Incredible Chocolate Bundt Cake with Chipotle Praline

Chocolate. I like chocolate. I like dark chocolate. I like milk chocolate. I like white chocolate. Chocolate covered cherries…chocolate covered strawberries..chocolate covered raisins…no chocolate covered grasshoppers though.

We host a home group meeting every Wednesday night for our church…Some of you may know them as small groups, or cell groups.  The thing is that if you have people from church coming over, with the possibility of the pastor dropping by, you want to have your house sparkling like..well, sparkling. You want the kids to be perfect, preferably with one of their GOOD school papers laying out in an obvious place so you can yell, ” Thoreau! Get this report on Nuclear Fusion and It’s Role in the Da Vinci Code off the coffee table right now!”…and you want a really awesome dessert. Seriously awesome. A dessert that causes the pastor to mention it in his sermon on Sunday. Thus, chocolate.

Not that I am the type of person to kiss up like that.

Anyway..this cake was good but I felt like it needed something to make it more intense so I changed the amounts of cocoa, added Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa rather than the normal (you can get it on Amazon if it isnt available locally..and it is worth it.) , added chocolate chips, and the praline chipotle glaze rather than plain chocolate.

and this is what was left after the meeting…..

Incredible Chocolate Bundt Cake with Chipotle Praline

10-12 servings

1 c hersheys special dark cocoa

2 c strong coffee

2 sticks of butter (unsalted)

1 1/2 c sugar

1/2 c brown sugar

2 c flour

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/3 c milk chocolate chips

1/3 c dark chocolate chips

1/3 c semi sweet chocolate chips

Grease bundt pan and dust with 2 tbs of cocoa. Preheat oven to 325F.

Mix flour, baking soda, and salt  and set aside.

Heat coffee to boiling and stir in butter and cocoa, whisking until smooth. Let cool a bit. Stir in vanilla

Mix sugars and eggs in mixer until fluffy, add coffee mixture alternating with flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.

Pour into bundt pan and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until cake tests done. Let cool 10 minutes. Invert pan on cake plate and leave until cool. remove bundt pan. Spoon warm glaze over cake.

Glaze:

1/4 c unsalted butter, melted

1/4 c brown sugar

stir together in pan over medium heat until sugar is no longer grainy. Remove from heat and add:

2 tsp dried chipotle (chopped,not powdered)

1/4 c coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans, almonds, hazlenuts, pistachios, or whatever.