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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 dessert
Oregon Grape and Chocolate Mousse: Early Fall is Purple

A silky chocolate mousse is the perfect balance to a vibrant and tart Oregon grape berry mousse. Eaten together, they are absolutely divine. Plant based, and also really easy!

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Bear Paw Huckleberry Brownies: Reverence and Respect

These fudgy brownies are the perfect counterpart to flavorful, tart mountain huckleberries. Sculpted into edible bear paws, they also make a fun presentation. And just wait until you hear my bear story…

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Full Happiness Treasure Pudding

This beautiful dessert is full of refreshing flavors: lots of fresh and dried fruit, creamy rice pudding infused with a special ingredient, and a strawberry and pineapple filling to bring some brightness and cheer to late winter days!

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Wild Mint Malachite Cheesecake (Emerald Plant Magic)

This plant-based dessert is as beautiful as it is delicious! Creamy vanilla swirls with bright wild mint, all wrapped up in a chocolate cookie crust. Let this be the doorway to a deeper exploration of emerald magic.

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Terrarium Trifle and The Importance of Foundation

This trifle is delicious, beautiful, and filled with late summer produce! It also carries with it an important message of how important foundations are in forging ahead with creative projects. When is the last time you got business advice from a dessert? Maybe it’s time to start now. ;)

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Seafoam as Portal (With Mermaid Chia Pudding)

This beautiful layered dessert is reminiscent of deep blue oceans and floating seafoam. It’s colored naturally and would make a fun dish for either a dessert or breakfast. The chia pudding is flavored with a floral syrup to make it extra celebratory

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Waning Moon Dessert and a Ritual for Clearing Space

Celebrate the lessons the waning crescent moon offers of clearing space in your life with this easy ritual designed to share with friends and a recipe for chicory and black cocoa night sky sorbet served with black walnut crescent moon cookies

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