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!

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It’s from flickr user hfb and is a “chocolate brownie topped with chocolate mousse and a black currant gelee.”

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This week’s Chocolate Zen is a delicious-looking hot chocolate. I’m not sure why it’s in a glass but it sure looks pretty!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I need to make a Starbucks run for another Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate (get it with a shot of espresso – it’s amazing! Thanks for the idea, 6thFloor!).

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This week’s Chocolate Zen is a simple chocolate birthday cake I found on flickr. It was made with a ganache frosting and looks delicious!

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