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Ostara Recipe: Lavender Pistachio Shortbread

Ostara Recipe: Lavender Pistachio Shortbread

Last updated on: March 19, 2024 at 12:18 pm by Lilith Dorsey

Ostara Recipe: Lavender Pistachio Shortbread 2024-03-19T10:23:56-05:00 Lilith Dorsey

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Spring has sprung, and Ostara the celebration of the spring equinox is upon us. Maybe you have just seen the first crocus poking it’s petals out through the snow, or if you’re here in the south like me you have a yard full of glorious irises showing their tiny beards in the sun.

My favorite thing to do for any sabat or sacred holiday is cook. If you follow this blog you can find many recipes for many different occasions. This recipe makes beautiful pale green cookies highlighted with a lavender drizzle. Magickally lavender is said to grant luck, success, and blessings, while pistachio is said to grant happiness and good fortune.

Lavender Pistachio Shortbread Recipe

Ingredients:

1 stick butter, softened

1/2 package instant pudding mix, pistachio flavor

2 Tablespoons granulated white sugar

1 cup all purpose flour

1/4 tsp. salt

1/3 cup pistachios, finely chopped

3 Tablespoons milk

1/4 cup confectioners sugar

3 Tablespoons ground lavender flowers

Instructions:

Place butter in a large bowl, and leave out at room temperature until completely softened. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Slowly add pudding mix, sugar, flour, and salt to the butter. Mixing well after each addition. Then drizzle in 1 tablespoon of milk until mixture comes together. Grease 9 in cake pan, and press mixture into the pan. Prick mixture all over with a fork. Next sprinkle pistachios over shortbread pressing well into the dough. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the mixture begins to turn golden brown at the edges.

Remove from oven and turn out onto a plate. While still warm cut the mixture like a pie into 8 segments. Cool completely. While the shortbread is cooling take a small bowl and mix together lavender and confectioners sugar. Slowly add the remaining milk until it begins to get to a drizzle consistency. When the shortbread is completely cooled, drizzle the lavender mixture over it. Enjoy!

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About Lilith Dorsey

Lilith Dorsey M.A., hails from many magickal traditions, including Afro-Caribbean, Celtic, and Indigenous American spirituality. Their traditional education focused on Plant Science, Anthropology, and Film at the University of R.I, New York University, and the University of London, and their magickal training includes numerous initiations in Santeria also known as Lucumi, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo. Lilith Dorsey is also a Voodoo Priestess and in that capacity has been doing successful magick since 1991 for patrons, is editor/publisher of Oshun-African Magickal Quarterly, filmmaker of the experimental documentary Bodies of Water :Voodoo Identity and Tranceformation,’ and choreographer/performer for jazz legend Dr. John’s “Night Tripper” Voodoo Show. They have long been committed to providing accurate and respectful information about the African Traditional Religions and are proud to be a published Black author of such titles as Voodoo and African Traditional Religion, 55 Ways to Connect to Goddess, The African-American Ritual Cookbook, Love Magic, the bestselling Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens and the award winning Water Magic. Keep a lookout for the soon to be released Tarot Every Witch Way now available for preorders online where books are sold. You can read more about the author here.

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