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 made this today, and its amazing! It smells fantastic, and it leaves my skin feeling so soft. So here’s what I did, so that you can do it too! Most witches will already have these ingredients on hand, and if you don’t, they’re all readily available at any grocery store:
Pure cane sugar
Coconut oil
Lavender buds
Lavender essential oil
So this is really simple and its not an exact science, which means you can customize it to whatever consistence or potency you want! Anyways…
Combine the sugar and the coconut oil (a little coconut oil goes a long way; even if the mixture seems too thick and hard, just moosh it around with a fork for a while and it’ll loosen up). Toss in some lavender buds and a few drops of essential oil, and TA-DA! You have yourself a sugar scrub! Its gentle on your skin, and it has the added bonus of lavender’s calming powers.
Now, the shelf life of these scrubs varies dramatically depending on the container, the temperature of where your keeping it, whether or not it gets wet, etc. But as a rule of thumb, I wouldn’t use it past 2 months, or once there is visible discoloration (because this might be mold). Small batches are probably the best idea!
“What? Jes? What use can witches have for stickers?” Grimoire decorations, INTENTION CANDLES, sigils! This is a craft floating around Pinterest for putting pictures on a candle jar. Make stickers of your deity. Make stickers for yourself. Cover a jar in a collage of stickers that represent you. Or a friend. Or an enemy. Or a concept (money, peace, cleansing). Stick a candle in your jar and you’re golden.
So anyway. You will need:
🔮 scissors 🔮 clear packing tape 🔮 a bowl and some water 🔮 a magazine, newspaper, or printed page 🔮 (optional: a coffee filter, wax paper)
Find an image or word you want to use. Magazines work really well for this. Newspapers are good too. Theoretically you can use pictures you print, but laser printers work while inkjet printers don’t? I don’t know, I haven’t tried printing stuff. If you have an inkjet printer, go ahead and try it, it can’t hurt.
Cut the image out exactly as you want the sticker to look. Don’t try to trim it after you out the packing tape on. Trust me, I made that mistake.
Stick packing tape over your images. (You’ll want a non stick surface for this. I’m using a plastic tray here. Laptops work well too. I mean what.) Rub the image really well so the tape sticks to it completely. Use your fingertips, not your nails or anything hard. You can scratch the tape and then it looks icky. Again, trust me.
The ink from the image will stick to the tape, but it will cover up the adhesive. When you cut out your sticker, you’re going to want to leave a small border around it so you’ll still have some sticky left. This is why you don’t trim the image after you stick the tape on it. Otherwise you’ll get a pretty picture on clear tape with no stickiness.
Dunk your packing tape and image in some water. In this pic, I cut out the image BEFORE dunking in the water, but it’s actually easier to trim away the excess tape while it’s wet. The water prevents the tape from sticking to your scissors, so you can trim more easily. Also this is where you might want the coffee filter because…
… you’re going to rub the paper off the packing tape. If you’re lucky like I was here, the paper will peel off in one nice piece. Other times you have to rub until the paper kinda shreds off. This is where the coffee filter comes in handy for cleanup later, cause you can just lift out the filter with the paper bits and throw it away and not worry about washing it down your sink and clogging your drains.
Beware in this step though. It is possible to rub the ink right off the tape, so be gentle with it.
Once it dries, the clear parts of the packing tape will still be sticky, so you can stick it on your jars or books or laptop or whatever.
If you’re not going to use them right away, you can keep them on wax paper or freezer paper to save for later.
And that’s it!! Stickers!
Notes: dark colors are less transparent than light ones. Keep that in mind for your candles. Also, don’t experiment with the best images you really like, start with a crappy one to see how your printout/magazine/paper will take to sticker making.
Tag me if you post pics of stickers you made and how you use them! I’d love to see!
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