Back in the day, a coating of wax or a combination of cloth and lard/gee was used as a way of packaging and protecting cheese from mold and keeping moisture in until it was properly aged and ready for use. You would go to the grocery store and pickup a can-shaped “block” of American or Cheddar, and it was covered in a red wax that you would remove before shredding it for tacos. (Monterey Jack? Cojita? Anyone?!) Then, if you were of a certain age and so inclined, you could heat the wax in your hands and knead it into a “dough” to make shapes.

Vacuum-sealing is more frequently the manner in which most consumer cheese is showing up, these days. However, you can still get that same wax-covered cheese experience with Babybel Cheese Snacks®. In addition to them being a tasty snack, you can put that wax to witchy use and make little dollies out of it, or use it for the center of a jack ball, or to seal a nutmeg, egg, or bottle work, use it to cover the eyes or the mouth on a dollie or a saint statue, or inscribe sigils in it—to give you but a few ideas.