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Step 2Bitter Batter!
Next time I make this cake i want to make it in the shape of the thermometer shown on the side of hot sauce bottles.
For some variety you could even bake flat sheets of every flavor and cut them into the shape of a pepper, flame, or any shape that inspires you.
First the boring part: mix the batter for your confetti cake and pour it into a circular baking pan. This would be the "bulb" of my spice-o-meter cake. Place in oven and bake as instructions on box show.
HABANEROS!!! That is the real reason you are reading this isn't it! Well here it is: mix a box of chocolate cake mix just as the instructions show BUT... do this first:
Measure out how much milk is needed in the batter, pour that into your food processor (or blender) and add 3 Habaneros (I would recommend you remove the seeds unless you want to be sweating bullets from these miniature hot and spicy grenades!)
Blend the milk/pepper mace...um...I-mean flavoring until the pepper bits are about the size of sand from 60 grit sand paper. (this is not an exact science after all you just want to mesh all of the flavor into the milk)
For those of you chemists (or molecular gastronomists) out there you may recognize that the milk will counteract the heat from the peppers. This is another aspect that makes this cake so much fun! More on that later!
So, you have this milk/pepper mixture, use all of that (since it was measured before it was blended) in the chocolate cake mix. If you feel so daring you can incorporate this into your own cake recipe but an "Out of the Box" cake mix is a little easier and that is how I had originally made the cake. Let me know how it turns out if you use your own cake recipes' in conjunction with this.
Use the same strategy for the Jalapeno cake as you did for the Habanero cake.
For some variety you could even bake flat sheets of every flavor and cut them into the shape of a pepper, flame, or any shape that inspires you.
First the boring part: mix the batter for your confetti cake and pour it into a circular baking pan. This would be the "bulb" of my spice-o-meter cake. Place in oven and bake as instructions on box show.
HABANEROS!!! That is the real reason you are reading this isn't it! Well here it is: mix a box of chocolate cake mix just as the instructions show BUT... do this first:
Measure out how much milk is needed in the batter, pour that into your food processor (or blender) and add 3 Habaneros (I would recommend you remove the seeds unless you want to be sweating bullets from these miniature hot and spicy grenades!)
Blend the milk/pepper mace...um...I-mean flavoring until the pepper bits are about the size of sand from 60 grit sand paper. (this is not an exact science after all you just want to mesh all of the flavor into the milk)
For those of you chemists (or molecular gastronomists) out there you may recognize that the milk will counteract the heat from the peppers. This is another aspect that makes this cake so much fun! More on that later!
So, you have this milk/pepper mixture, use all of that (since it was measured before it was blended) in the chocolate cake mix. If you feel so daring you can incorporate this into your own cake recipe but an "Out of the Box" cake mix is a little easier and that is how I had originally made the cake. Let me know how it turns out if you use your own cake recipes' in conjunction with this.
Use the same strategy for the Jalapeno cake as you did for the Habanero cake.
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