#soul cakes | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

angeltreasure · 7 months

Text

To read the full from Fr. Ambrose visit here.

#Halloween #All Hallows Eve #October #Catholic #Catholicism #traditions #feast days #skeletons #death #cemetery #graveyard #candy #trick or treat #soul cakes #prayer #saints #masks #costumes

68 notes · View notes

daphyswitchylibrary · 2 years

Text

Blessed Samhain!

Samhain happens on the 31st of October and marks the last harvest (which means the 3rd). It also celebrates the end of this year before we go into winter.

Samhain is considered as the end of the year for some witches. In fact, Samhain is the last sabbat on the wheel of the year!

Halloween's spookiness is not a random feeling: it is said that on the 31st, the veil between our world and the other is at its thinnest. That means that contacting spirits and passed loved ones will be easier! If you're sensitive to paranormal activity, you might get more ghostly visitors. And since we are more in touch with the other world, divination tools might give more/clearer answers.

How to celebrate Samhain?

Orange, black, red and purple are really great colors for Samhain! Wear them, paint them on your nails, whatever you want to do!

Crystals for Samhain could be smoky quartz, obsidian, carnelian, bloodstone, onyx and amethyst. Of course, if you don't have any of them, don't panic! You can also wear/use crystals that have something to do with Samhain's colors, or just go with your guts! If you feel like wearing a crystal that has nothing to do with Samhain, go for it!

For food, think in-season veggies like squash, or soups. Apples and soul cakes are a great idea, but most importantly… PUMPKINS! Pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffin, pumpkin seeds, anything with pumpkin is a great idea!

I personnally made amazing pumpkin muffins that I bake every year with my mom, but also baked delicious pumpkin seeds and amazing soul cakes. I took this recipe from @halloween-pumpkin-queen and added wiccantips' and wiccancuisine's honey and butter mix on top of the cakes!

Activities

You can keep the pumpkin you used for recipes to carve it: it's a great activity for Samhain! Any divination tool is also great! Get in touch with the other side (in safe ways!) and take some time to yourself to focus on more spiritual things instead of work, school, and other things that might suck out all our energy. Putting yourself in the spooky mood, like watching Halloween movies, or going for a cozier view of it, with wine or cider and a nice blanket after going to take a walk outside.

Appreciate the autumn colors! They'll be gone soon

Think about all your loved ones who passed away (or ancestors you never met but respect). This is, afterall, the time of year when the veil between worlds is the thinnest.

Anyway, Blessed Samhain everyone! Stay safe and enjoy the end of this spooky, but beautiful month

Sources: thewitchoftheforest, wiccantips, witchytips and wiccancuisine on Instagram. halloween-pumpkin-queen on Tumblr.

112 notes · View notes

virgo-moonlight · 7 months

Text

made some soul cakes for Samhain tomorrow :)

cranberry apple with orange zest, and vegan! (ignore the funky looking one…)

I’ll be offering some to ancestors tomorrow evening during my ritual.

#witchblr #witchcraft #kitchen witch #samhain #soul cakes

17 notes · View notes

maypoleman1 · 6 months

Text

2nd November

All Souls’ Day/ Souling Day

The Halton Souling Play. Source: earlofstamford.org.uk

Today is All Souls’ Day, or Souling Day. Keeping with barely concealed Samhain roots, this feast day was traditionally when prayers were offered to the more venal deceased who were confined to Purgatory according to Roman Catholic tradition, a halfway house for those not virtuous enough to enter Heaven after death or wicked enough to thrown immediately into Hell - probably a rather crowded place. The holy day was marked by the baking of soul cakes ready to give out to alms-seeking souling-song singers. Originally the cakes were to pay the singers to pray for the family dead because it was believed that the more prayers said for a loved one in Purgatory, the higher the likelihood of their progress to Paradise. The Reformation abandoned belief in Purgatory, but unsurprisingly the souling-song singers continued to fetch up every 1st and 2nd November, seeking cake and ale, but this time without the obligation of saying any prayers, particularly in the north west of England.

