#xorhas

[whirlingbadger]

[sfaira]

I love all the Essek fanart on here, I had to finally draw the floaty boy myself. I love him. Cleaner version and a concept sketch I did.

[odd-alchemist]

In this moment of twilight we see each other not for who we have been but who we could be. The light you cast only conceals the shaded daggers within my heart. In this twilight there is hope.

[asunsetinacup]

Tiefling Horns

@criticalbakes​ Week 6- Jester Lavorre

For Jester, the pastry queen, I knew I had to make something pretty special. Rewatching the campaign 2 I still laughed at her outrage that Xhorhas doesn’t have elephant ears or their cinnamony flavor! (I mean I get it, never eating cinnamon sounds like a terrible life) Instead of going with the fried dough county fair verity, I went with the flaky, puff pastry kind.  With the fruit fillings, they ended up looking like tiefling horns, so I renamed them! I went a little overboard on the baking this week with a pretty cute strawberry batch, a yummy cinnamon one, and blueberry one good enough for a hag :)  

This recipe is based on the mini elephant ears from king arthur flour, however, my method is a little different. 

Ingredients

Rough Puff Dough:

2 1/4 c All Purpose Flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

12 tbsp. cold butter, cut into pats

3/4 c sour cream

Granulated sugar to roll the dough out onto

Cinnamon Filling:

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 c powdered sugar

Fruit Filling:

1/2 c freeze dried fruit (I used strawberries for 1 batch and blueberries for another)

1/2 c powdered sugar

(Choose 1 filling)

Process

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and baking soda.

2. Cut  the butter into the flour with 2 butter knives or a pastry cutter until the butter is about the size of a pea. 

3. Stir in the sour cream until a very stiff and rough dough forms, then turn the dough out onto a floured surface.

4. Shape the dough into a rectangle and fold in thirds like a letter. Use a rolling pin to flatten back out into a rectangle. Repeat folding a flattening 2 more times. Wrap the dough tightly and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.   

5. To make the cinnamon filling, combine the ingredients. To make the fruit fillings, blitz everything together in a blender or food processor until it becomes a fine powder, then sift to remove any clumps or seeds. 

6. Cover your work surface with a layer of granulated sugar. Then roll 1/2 the dough out to a 14x7 rectangle on top of the sugar. Cover the surface of the dough in 1/2 of the filling and press it gently into the dough. 

7. Roll both 14 inch long ends tightly towards the center of the dough like a scroll. They should meet in the middle. Gently press each roll together to keep the shape tight. Cover tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for 2 hours.

8. When your dough is ready, preheat the oven to 425F/200C. 

9. Cut the cookie log into 1/4 inch thick cookies and place on a tray 1 in. apart. 

10. Bake for 9* minutes, flip and bake for 3 more minutes

*watch these cookies closely, you may have to adjust the time. Look for them to just start to turn golden around the edge.

[aeor-falls-to-ruin]

God, I thought nothing could make me like the Dynasty more, but then MATT FUCKING MERCER made their monarch GAY and so now I guess I'm just a Xhorhassean now.

[fluffmonger]

Things I think about at midnight, apparently: Fiber crafts and traditions across exandria, feat speculation on traditional xorhassian method and motifs vs traditional zemnian method and motif

[kcdahippie]

Watching them fast travel across places is so weird considering they spent forever crawling underneath a tunnel to get to Xorhas. 

[ophelialmx]

Interesting implication from the Bright Queen.

A crime was done, so someone must pay, full stop.

Thus, regardless of whether the Taskhand ever willingly participated in that crime, if his is the only head available, it may still roll.