Made this because of yet another Tumblr fiasco! Im a queer witch trying to find a new home that offers the same quirkyness as tumblr. But without the problems :)
Earl Grey Shortbread – cookies for prosperity and peace
Here’s a pretty simple recipe for cookies that I make a few times a month for my salon.
1 cup butter (room temp)*
2 loose leaf earl grey tea bags
1 cup confectioners sugar
Cream ingredients together until “fluffy”
*(if using unsalted butter, add ½ tsp salt. Salted butter: no salt)
Add in 2 cups flour little by little until dough forms and fully mixed.
It may be a bit crumbly, but take the dough and press it together, but try not to overwork it.
Split into 2-3 balls and roll into tube shape in a piece of wax or parchment paper and refrigerate for about an hour until firm.
Take out a roll and slice into ½" rounds and put on prepared baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees (Fahrenheit) for about 10 minutes.
When you see a thin golden brown ring around the cookies where they sit on the sheet they’re ready.
To frost, I use confectioners sugar (start out with about ½ cup and add more as needed) and add a little Creme de Violette (Violet liqueur made by Rothman & Winter) and mix until smooth. Should be toothpaste consistency and spread on the cookies.
To clarify, the black tea helps with prosperity, and the bergamot herb has use for drawing out peaceful dispositions. Violets draw out love and happiness. Sugar for sweetening positions and thought processes, and wheat for multiplying and fortifying the other components.
So these cookies are simple to make, delicate in flavor, and make you feel fancy af.
I love autumn for a lot of reasons.
I love the food. I love the fashion. I love the weather.
But I mostly just love the vibe of magic that hangs in the air. Whether it’s the golden leaves against the crisp blue morning sky, or the sudden strange wind under a full moon, it’s there. The magic is there.
Sooo my friend is going to rip me off this summer by only paying me basically $2 an hour to babysit her 10-year-old sister ($20 bucks a day, for anywhere from 10-12 hours). I agreed to this before I knew what I was getting into (bc I trusted someone who was a close friend, who was a babysitter herself, to pay me fairly, whoops i guess). My mom got pissed immediately bc well, her daughter is geting ripped off. And when I confronted my friend about it she gave me several excuses as to why I basically just have to deal with it (‘my mom is broke and can’t pay you so only I’m paying’ ‘Since I’m paying you and I’m only making $300 a week, you’ll be getting $100 of that bc I don’t wanna give you more bc then I won’t be making bank even if I’m paying you fairly’ ’it barely takes effort to watch my sister so I’m pretty much paying you for nothing’) yeahi bolded that last statement bc that is her main argument. She thinks it takes zero effort to take care of another human being for 12 hours five days a week so I don’t deserve more? I guess?
Anyway, the reason I haven’t backed out already is bc I have shitty friends and not enough self esteem to get rid of them, so she will definitely immediately talk shit about me to all of her friends (who are also my friends) until they are all on her side and hate me. This isn’t even a worse case scenario anxiety induced fear. This shit has happened before (I really should learn, huh).
And of course if I do it, I’ll be miserable as fuck wasting the summer my mom told me I didn’t have to get a job for (I usually intern at her job, which didn’t pay me at all, so babysitting is a step up, right? Right?) since it’ll be my last summer before I gotta do college things.
My solution: witchcraft.
If that doesn’t work: I don’t know what the fuck to do. I already decided that I will never speak to these people again, once I’ve left highschool and will no longer be forced to see them. Maybe I’ll just deal with that earlier. Fuck
Hmm so I’ve done some magic, who’s results I should be seeing within a week. If it backfires or works out differently than how I planned it (I planned how I worded this very meticulously though, so I hope not) then I suppose I will just destroy a friendship I didn’t very much like anyway. Gotta see the bright side, right?
Solution time: my wonderful mother told me to just use her as an excuse for why I’m no longer allowed to babysit for cheap as shit pay. Thanks mom!
Candlelight-magick 