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Cute Owls That Kids and Adults Can't Resist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people celebrate Halloween today. It\u2019s an Americanized celebration of All Hallows\u2019 Eve, which very few people celebrated just 20 years ago. But at its core, it\u2019s a spookier celebration of evil spirits, death, wickedness, and darkness. A strange, occult festival that many have embraced as something fun\u2014but why do we have it, anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, this has to do with the fact that there has been a global, media-driven desensitization campaign over the past 40+ years. Both Hollywood and the entire celebrity machine have lulled most people into a kind of cultural hypnosis. We\u2019ve been thoroughly immersed in Americanization, and that has only made it easier to fall for traditions that don\u2019t belong to our culture at all\u2014and Halloween is just one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember the first time I experienced Halloween. It was a little over 25 years ago, and it wasn\u2019t in Denmark or mainland Europe. It was in England, where I was studying in London. Back then, it was a completely different celebration\u2014it was more aesthetic than scary, which is something you can\u2019t say about how people celebrate it today, when I often feel really queasy as I walk past my neighbors\u2019 houses or go to the supermarket. Where blood, zombies, mummies, blood-dripping dolls, and severed limbs, bleeding fingers, and who knows what else are on full display for everyone to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what Halloween has become in the 2020s, and it\u2019s all happened in less than 20 years. The darker, more macabre, and more disgusting, the better. Driving through American suburban neighborhoods is downright uncomfortable. Skeletons and zombies several meters tall stand there, moving about with repulsive, satanic lights in their eyes. Somewhere in Connecticut, on a trip from Boston down to Orlando, we saw that an entire street had been transformed into a horror street, where these several-meter-tall monstrosities just stood there, swaying and moving, covered in blood, murder weapons, lights, and tons of fake spiderwebs. Everyone along the road seemed to have gone all-in on evil, and it gets so disgusting that you have to tell your kids to cover their eyes while you sit there sending prayers into the ether to avoid being embraced by the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel it\u2019s completely wrong to teach our children to glorify all that is evil, all that no one wants; I think we need to be very cautious about what we invite into our lives. It\u2019s not even a Danish or European tradition, and yet people have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker after years of marketing and desensitization of adults and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I went to my first Halloween party, the place was beautifully decorated with cheerful or whimsical pumpkin lanterns; there were lots of candles, fun cakes, and other fall-themed decorations. Today, it\u2019s a mix of horror, gore, and zombies, and it\u2019s celebrated on a much larger scale than ever before. It\u2019s a collective celebration of eeriness and evil. It has nothing to do with the Martha Stewart-style Halloween of the past\u2014which is what I was introduced to back in London a long time ago\u2014when glittery pumpkins, fairy houses, and a few cookie bats were the wildest things imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that's how the enemy always starts things off\u2014slowly but surely. With a gentle touch, you're lured into the web, and before you know it, you're completely caught up in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I\u2019ve decided that we can certainly celebrate something else\u2014something more important. After all, why not go against the grain? We celebrate Jesus every day, and with the arrival of fall, the cozy atmosphere and the delicate beauty of the season are a natural part of creation\u2014and that is worth celebrating, rather than the gloom and evil that are as undesirable as anything can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when everyone\u2019s running around outside booing, we shut that out, light some beautiful candles, decorate with fall motifs, and bake sweet and beautiful cakes. I call it Hyggeween\u2014a cozy celebration of fall and the beauty of creation. Celebrating what\u2019s good and beautiful, warm and loving, instead of the opposite. A celebration that doesn\u2019t desensitize our children into accepting evil as something good and fun. We don\u2019t need any more evil or gloom in this world\u2014our progress (or decline) has created more than enough of that already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our world is practically bursting with it. We need Jesus, peace, tranquility, candlelight, warmth, beautiful pumpkins, hearty soups, delicious pies, and a brownie owl. So last night, I stood there baking brownies with the kids and decorating them. It takes time to make the little owls, but it\u2019s so much fun to see how different their expressions turn out\u2014it\u2019s as if they have their very own cake personalities. I\u2019ve shared the recipe below; it\u2019s easy and really delicious, and you can make them for a birthday, too. The most important thing is to find some good-quality chocolate buttons that aren\u2019t full of junk\u2014I managed to do that, and here\u2019s the result: our little Hyggeween Owls, perfect for any cozy occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hyggeween Owls<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Brownie Owls to celebrate Hyggeween, if\u2014like us\u2014you prefer hygge to spookiness. They\u2019re always a treat, though, and a hit with chocolate-loving kids of all ages.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t
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Prep Time: <\/span>30 minutter<\/span><\/span> minutter<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time: <\/span>25 minutter<\/span><\/span> minutter<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Decoration: <\/span>1 time<\/span><\/span> time<\/span> 30 minutter<\/span><\/span> minutter<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Total Time: <\/span>2 timer<\/span><\/span> timer<\/span> 25 minutter<\/span><\/span> minutter<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
Course: <\/span>Dessert, Cake<\/span><\/div>
Cuisine: <\/span>Baked Goods<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
Quantity: <\/span>18<\/span> Big & Little Owls<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t
Author: <\/span>Belle<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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