Eclectic Witchery

This is my original recipe.

You will need:

1 3/4 cups all purpose flower

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup cocoa

1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk (any kind but I use whole)

2 tbsp water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 cup boiling water

2 teaspoons instant coffee granules

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar (then as needed)

2/3 cup heavy cream

16oz semi sweet chocolate chips

1 stick butter

Mini marshmallows (optional)

White chocolate kisses (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350° F (176° C)

Mix together sifted flour, cocoa, and sugar. Stir together until combined. Sifting them together is a very important step, you can use a strainer if you don't have a sifter.

Add in salt, baking soda, baking powder, and stir thoroughly with wooden spoon.

In a small bowl, put together eggs, oil, milk, vegetable oil, and one tsp vanilla. Beat until well combined with a hand mixer.

Add boiling water into the wet ingredients slowly and stir as you do.

Once combined, pour batter onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Make sure the batter is spread evenly, this is very important.

Bake for about 20 minutes, or until it looks like cake. Be careful NOT to overbake it!!

Let cake rest on cookie sheet for about 10 minutes, then transfer onto a cloth towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Remove the parchment paper, run a cold wet cloth on top of the parchment to help it remove easier.

Roll the cake up inside the towel, starting with a short side. Let cake COMPLETELY cool.

While the cake cools, it's time to mix the filling. This particular filling is coffee flavored, but substitute coffee granules for cocoa powder if you want more chocolate.

Blend the whipped cream, coffee granules, and 1/2 cup powdered sugar together to form the filling. Let it cool until it is thick and firm.

After the cake has completely cooled down, unroll the cake from the towel, and you have no further use for the towel.

Use a spatula to evenly spread the cold filling across the cake, stopping about a half inch from the edge.

Roll the cake back up and place it on the platter you will serve it on. Allow to chill for at least 3 hours.

For the frosting, in one bowl, take 1 stick of butter at room temperature and 1 cup powdered sugar and remaining teaspoon of vanilla and cream together with a hand mixer.

Once it is well mixed together, melt down chocolate chips fully and all heavy cream in a separate bowl together. Mix until well combined and then add to frosting. Let refrigerate until thick and cool.

Once there, spread frosting evenly on the cake. Covering both the sides and the top.

(Optional) use toothpicks and put a white chocolate kiss and a mini marshmallow on it, creating the appearance of a mushroom.

Water:

Sit in a body of water, a natural one or a bath. Feel where the water touches your skin. Find the line at the surface, where it touches you. Go around your whole body. Feel weightless.

Drink a glass of water, slowly and steadily. Feel it travel down your throat and into the rest of your body. Finish the glass.

Listen to the rain, the waves, the babbling brook. Feel the sound. Let it vibrate through you until your vibrations match.

Air:

Feel the wind on your face. Let the spread-out pieces of you be picked up by the wind, and pushed back to you. Let the wind carry the unnecessary stresses away. 

Deep breath in. Deep breath out. Repeat.

Take a word, sound, or phrase. Repeat it or sing it, find that pitch and speed that feels right.

Fire:

Feel the heat from a fire, let it warm your bones.

You are a candle flame. Sit or stand tall. Let the excess energy burn up and out the top of your head like smoke. Flicker as needed.