In this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday feature, we’re making delightfully colorful homemade pastels using natural earth pigments!
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Encourage your heart to open and soften with these herbal marshmallows, sweetened with maple syrup and honey and filled with the goodness of damiana, shatavari, and wild rose
Read MoreThis lovely platter is a celebration of the bright colors and crunchy textures of spring veggies! It is paired with three easy plant-based dips and adorned with edible flowers for a celebration-ready presentation.
Read MoreIn this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday feature, we’re making stunning mermaid crowns embellished with seashells and dripping with gems!
Read MoreThese tasty appetizers are full of the light freshness of springtime and flavored with one of my favorite spring flowers: the gingery magnolia!
Read MoreIn this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday feature, we’re making Kokedama, beautiful hanging moss balls with plants! Dive in to read about cultivating landscape intimacy and get a preview of this gorgeous nature craft
Read MoreThis week’s Wondercrew Wednesday features a Secret Recipe for lovely pink crepes filled with sweet ricotta and topped with huckleberry sauce and dianthus whipped cream for a delightfully indulgent breakfast treat!
Read MoreIn this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday feature, we’re making Seed Bomb Bon Buns, a gorgeous way to celebrate Earth Week and turn our attention to intentionally creating something special in honor of the Earth.
Read MoreThis post is a candid conversation about how my ways of creating magic have shifted due to worsening health. But don’t worry, the magic continues! Come along with me and find out how :)
Read MoreHappy Wondercrew Wednesday! Today I am sharing a recipe that is very dear to my soul: it's what I used to make for myself every time I went to visit my beloved Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreThis deliciously moist, naturally-sweetened carrot cake is an introduction to the Umbel family where you’ll find the sweet, the sneaky, and the deadly. Approach with caution!
Read MoreGold-flecked eggshells can be peeled back to reveal beautiful indigo-colored cakes full of the flavors of blueberries and wild violets!
Read MoreThese delicious potstickers owe their juicy/crunchy texture to Wood Ear mushrooms - named for their uncanny resemblance to mythical ears!
Read MoreIn this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday feature, we’re making real silver salt spoons using a special kind of clay and a kitchen torch!
Read MoreThese decorative cookies are delicately flavored with homemade wild fennel extract and are a fun modern version of a forgotten classic.
Read MoreThis gorgeous, gold-flecked jelly has the delicate flavor of some of spring’s earliest bloomers: forsythia blossoms!
Read MoreThese soothing botanical bath bombs are as beautiful as they are effective! Packed full of plant-based goodness and natural colors, they make a wonderful gift or moment of self-care.
Read MoreThese hearty rolls from my culinary genealogy are filled with the treasures of the landscape I call home: nourishing winter greens, flavorful dried berries, and more!
Read MoreThis stunning appetizer is the perfect ode to late winter’s magic: a complex mole sauce is topped by flaky pastry bulbs filled with sweet chestnuts and roasted garlic.
Read MoreThese tangy and spiced cupcakes are a gorgeous bright purple, with a rum-spiked buttercream. Candied hibiscus flowers and a filling of pie cherries are the perfect surprise elements to make them extra special!
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Join me for a little winter night magic as we bake this cake full of rich seasonal flavors and black cocoa!