Now with Thanksgiving and Halloween over, you’d think I’d back off the witchy and wizarding treats. You’d be wrong, though. Recently my good friend Chelsea Steverson (of D&D story podcast North by North Quest) invited me to roll some virtual dice in the Harry-Potter-meets-Mean-Girls world of Witch Girls Adventures on her Twitch Channel.
Not wanting to miss a chance to play pretend in my little red witch hat, not only did I accept, but I also whipped up a cookie recipe inspired by the game’s featured NPC, Princess Lucinda!
Click here to skip to the recipe for Princess Lucinda’s Hexy Biscuits!
Click here to find out more information about our upcoming Twitch game of Witch Girls Adventures!
Witch Girls Adventures
So Witch Girls Adventures is a tabletop role-playing-game by Malcolm Harris of Channel M Publishing. Though aimed at teen and tween girls, this game is suitable for anyone who’s wanted and never received their Hogwarts letter.
Gameplay and character creation is simple enough with base dice values based on cliques and point-bought modifiers. You can play a glittery goth witch casting a spell over cyberspace. Or you can a sorceress dominating space, time, and the school government. Your options are limited only by your imagination.
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A Game with The Gluttonous Geek
If you want to get a better idea for the Witch Girls system, you can download a free character creation guide on DriveThruRPG. OR you can tune in and watch me play a four-session campaign with an all-female cast on Little Red Dot’s Twitch channel starting this Friday at 7 pm EST.
Our cast includes:
Tiffany Alvord (Valen Mor from D&D story podcast North by North Quest) as Persephone “Percy” Rosewood. As a nature witch, Percy enjoys fashion blogging, granola bars, and the balance of the elements.
Marsie Vellan (GM for Monte Cook Games’ Owl of Lysia) as Daria Dearheart. Daria is a powerful sorceress who’s all about altering and re-purposing matter, her adorable pet lizard, and altering and re-purposing her adorable pet lizard.
Shauna Nakasone (Co-host of Powers Score RPG’s Waffletalk) as Jessamine “Jess” Hana, a broom-racing witch with a penchant for healing people whether with her magic or with her trophy-winning heart.
Renee Rhodes (GM of all-female D&D actual-play podcast Fate and the Fablemaidens) as Morwen Locke. Morwen is a witch who doesn’t let her contended past get in the way of her manipulating Time and Space.
Aras Sivad (Crafter of tabletop-RPG Accessories company, Aras Custom Designs) as Raven Callahan. An alteration witch with an avian obsession, Raven loves changing things into brightly colored birds and finding her new ways to fly.
And I, Catherine Barson Eastis (of The Gluttonous Geek), will be playing Loretta Maytree. Loretta, or Lottie May, is a cooking conjurer straight out of TV Land sitcoms. Awakened from a world of black and white, she finds herself fascinated by fashion and anything colorful.
We start playing live on Little_Red_Dot’s channel beginning this Friday at 7 pm, eastern time. Come and watch our magical misfits survive both schoolyard bullies and schoolgirl crushes while they prepare for the Willow Mistt Yule Cotillion!
Princess Lucinda, Queen Killer Bee of Willow Mistt
So for this post, I chose to feature Witch Girls Adventures’ most prominent NPC, Princess Lucinda Nightbane. As the Regina George of the Witch Girls’ world, she’s rich, powerful, beautiful, and above all scary. We see her transforming mundanes and magic folk alike into whatever forms suit her — usually that of amphibians, insects, and small rodents.
Being raised as royalty in a magical, multi-dimensional empire, Lucinda finds it more difficult to relate to the beings of Earth. Finding them backward and inferior, she punishes anyone who does not recognize her superiority.
She’s not entirely incapable of empathy, though. It’s the friends she makes at the Willow Mistt School who accept her and help her channel her monstrous powers and vindictive personality to aid others. While this witch is likely not Glinda-bound for a long time, Princess Lucinda’s story shows us that the most powerful magic in the multi-verse is friendship.
Cookies for Conjurers
In the Witch Girls Adventures Character-Creation Guide, we see a comic where Princess Lucinda and her friends from Willow-Mistt go camping and save a herd of unicorns. Having no patience for sleeping on the ground, Lucinda conjures up a bigger-on-the-inside tent/palace complete with private bedrooms, a full staff of servants, and a gourmet kitchen baking a plethora of fresh cookies.
With this in mind, I thought I would develop a cookie recipe using traditionally witchy ingredients while flaunting the traditional cookie flavors. I decided to make a chocolate and hazelnut based cookie spiced with clove and black magic pepper, and spiked with coffee powder.
Cloves dispel rumors, ensure spell success, and attract money. It would make sense for Princess Lucinda to use this spice often as it allows her to perform her magical atrocities without recourse.
Black pepper used to be one of the most expensive spices in medieval Europe and may have played a role in Persian Astrological Magic to invoke Venus’s power of granting wishes. In Hoodoo it’s also used in protection and attack magic. Seeing that Lucinda’s family has enough power and money to make the Koch Brothers blush, it seems that they may be onto something with that cookie recipe.
Hazel trees (and thus hazelnuts) hold strong connections to Celtic folklore. They hang over the Well of Wisdom in the Otherworld, mark the borders between worlds, bestow prophetic powers, and protect people from evil, faeries, witches, and evil faerie witches. Once again, something Princess Lucinda would find very useful given the number of enemies she’s gained through the years.
I originally planned on making cookie brooms, but I found the dough stretches a little too easily when cutting. Try using a cutter with a broader image – like bats, witch hats, or skulls. Anything thinner will fall apart while transferring to a baking sheet.
Baked up, these Hexy Biscuits go well with milk, coffee, and even freshly brewed cider. Conjure up a batch to share with your coven over a game of Witch Girls Adventures. Or you can snack on some while you watch our game on Little_Red_Dot’s Twitch channel. Join us every Friday at 7 pm eastern time starting this week, finishing with the Yule Cotillion finale on Friday, December 21st.
Learn more about Witch Girls Adventures here.
Follow Witch Girls Adventures on Twitter here.
Download the free character creation guide here.
Watch us play Witch Girls Adventures here.
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Princess Lucinda's Hexy Biscuits
Equipment: Oven, wire whisk, stand mixer, mixing bowl, rolling pin, bat cookie cutter, parchment paper, baking sheets, and cooling rack.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon ground clove
- 1/2 cup crushed hazelnut
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
Instructions:
- Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of stand mixer with the paddle attachment until fluffy — about 3 minutes.
- Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, salt, pepper, coffee powder, black pepper, and clove together in a separate bowl.
- Add the egg and vanilla to the stand mixer bowl and reduce the speed to low. Gradually add the flour mixture until combined.
- Remove the bowl from the mixer then fold the hazelnuts in with a spatula. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350° F then line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Divide the dough into 6 portions then dust your workspace with flour. Roll out a portion to 1/4 inch thickness then cut and release cookies onto the lined baking sheet. Repeat until you run out of dough.
- Bake in the oven 7 to 10 minutes until there is a slight resistance to the cookies’ centers. Cool the cookies completely on a rack before serving.
