Dinda Sheeva Great Chocolate Cakes|Recipes Collection: Mexican Chocolate Cakes

Monday, June 2, 2008

Mexican Chocolate Cakes

I felt my mexican heritage calling when I saw the cake. It was very good, with a nutmeg/cinnamon flavor to it.

VWAV chocolate pudding cake, sans the rum, made with cinnamon and chili instead. Topped off with a scoop of Trader Joe's mango vanilla soy ice cream. Drizzled with chocolate sauce and dusted with cinnamon and chili.

Sugadeaux mexican chili chocolate cake
Chocolate Chipotle cake with mexican choc and chili frosting. Just a subtle hint to warm the tongue...

Flourless chocolate cake, Mexican style
This chocolate cake was a meal in itself. Fresh whipped cream on the side.

Recipe from epicurious.

Made modifications to the serving idea since I was taking this to someone else's house: replaced sauce and cream with a simple chocolate ganache (1/3cup cream boiled and poured over 2/3 to 1 cup of chopped-up chocolate). There wasn't quite enough time to let it all set (2-3h would have been better), but the slightly gooey ganache still worked out ok. The orange slices were difficult to slice through though. Need to find a way to slice the garnishing without totally destroying the cake.
*Not claiming that this is a Mexican cake; epicurious named it as such. To be more accurate, the flavours are inspired by spiced mexican hot chocolate.
Mexican chocolate almond cake