As a budding kitchen witch and with the economy out of control, I have taken on a self-proclaimed mission to lower my family’s grocery bill by making lunch box snacks for my bonus babies. While it is more time consuming, I am already seeing the benefits both financially and magically in creating delicious treats to tuck into their lunch boxes. Plus, it’s the perfect treat for spooky season when you’re having coffee by a bonfire on a crisp cool night. So let’s dive into one of our magically delicious Samhain recipe: S’mores Bites.
What makes food magical?
Everything from the selection of ingredients to the method of production. This particular recipe I’m going to share with you today is not only delicious but, it’s a treat that involves a lot of ingredients for attraction, abundance, prosperity, creativity, and fun. But the ingredients are only half of the equation. When I make these, I am doing so consciously – from the utensils I use to the direction in which I mix them to the shape that I choose to make them.
I highly recommend acquiring kitchen tools that speak to your kitchen witch aesthetic. It wasn’t until I did this that my kitchen felt like a place where magic could really happen. It seems silly but just having my wooden elemental spoons/utensils has inspired me to cook more often and to be more creative in my cooking and kitchen witching.
Magical Properties of the Ingredients in this Samhain Recipe
Graham Crackers:
Whole Wheat Flour is an excellent ingredient for attracting prosperity and abundance into your life. It is of the planet Venus and the element of Earth.
Light Brown Sugar is an ingredient for unconditional, long-term love and healing. It’s an excellent ingredient to add when you want someone to remember that you love them no matter what and that you support them in their healing journey, whatever that may be.
Cinnamon is an excellent ingredient for prosperity, luck, success, healing, and love. It’s also very autumnal and warming so it will give your finished product the feeling of a warm hug when consumed.
Baking Soda helps the dough rise so in a magical sense, baking soda is symbolic of being able to rise to any occasion. It is also used for a wide variety of physical healing remedies.
Salt is a staple in a witch kitchen, or any kitchen for that matter. While it helps to give a little savory flavor, it is also a magical cleansing and purification ingredient. Adding it to your dishes encourages the body to purify itself from the inside out.
Butter helps to create the dough but by itself is an agent of the moon and feminine energy. Adding it to your creations adds a sense of nurturing, smooths over relationships, and helps change and transition to occur more seamlessly. What a great ingredient to add to lunchbox treats when your little ones may be having a hard time at school whether they are just starting school or have changed schools or are just getting involved in a brand-new activity.
Milk is again an ingredient of feminine energy and nurturing. After all, we have entire holy days dedicated to it – Imbolc anyone? This ingredient can help to soothe and calm, nurture, and reassure anyone that they are loved and cared for. You can also use it to invoke Brigid, a triple Goddess of healing, to bestow her blessings upon the finished product.
Honey comes from bees. Bees are well known for their team work ethic as well as their ability to stand up for themselves when required (look out for that stinger!). Honey, the byproduct of a bee’s work, is excellent from drawing what you want in life to you – including friends, money, and events you’re dying to participate in.
Vanilla Extract is a compulsion ingredient so your intent when using it is very important. It can create tighter bonds between yourself and others. However, it’s also a great ingredient to improve mental focus and concentration (this is why I love it for lunch box snacks!).
Marshmallow Cream:
Water is the lifeblood of the earth, the human body, and spirituality. It is feminine in nature and connected to the Moon. It is symbolic of the divine womb. Adding water enhances creativity, fertility, and intuition.
Sugar, white sugar, is a well-known ingredient in sweet jars. That’s because it works like lightening. Adding white sugar brings fast love, communication, and brings back friends or lovers on a better note with whom you’ve previously had arguments. It is a sweetening agent, not only in food but in life.
Corn Syrup (Glucose Syrup) is used in a lot of candied dishes to solidify or harden the final result. In magic, either of these is an excellent ingredient to add when you want to encourage a stronger will, moral compass, or sense of value. It is also a sweetening agent and has attraction properties as well.
Egg Whites are the womb to the yolk that will become the baby chick. Eggs have SO many uses in magic that there is no way I could list them all. However, being that the white is symbolic of the womb, this ingredient again adds a nurturing, feminine energy to the final product. NOTE: Oomancy (egg reading) has been a divinatory practice for centuries. I like to separate my whites from my yolks into a bowl and then look into the whites to see if any images appear that may be messages from the divine as I’m baking. It’s just an extra witchy practice I like to weave into my kitchen witchery.
Cream of Tartar is actually a residue that is left in wine barrels after fermentation. However, it is used in baking with egg whites to increase their volume and to ensure other products don’t deflate, like whipped cream. This ingredient is great to pump someone up. It enhances their sense of self and their sense of self-worth.
Vanilla Extract we already covered this one, see above!
Outer Coating
Milk Chocolate Melts is again another ingredient tied to the feminine and nurturing qualities of magic. It is also of the elements of water and earth. This adds love, nurturing, balance, fun, and raises emotional energy to the final product it’s added to.
In addition to being one of our favorite Samhain recipes, these lunchbox treats are woven with lots of intentions aimed at school aged kids to facilitate positive friendships, communication skills, mental focus, nurturing, love, smooth transitions, and to help guide them in a positive direction when their parents or caregivers can’t be present. It’s definitely part of the reason I chose to make them for my bonus babies in addition to their deliciousness.
I can’t take credit for the creation of the recipes as I did find them on the internet, but I also created the s’mores bites by combining these recipes. The original recipes will be referenced below to give credit where credit is due.
Now, onto the Samhain S’mores Bites Recipe
You’ll have to make this recipe in three parts, beginning with the homemade graham crackers then the marshmallow cream, and ending with the outer chocolate coating. Please save/print each part of this 3-part Samhain recipe.
