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If you want to make the cookies from scratch (that’s what I did for the 1989 Secret Sessions), you can use this recipe I found on a baking blog I like, joythebaker.com and I believe it was originally from a book called The Pastry Queen. If you want another great baking blog, I get a lot of great ideas from smittenkitchen.com too. This is a recipe for basic insanely good sugar cookies. I added the chai element to the recipe because I thought it would infuse cozy holiday vibez into the cookie and it really did. So I’ll star the part that I added in the recipe.

http://joythebaker.com/2009/06/giant-vanilla-sugar-cookies/

***after you add the egg and vanilla, cut one chai tea packet open and empty the crushed up tea leaves into the batter CAUSE CHAI COOKIES ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN UP IN HERE***

I made an icing for the cookies, but they’re fine on their own. If you want to make icing for them, just mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 1/4 T-spoon of nutmeg, 1/4 T-spoon of cinnamon and 3 TAYblespoons <—-(I’m so annoying, it astounds me sometimes) of milk or eggnog if you can find it this time of year. The more milk/eggnog you add, the more your icing will become a glaze. But glazes are legit too so basically just LIVE YOUR LIFE.

I lightly sprinkled cinnamon over the icing once the cookies were baked and iced, but there are so many icing options you can pair with these cookies—I mean it’s out of control. If you’re really feeling like living on the edge, you can go ahead and add a few drops of food coloring to the icing to make it festive. No one is going to stop you.

Why?

Cause the bakers gonna bake bake bake bake bake.

Me again, back with another list! Since @taylorswift so kindly dragged us for not having figured everything out yet, I’m keeping this updated list of all the Easter eggs and hidden meanings we (and by we I mean whoever has custody of the one brain cell the fandom shares each day) have figured out. Enjoy!

Old Taylors fighting in the shadows as new Taylor steps into the daylight and lets it go

Possible TS7 tour stage design hint?

The London skyline in the background of the bridge group scene could really mean a lot of things

Seven clouds and thirteen suitcases could point to 7/13, the next stamp on the calendar

There’s a witch flying upwards at the rainbow Taylor and Brendon are in

Many signs point to a Dixie Chicks collab

The whole video takes place inside a chrysalis

ME! upside down is 13W which could mean 13 weeks, landing us in July for an album release

There are palm trees out the windows of the first hallway in the video

Kaleidoscope theory: Taylor mentioned that “kaleidoscope of loud, heartbeats under coats” was represented on Brendon right after he gives her the kitten. The whole mv world could be inside a kaleidoscope. A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. 

When she is on the unicorn gargoyle, there is a neon sign that says “Lover”, which could possibly be the album name or another track name. She was also wearing a shirt that said “Lovers” in rep tour rehearsals.

The sidewalk the snake is on in the beginning is drawn on with chalk, an allusion to Why She Disappeared

She wears cowboy boots and there is a Christmas tree, possibly pointing to a return to her roots. Strengthened by last year’s “Take Me Home” insta post on 7/13

The Angel Theory: band of angels during the 60′s scene, that instagram comment that one time, her dress in the promo pics, Los Angeles

The idea that the album may be called “💗” is supported by pretty much everything Taylor has typed and done in the last 6 months

More support for Home: her 7/13 insta post saying “Take Me Home”, the Wizard of Oz vibes of the mv pointing to “there’s no place like home,” and people can see the word “Home” spelled in the background of the 60′s scene

Lots of LWYMMD music video parallels, including the staircase, the shadows of Taylors fighting, and the phone used on the rep tour

The storm that happens when she touches the phone from rep tour could symbolize the media storm of her phone call with K*nye and how she had to just wait for it to pass over her

“I know I never think before I jump” is a parallel to her Elle lesson where she essentially says the same thing

Taylor’s shadow in the hallway looks like the Speak Now album cover. Added to the other old Taylor shadows fighting in the entryway, this could hint at a look back at past eras

The Entertainment Weekly Cover

Apparently all the pins she is wearing are clues to songs

TS7 will be longer than any of her previous releases (so at least 16 songs)

Possible collabs with Drake, Troye Sivan, Dixie Chicks, Selena Gomez

there are some joyful songs, bops and “really, really, really, really sad songs”

she is feeling more comfortable being brave and vulnerable enough to share stories