Congratulations to Jessica Hoffman, this weeks Feature Friday winner with a super spicy recipe for chocolate cupcakes! If you would like to be featured on KT, it’s as easy as submitting a recipe here.
My awesome friend Julie and I were creating the menu for a Mexican-themed Sheva Bracha Fiesta when I realized that we were missing desserts. On our menu, we had written down: “Fruit and brownies.” Boring! I started thinking about Mexican-themed desserts that I could bake. Coconut lime cookies? Sounds awesome but baking cookies can feel life-sucking. And then I remembered something my sister Melinda of Kitchen Tested fame had introduced me to…cayenne chocolate cheesecake. At first it was sweet and then the spice set my mouth on fire. But the Fiesta was going to be a meat meal, and I prefer to make my cheesecake dairy, so I decided to try making a cayenne chocolate cupcake using semi-homemade ingredients. Adding cinnamon helps meld the two seemingly opposite flavors together, and a hard chocolate cinnamon ganache helps cool it down. We’ll see who’s brave enough to finish an entire cupcake without taking a drink!
About the author: Jessica Hoffman is a Writer, Editor, Mother and T-Ball Enthusiast. For more information, check out http://about.me/JessicaHoffman