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This blog is an exploration of daily magic, featuring wild plants, creative recipes, meaningful ceremonies, and writings about our shared humanity. 

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Welcome to the Wondersmith's Writings! Here you can find magical recipes featuring foraged ingredients, musings on food and ceremony, and meaningful rituals to explore your own everyday magic. Though I have been focused on other writing pursuits, I am keeping all of my blog content up as a resource for you. You can use the search bar below to find what you are looking for. (Please note that sometimes you need to refresh the page to see the search results.) Happy reading! If you'd like to support my goal to spread magic far and wide, consider contributing to my patreon program!

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Posts tagged cake
Wild Seed and Maple Cream Fertility Cakes

These hearty, seed-filled cakes drizzled with maple cream are a beautiful reminder of potential. What do you want to give birth to? An idea? A project? A child? Accompanied by a fertility ritual, these cakes are a symbol of spring’s abundance to come, metaphorically or literally!

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Cake Dreams, Connection, And Curly Dock Magic

This hearty winter cake is baked with toasted curly dock seed flour, mulled wine poached pears, mascarpone cream, and candied walnuts. It’s also a reminder of why connection is so important this time of year!

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Secret Recipe: CandyCap Ganache Cake (Gather The Fuel)

This stunning cake is a delight of flavors and textures. It has a rich, strong maple flavor with a slight kick of alcohol swirled through a silky ganache, layered between tender gluten-free crepe-like cakes. It’s all the woodsy, earthy, warmth you’d want from a log cake, without tasting even a little bit like firewood.

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Beeswax-Infused Parsnip Candle Cakes: A Time For Illumination

These realistic wax-dripped candles are actually delicious parsnip cakes infused with the intoxicating aroma of beeswax! They’re the perfect way to mark the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, or just any other day you could use a little illumination in your life.

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Lavender Earl Grey Chocolate Cake: Eat The Pretty Things!

This deliciously moist and rich chocolate cake gets its unmistakably delicious flavor from urban foraged lavender and earl grey tea. Bake it up because YOU definitely deserve something “too pretty to eat.”

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Pantry Pearls: Wild Violet Surprise Cake

This beautiful and delicious cake with huckleberry jam and wild violet fillings has a couple of secrets folded into that batter… have a read to find out the secret ingredient in your pantry that will bring it to life!

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Candied Elderflowers and Fairy Cakes: Don't Forget Your Offerings

These delicate cakes are super light and filled with the floral scent of cattail pollen, punctuated by tart wild currants. A drizzle of lemon icing and a sprinkle of candied elderflowers make them a treat worthy of the Fae. Just make sure you approach your foraging mission with respect!

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