I’ve been itching to make these Mexican chocolate chips ever since my green tea chocolate chip experiment. We’re big fans of anything that combines spicy flavors and chocolate. So I kicked these dark chocolate chips up a notch by stirring in some cayenne pepper and cinnamon!
Posts Tagged ‘semisweet chocolate’
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake
Recipe: Raspberri Cupcakes' Mint Chocolate Chip Cake
Total time: 1.5 hours
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: caster sugar, peppermint essence, semisweet chocolate
Thank goodness I have a mother-in-law with good taste in birthday cakes.
This past week we traveled to my in-laws to celebrate her birthday. Brad gave me some tips on what she might like for her cake – I was stoked to create something minty and chocolatey for her. This easily ties for first place with another cake I made when visiting them (chai cake with honey ginger cream). It’s super chocolatey and the mint is just perfect; it really reminds your taste buds of ice cream!
Gluten free chocolate cake roll
Recipe: Smitten Kitchen's Heavenly Chocolate Cake Roll
Total time: 2 hours
Ease: Intermediate
Unusual ingredients: semisweet chocolate, heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa powder
It’s like an enormous Ho-Ho. But it’s gluten free, super chocolatey, and you can totally make it yourself.
Honestly, if you didn’t know the ingredients list, you would have no idea that this cake is gluten-free. It has no strange texture or taste; there’s no flour substitute that gives a hint of lack of gluten. This is the one of the tastiest cakes I’ve ever made. In fact, I may create this recipe again, except as a four-layer cake instead of a cake roll!
Now, I won’t kid you. This isn’t the easiest cake to make. In fact, no matter how delicately I handled it or how intently I reread the directions, I couldn’t prevent my cake from cracking. I even used a timer for each step to follow the recipe’s directions. But this should assure you: unless your cake is super duper cracked when you unroll it, you’ll still have a great cake roll! (more…)