1. First, make the homemade graham crackers:
Graham Crackers
Equipment
- 2 large cookie sheets
- baking/parchment paper
- large mixing bowl
- small mixing bowl
- whisk
- rubber spatula
- rolling pin
- plastic wrap
- pizza cutter or cookie cutters
- fork
- cooling rack
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 7 tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1/3 cup honey
- 2 tsp vanilla
- flour for rolling pin and surface
Instructions
- Line cookie sheets with baking/parchment paper and preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)
- In large mixing bowl, mix wheat flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. Choose a spoon that has been imbued with an element aligned with your intentions if you have one. Mix in a clockwise motion to infuse your intention into the dough.
- Add butter to dry ingredients. Use your hands to mix until the dough looks like course breadcrumbs.
- In small mixing bowl, whisk together milk, honey, and vanilla in a clockwise motion keeping your intention in mind.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients in the large bowl. Use rubber spatula to ensure all the wet mixture goes into the dry mixture. Mix with spoon until dough forms. The dough will be sticky and soft.
- Wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for at least an hour (I like to leave mine overnight) because the longer it chills, the easier it will be to roll later. During this step, you can choose to carve a rune or personal symbol onto the dough that reinforces your intentions.
- Sprinkle flour generously onto the counter and rolling pin. Roll out the dough until it’s a quarter inch thick. You will have to continually sprinkle flour throughout this process so that your dough doesn’t stick to anything.
- You can use the pizza cutter to cut the dough into rectangles or you can use cookie cutters to cut the dough into whatever shape aligns with your intention. I personally used rectangles to give a solid foundation to my intentions, but you can choose anything you want.
- After placing the cut outs onto your cookie sheets, poke holes in the with your fork and, if they are large shapes, score the dough with a knife for easier breaking after they have cooked.
- Bake cookies in oven for 10-12 minutes. The longer you leave them in, the crisper they’ll be.
- Once they’re cool enough to touch, tear apart if needed and place on cooling rack.
2. Then, make your marshmallow cream:
Marshmallow Cream
Equipment
- small saucepan
- candy thermometer
- whisk
- rubber spatula
- large glass or metal bowl or stand mixing bowl
- stand mixer or hand mixer
- jar pint
Ingredients
- ¼ cup water
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup corn syrup or glucose syrup
- 2 egg whites
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Separate 2 egg whites into your large glass or metal mixing bowl and add cream of tartar.
- In small saucepan, heat water, white sugar, and corn syrup or glucose syrup over medium-to-medium high heat until the candy thermometer reads 240°F while whisking occasionally. Ensure you are whisking clockwise to infuse your intention into the mixture.
- While the white sugar mixture is heating, beat egg whites and cream of tartar mixture. You can do this with a stand mixer or hand mixer. I prefer hand so that I can control the rotation (there’s that clockwise motion again 😉). Do this for about 2 minutes on medium-high until soft peaks form.
- Check sugar mixture and if the temperature has reached 240, pull from heat.
- Turn your mixer on low and slowly add hot sugar to the egg whites.
- Once all of the sugar mixture has been added, turn the mixer to medium-high and whip for 7-9 minutes until stiff peaks form. If you are using a hand mixer, you will know it’s almost done when the mixture begins to cake around the beaters even at high speeds. This is a great step in which to concentrate on your intention for the final product.
- Stir in vanilla extract during the last minute or two of whipping. The mixture will be thick, sticky, and shiny white.
3. Almost done…let’s make the Outer Chocolate Coating
S’mores Chocolate Coating
Equipment
- medium glass bowl
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup milk chocolate melts
Instructions
- Placechocolate melts in glass bowl. Microwave on high in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until full melted.
4. Putting the S’mores Samhain recipe all together
Grab a butter knife and slather marshmallow cream in the center of a graham cracker or all over, whichever you prefer. Place another cracker over top to make a sandwich. Then you are going to dip it into the bowl of melted chocolate so that the chocolate covers half of the cookie. WA-LA! You’ve made a S’mores Bite. You can place the S’more onto your cookie sheet with baking paper to cool. Once you have a full tray of s’mores bites, place them in the fridge for 20 minutes for the chocolate to full harden.
For storage, I like to individually wrap the cookies and place them in a container that will be stored in the fridge until I’m ready to pop them into the kid’s lunch boxes. I used parchment paper to wrap them, but you can use beeswax wraps or any other method you’d like to keep them fresh. You can also use this opportunity to write a little note on the wrapping or even draw a protective sigil. Also, you’ll want to place the remaining marshmallow cream into your pint jar. It will keep fresh for 2-3 weeks. I used a recycled peanut butter jar I had laying around, but you can use canning jars or whatever you have on hand. The thing to remember here is that it should be airtight.
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Meet Resident Writer: Allorah Rayne
Allorah Rayne is a practitioner of witchcraft and has been part of the online spiritual community since 2012. She is a Virgo sun, Pisces moon, and Leo rising. Her introduction to tarot was at the age of nine and she pursued more intensive learning at fifteen. Allorah is the founder of The Wayfaring Witch © where she offers soul origin profiles, tarot and oracle card readings, and individualized mentorships in the ways of the witch. She is also the co-founder alongside Kitty of Burning Hallows Productions which produces The Otherworldly Oracle Official Podcast and Mimir’s Well podcast. You can contact Allorah at the following social media sites Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, on The Wayfaring Witch © website via live chat, or by e-mail at allorahrayne@gmail.com. Read Allorah’s last article for the Witches Cabinet on the magic of Bay Leaves.
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