CAKE!!
I don’t know what possessed me, but something made me do it. Maybe it’s because I had a bunch of heavy cream and didn’t want it to go to waste… or maybe I was craving it, but I made a chocolate cake last week—drum roll please—FROM SCRATCH! With fresh whipped cream on top! I know! I’m sort of shocked about it too.
I had been eyeing a recipe in Natural Health Magazine from way back in November. I dog-eared the page, and since it’s been in the bathroom… I’ve been seeing it a lot. Enough said about my tiny pregnancy bladder. I looked on the Natural Health website, but it’s not there. However, I found it here (recipe is at the bottom of the page). It’s the dark chocolate chile cake. The only omission I made was the pumpkin puree in the whipped cream. I didn’t want to buy a can of puree, only to use 1 tablespoon. Plus, I added a couple of shakes of cayenne pepper to the cake batter to give it a little kick (although Mike claims it could have been spicier).
Just revel in its chocolatey goodness! Mmmmm.
Given my experience with baking debacles (of which I’ve had MANY), this cake came out perfectly! I will definitely be making it again.
Yes, yes you will! We need some sort of cake saver so it doesn’t dry out so fast!
I’m sorry, but putting peppers in a Chocolate Cake is a crime against humanity.
Says the guy who lives in “hot pepper land” :) You’ll just have to trust me that it’s delicious!