In addition, Soul Plays were performed, autumn versions of the mummers’ plays, and they have been revived in Antrobus in Cheshire. The play’s main character is Dick Tatton, the Wild Horse of Antrobus, a three-legged animal: two of his legs are human and the third is a pole surmounted by a real horse’s skull. The play is at least 400 years old, but the fact Dick is described as a ‘dead horse’ likely links it to the darker horse cult rituals of pagan times. The play revival has expanded to other Cheshire towns and villages such as Cumberbach, Warburton and Halton.

#all souls day #souling day #purgatory #soul cakes #souling songs #soul plays #wild horse of antrobus #pagan origins

7 notes · View notes

bonfires-n-hares · 2 years

Text

A soul, a soul, a soul cake. Please good missus a soul cake. An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry Any good thing to make us merry. One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who make us all. — English folk song

#a'soalin #all souls day #folklore #soul cakes

36 notes · View notes

nickysfacts · 2 years

Text

Happy Halloween!

🧟‍♂️🍫🦸🏼‍♀️

Good luck getting a mountain of sweets tonight!

👸🏾🍭🧛🏻‍♂️

10 notes · View notes

wistfulcynic · 2 years

Text

blessed samhain

this year has been... not great in a lot of ways. Full of loss and struggle and without much to indicate that the future might bring relief from them. If anything, the future’s looking pretty effing grim. So i went a little more solemn for Samhain, with a candle and a smooth stone and quiet reflection on what’s gone that i still miss but also on what’s here that i treasure.

i also made a few tweaks to my soul cakes recipe. While i like the saffron and don’t want to omit it, it does tend to be such a dominant flavour and difficult to balance that i decided to brown my butter and infuse a few saffron threads in it while it cooled. This makes the overall flavour richer and softens the saffron to a lovely background note that doesn’t overwhelm. Also, as i halved the recipe and didn’t want to try to grapple with half an egg yolk, i substituted a tablespoon of applesauce for the yolk. The result was a nice tartness and less richness, which definitely suited my mood this year.

my original recipe can be found here. Modified recipe is as follows:

ingredients:

1/2 c (115 g) butter

small pinch saffron

1/2 c (115 g) granulated sugar

pinch of salt

1 large egg

1 T applesauce

1 1/2 c flour (200 g)

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t baking powder

2 T cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg

cinnamon sugar for rolling

directions:

brown the butter (heat slowly in a saucepan. Once it’s melted keep an eye on it, swirling/stirring regularly, until it stops foaming and the solids begin to turn a toasty brown. Be careful not to let it burn!)

set the browned butter aside to cool. Add the pinch of saffron. Saffron can be crushed/chopped first, which is fiddly but helps avoid random saffron strings in your cakes. Once butter is at room temperature, refrigerate it until it’s time to bake.

when you’re ready to make the dough, soften the butter then mix it with the sugar. Beat for at least 2 minutes or until the mixture is very light and fluffy. Add the egg and applesauce and the pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly.

sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add to the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly. Dough will be soft and sticky.

Gather the dough and put it on the centre of a piece of clingfilm (plastic wrap). Wrap it, then form it into the rough shape of a log, twisting the edges of the film and rolling the dough out until it is a smooth cylinder.

Refrigerate for at least 30 mins, up to overnight.

at baking time, preheat the oven to 375F/190C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and have it ready. Remove the dough from the fridge and unwrap it. Roll it in cinnamon sugar until the sides are well coated. Slice it with a sharp knife into rounds about 1/4 inch (6mm) thick. Place these on the parchment-lined sheet. If necessary, pinch and press them until they are a nice round shape. Press a cross into each one using a dull knife (you may need to wet it in between each one, as the dough will stick).

bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are just starting to brown and the bottoms are dry. They should still be soft in the middle. Let cool on the baking sheet before removing to a plate.

good with any kind of tea or hot drink of your choice, apple butter, jelly, or just on their own.

