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Mexican Chocolate Cake Recipe
April 6, 2003
I've tried Mexican hot chocolate, and Mexican chocolate pudding, but until now-never Mexican chocolate cake. I'll tell you upfront, this was a complete homerun.
Let's jump back to about 5 years ago when a good friend came back from one of his frequent Green Tortoise south-of-the-border adventures, and brought back a neat little 6 sided yellow box filled with 6 paper wrapped chocolate tablets. This chocolate had a cinnamon flavor, and a grainy sugar texture, and an aroma that was different from any other chocolate I've tried-it was a box of Ibarra Mexican chocolate tablets. Since then I've had my eye out for good Mexican chocolate recipes.
I came across the Mexican chocolate cake recipe as I was looking through books at the library in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since then I have also seen an Mexican Chocolate Angel Food Cake at (the delicious) Cucina Picante in Berkeley (6th Street), but haven't tried to make an Angel Food cake yet, let alone a flavored one.
Back to this cake: It was easy to make, I paired the chocolate with an old-fashioned buttermilk batter. Prepped 2 pans, mixed the ingredients together over heat, poured into the pans....bake, make icing (easy), and frost.
The cake was unbelievably moist, and stayed moist as we ate our way through it over the next two days. The icing (also Mexican Choc.) was flavorful, easy to spread and firmed up nicely over night. The cake wasn't a deep, dark brown like most chocolate cakes or brownies, it was slightly lighter in color, which has some sort of psycological effect that makes you think you can get away with eating more of it.
Next time I think I will do a batch of cupcakes using this batter. It is a great, unpredictable take on the chocolate cake for the next time you have pals or family over. I actually left out the toasted ground almonds called for in the recipe, and it was fine-the ground almonds I had seemed to have been in the refrigerator a week or so too long, and had that fridge funk smell.
To feature an actual recipe taken from a cookbook, it is best to request permission from the publisher or author. In the early days on 101 Cookbooks, I would tell people where to find the recipe, but not feature the recipe itself. Eventually I began to request permission to run the actual recipes, but this wasn't one of them. The majority of entries on 101 Cookbooks will have the recipes attached, this just happens to be one of the ones that doesn't. My apologies!
Link: The Border Cookbook
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