Recipes

[FunkyHulaGirl]

Years ago, first in my NYC HS cafeteria and then later on coffee carts and/or cafeterias at places I worked, I used to love a chocolate spice cake that they sold. It was round, maybe about 5" across, and had a not-too-sweet frosting - more of a ganache, really. This is the closest recipe I could find to those little cakes:

Chocolate Spice Cake



Ingredients:

Servings: 12

1 cup butter or 1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, yolks and whites separated
3 unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
1 cup mashed potatoes
1/2 lemon, zest of
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon clove
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups pecans, lightly toasted and chopped (optional - the cake I remember didn't have them)

Directions:


Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a bundt pan.

Cream butter and sugar.

Add egg yolks one at a time til blended.

Stir in melted chocolate, mashed potatoes, lemon rind, and vanilla.

Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together.

Ad flour mixture to rest of batter alternating with milk.

Fold in pecans.

Beat egg whites and carefully fold them in.

Bake 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool 15 minutes in pan then turn out to cool completely.

NOTE: I make these in large cupcake pans and tip the tops in chocolate ganache to resemble the cakes I remembered and love.

[lovesrecess]

this is also called Mexican chocolate cake...but with more cinnamon and less cloves....I make this instead of plain chocolate cake when I bake. Thanks for sharing.

[FunkyHulaGirl]

It's the clove taste that stand out in my mind - those cakes were soooo good!

[Westbrook1]

Thanks for the recipe, I will try to make it very soon

[spud188]

The lazy way is use a half of a spice cake mix and half chocolate mix.