Yule

How to Make Vegan Hot Chocolate Bombs!

These awesome vegan hot chocolate bombs are fun and easy to make and so delicious! They are a wonderful craft activity to do for the holidays and make great gifts too! You’ll need to get silicone molds with wells that are 2.5 inches in diameter to make the bombs. There are a lot of options …

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Cranberry Orange Scones (Gluten Free & Vegan!)

These cranberry orange scones are incredibly delicious! The cranberries are tart and bursting with flavor, and the walnuts and orange zest complement the cranberries perfectly. The pastry is crunchy and flaky on the outside and tender in the middle, just the way a scone should be! They would be worth making even if this were …

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Five Elements Pentagram Craft for Yule!

This pentagram craft is quite simple, but very meaningful and fun to make. Each point of the pentagram has a symbol to represent one of the five elements. I like to keep the order as spirit at the very top, air on the top right, fire on the bottom right, water on the bottom left, …

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The Best Vegan (& Gluten Free) Turkey or Chick’n!

There aren’t a lot of vegan meats available at the grocery store that are gluten free, and most of the recipes online call for vital wheat gluten. This is very frustrating when you are vegan and have celiac disease! Gluten free or not, however, everyone will love this vegan turkey/chick’n recipe and it’s good enough …

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How to Shape Sun Bread

My mom and I made this sun bread for Litha (the Summer Solstice), but it would also be a great design for Lughnasadh/Lammas coming up soon or for Yule (the Winter Solstice.) It’s also a fun bread to make whenever you want to bring some sun energy into your life! Start by making your dough, …

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Mushroom Wellington

This Wellington looks really fancy, but it is actually quite simple to make! (There are a number of steps to prepare the vegetables, but they are all very easy to do.) This is one of my favorite recipes, and it is truly wonderful with mashed potatoes and “beef” gravy! Here are the ingredients you will …

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Celebrating Yule 2017

We began preparing for Yule at the end of November, and made lots of crafts and great food! I have been blogging about everything as we went along and you can see all that we did and ate in the following posts: Preparing for Our Yule Countdown (Making a Yule Log) Our nightly candle lighting …

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Yule Eve 2017

My mom and I had a wonderful Yule Eve celebration! It was rich with meaning and ritual, and good food as well! We started preparing three weeks in advance with our Yule countdown, and we continued the spiraling into the center theme on Yule Eve. A friend had to cut down a fir tree and …

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Holiday Wassail

This wassail is a jazzed up version of my spiced cider, and it is perfect for any fall or winter holiday! You can leave out the alcohol if you prefer, but it really does add a nice kick. Here are the ingredients you will need: You will also need two cinnamon sticks, vegan honee, and …

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