Sunday Zen: Chocolate Blackout Cake
June 21, 2009 by Heather R.
Filed under Chocolate Links, Chocolate Pictures
While browsing through flickr this morning, I came across a truly inspired piece of chocolate amazingness:
Bobby Flay’s Chocolate Blackout Cake. He created it for an episode of his Food Network show Throwdown, wherein he had to create a wedding cake to compete against someone who made wedding cakes for a living.
It uses chocolate, ancho chile powder, buttermilk and coffee for the cake, two different kinds of chocolate for the whipped ganache filling, and coconut for the frosting.
I would love to give this a try — and I give props to flickr user kimberlykv who did make it! — but I know my family would never make it through the whole thing before it would be time to toss it, and with that much good chocolate it would be such a waste… I am tempted to do it anyway just try it, though!
[image: flickr]
I volunteer my family to be the recipient of the chocolate blackout cake should you decide to make it. This will spare you from having to throw it out, while giving YOU the thrill of making it.
Hehe! That would totally work!