-order on Amazon and is being released on the 2nd…

[fullcravings]

Cookie Dough Bark

[spkyart]

Hello guys apparently I forgot how to draw

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

A thousand little kisses.

Moonlight Chicken

Cooking Crush

To Be Continued

The Heart Killers

Bake Me Please

Deep Night

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans

Cherry Magic TH

We Are

I Saw You In My Dream

1000 little kisses (Part 3/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes collection, in no particular order.

[justalittlecutiepie]

.𖥔 ݁ ˖⋆ ˚❆˚˖𓍢ִ໋ A very My Little Pony Christmas . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

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