Samhain blessings on you all 🕯

#samhain #recipes #soul cakes

3 notes · View notes

ljones41 · 2 years

Text

Traditional HALLOWEEN Food

Below are images of food traditionally eaten on Halloween, Samhain and All Saints’ Day:

TRADITIONAL HALLOWEEN FOOD

Apple Cake - Cakes that incorporate apples in a variety of forms; including diced, pureed, or stewed. They also include common additions like raisins, nuts, and 'sweet' spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg.

Beef and Guinness Pie - A meat pie with a filling that consists of Irish beef and Guinness - two of Ireland's most famous products. The long slow cooking of the filling creates tender beef and allows the flavor of the Guinness to permeate the meat and the vegetables to produce a thick, luscious sauce.

Colcannon (Irish Mashed Potatoes) - A traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes with cabbage or kale.

Meatball Soup -

Pumpkin Pie - A dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. The pumpkin and pumpkin pie are both a symbol of harvest time and are generally eaten during the fall and early winter.

Soul Cakes - Also known as a soul mass-cake, this dessert is a small round cake with sweet spices that resemble a shortbread biscuit. They are traditionally made for Halloween, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day to commemorate the dead in many Christian traditions.

#food #holidays #halloween #soul cakes #colcannon #pumpkin pie #meatball soup #beef and guinness pie #apple cake #samhain #all saints day #traditional halloween food

4 notes · View notes

moonhedgegarden · 2 years

Text

I’m making soul cakes and doing a remembrance ritual for the forgotten on the first day of Juneteenth. I’m prepping for it now and deeply looking forward to it.

This passed year, I discovered so much about my ancestors. Down to where they were sold for 200 dollars. That was incredibly devastating and change the view my myself and how I move through life.

If anyone wants, I can share the site that black folx can use to start digging for their roots as well. Let me know!

5 notes · View notes

jrwimaging · 4 months

Text

#soul cakes #show #lux #upstate ny #rochester #band #alternative #rock #editorial #photograph #photojournalism

0 notes

cateyedfox36 · 6 months

Text

first day off!

oh my sweet lovely goddess! It feels so good to know I have 5 days off.

Im finishing up the salt skulls the kids didn't do, then im going get soul cakes cooked and make a little All souls Day spread for my ancestors and any spirits who come to visit.

Tomorrow it's "clean the basement day" so I can get it converted to arts and crafts corner.

Friday? Who fuckings knows. Sky's the limit when you've got days off!

Arts! Crafts!Housework! Yard work!

Living my best house spouse life!

#House spouse!#Three days off!#Fuck yeah #Arts #Crafts #Baking #All souls Day #Soul cakes #Ancestors #Spirits #arts and crafts

0 notes

angeltreasure · 7 months

Text

#soul cakes

26 notes · View notes

detectivedaphy · 2 years

Text

Day 29 (Baking) and Day 30 (Foraging)

1 note · View note

academyoftheheartandmind · 2 years

Text

Soul Cakes

By Stephanie Greene I’m making soul cakes for Jesse, my lost brother. In times of turmoil, we turn to charms. I don’t have fingernail clippings or tender little bouquets of his hair to include in some spell; I’m improvising here. The medievals have us beat, reaching as they did, beyond death. On All Souls’ Day, mendicants went door to door, offering prayers for the errant souls still trapped…

View On WordPress

#academy of the heart and mind #academyoftheheartandmind #Fiction #short fiction #short story #Soul Cakes #Stephanie Greene

0 notes

thepenguisalive7 · 6 months

Text

Red has a dad, green has a mom, and blue has their attack dog ✨✨

#qsmp #badboyhalo #qsmp fanart #bbh #badboyhalo fanart #team soul fire #pac qsmp #pac fanart #pac #cake duo #cute duo

1K notes · View notes

tutterypuff · 8 months

Text

I'VE BEEN SLEEPING A THOUSAND YEARS, GOT TO OPEN MY EYES TO EVERYTHING

#fionna and cake #Simon Petrikov #adventure time #the lyrics are hilariously relevant #without a soul my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold #all this time I can't believe I couldn't see kept in the dark but you were there in front of me #frozen inside without your touch without your life darling only you are life among the dead #get it together Simon #and he would #he is cringe

2K notes · View notes