these citrus faerie cakes are perfect for litha! can be used year round as offerings to the fae and deities associated with the sun. 🌼✨🌻
• 20 min total • vegan friendly • serves 12 •
🦋 ingredients
– 1 ¾ cups flour
– ¾ cups sugar
– 1 tsp baking soda
– ½ teasooon salt
– ½ cup milk (can be plant based!)
– ½ cup orange juice
– ¼ cup honey (can sub with agave syrup!)
– 2 tsp vanilla extract
– a little less than 1/3 cup of olive oil
– 1 tbsp white or apple cider vinegar
– ¼ cup lemon & orange zest (optional)
🦋 steps
1. preheat oven to 375 F and grease two cupcake pans.
2. combine all of the dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl first.
3. next, pour the liquids into the bowl and mix until all of the ingredients are combined. be careful not to overmix!
4. mix in the zest last if you’re using it!
5. pour them into the pan and pop those babies in the oven for 8-10 mins. time may very from oven to oven so keep an eye on them!
6. when you take them out, they should look vv golden! the honey and orange makes them have a pretty ‘sunny’ look! they should rise like a cupcake but have a bit of a denser texture.
7. you’re done babe! eat them or leave them as an offering. ✨
fun fact: when eaten, these cakes may also bring prosperity! orange, honey, and olive are symbolic of luck, abundance, and wealth!
This is a very simple protection salt I use to ring around my rituals, cleanse my spaces, and even sweep the floor with.
It’s good because not only does it protect, but gives a nice bite back to any negativity/entity/thing that tries to cross it. Best for ritual work and simple spirit work, not necessarily protection from physical attackers.
It’s something pretty much every single one of my readers can make at home with its ridiculously simple ingredients and process, but it’s not something that everyone would think of off the top of their head.
Ready? Here we go. Try not to sneeze!
You’ll need:
1 part sea salt (coarse is best: see picture below)
1 part black peppercorns
1 part chili powder
a large bowl
mortar and pestle
bottles (size varies on how much you want to make)
funnel (optional, but not worth leaving out)
Step 1:
Place the coarse salt and black peppercorns in the mortar and pestle. Grind them together. Yes, technically this could also be done with ground pepper, but I find the actual effort put into grinding them makes the powder more effective.
This’ll take a long time — you’ll want it to turn to a fine, light brown powder.
Step 2:
Yes, you guessed it: place the sea salt and chili powder in the mortar and pestle and grind together. Remember how I said this was easy?
This should turn to a light orange, almost pink when finished (my pictures really don’t do it justice).
Step 3:
Add the two together. You can see the peppercorn mix on the left and the chili pepper mix on the right.
Step 4:
Ready? Time to get this thing in a bottle. This is where that funnel I mentioned earlier can really come in handy.
And there we have it! Put a nice little label on it, put the date you made it on the back, and now you have your own all-purpose protection powder.
**Recipe and photos property of TheLivingWiccan. Do not remove source.**
This is a powder designed to quickly banish a spirit, while neutralizing any of their attempts to harm you. It is not designed to play nice, so keep that in mind when deciding when to use it. Hopefully you will never need it. (Though if you DO use it, I’d love to hear about your results since by nature it’s something I kind of avoid thoroughly testing!)
Ingredients: I mix them intuitively, so the amounts are whatever feels right. Generally this takes more salt, though.
Salt (Protection, banishing)
Pepper (Banishing, protection)
Chili Powder (Banishing)
Grey Salt (I make this the same way as most black salt recipes, with the ashes of incense. Grey is neutralizing.)
Cayenne Pepper (Banishing, adds strength and speed)
Ginger (Banishing, adds strength and speed)
Put it in a bottle or container and give it a good SHAKE!!
Blend ingredients and steep. As the tea steeps, recite the following.
“Dreaming tea of quite night
Take my spirit to psychic flight
Show the realms and worlds to me
As my body lets my spirit roam free
When I am done, lay me to sleep
As my spirits journey is complete.”
PLEASE NOTE: You should not consume mugwort is you are pregnant or nursing.
Okay, whatever’s hanging around that keeps flitting through my right eye’s peripheral vision….
Knock that shit off.
I’m going out to buy cinnamon and cayenne pepper and when I get home, your ass is SO getting booted.
Ain’t got time for your ghostie nonsense today. Nope.
Cayenne pepper, huh? I’ll have to try that mix because my salt and sage isn’t working on whatever keeps scratching at my back door while I try to sleep.
Oh honey….here, have a thing.
2 parts Cayenne Pepper 1 part Cinnamon 1 part Black Salt (equal parts salt and powdered charcoal) ½ part Black Pepper ½ part Powdered Eggshell
Shake it up, sprinkle it where you don’t want things coming in, pitch it in the corners to weed things out, toss a little on your doorsteps to keep the nasties from coming back.
Bree’s Banishing Powder. There are those who swear by it, including me.
Are you a witch who has just experienced something infuriating, or perhaps being aggro as fuck is just your state of being?
MAKE FUCKING BREAD.
IT’S CHEAP, EASY, AND ENDS IN YOU HAVING FOOD IN YOUR FACE, WHICH WILL CURE YOU OF YOUR AGGRO IF IT IS CAUSED BY BEING HANGRY. IT’S BASICALLY THE BEST WAY TO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF SOMETHING LEGALLY.
HOLY COW I LOVE KNEADING.
STICK HERBS IN YOUR BREAD FOR CALMING.
DRAW A SIGIL ON IT WHILE IT PROVES TO TRANSFER YOUR ANGER AWAY FROM YOU.
HOLY SHIT I LOVE MAKING BREAD.
Can we get some basic bread recipes for the witch who has never made bread before?
YOU FUCKING BET WE CAN.
I TOTALLY SUCK AT BAKING, BUT EVEN MY CONFUSED ASS WAS ABLE TO EXECUTE THIS EASY BREAD RECIPE LIKE A BOOOSSSSSS.
may the bridges I burn light the way 