Looking for a dense and deep chocolate cake

[holy chow]

Here is the concept, I want to do a dense and thin chocolate cake with habenaro. Kind of a sweet, rich and spicy cake, however, I don't bake (see what happens when your new Kitchenaid Pro lands at the doorstep).

Anyone have a good recipe?

[digkv]

An excellent chocolate cake is the chocolate stout cake http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/107105 but it may not be the dense and thin cake you want. What you probably want is a flourless chocolate cake; while I can't reccomend this recipe, it received pretty favorable reviews: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/rec... I think you could probably add a chopped habenero during the melting process. Good luck in baking

[JasmineG]

This recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini for Chocolate Chili Bites has its base as a chocolate cake; she converted it to add chili and make in mini muffin tins, but you could just add chili and bake as a cake: http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archi...

[holy chow]

Well, acting on this wild hare here is where I went:

1lb bittersweet chocolate
1lb butter
3 habanero's sliced
1-ish cups of coffee (richness and depth)
a bit of cinnamon

Melted butter and peppers first, then pulled out the peppers and added the rest.

Drank some wine.

Pulled from fire and cooled for about seven or ten minutes.

8 eggs
1 tablespoon of vanilla
3/4 cup sugar

Whipped eight big eggs with a tablespoon of vanilla and 3/4 cup sugar in the new machine to a froth. Added the chocolate slowly.

Put in a buttered and papered spring form (9") and now drinking wine.... er.... baking for an hour or better (sea level at 350*).

The mix tasted just hot enough to warm you and rich enough to be a "small slice" type of cake.

[holy chow]

...and finished.

Good stuff. The cake is rich with choclate but has a nice burn right at the end.