Because chocolate candy with chiles is delicious, because I adore flourless chocolate cakes and also because of the movie Chocolat, the next cake had to be page 238, Chile Chocolate Peanut Torte. Remaining true to the Michelle's recipe except for 3 deviations, this is my new Favorite Thing in the World. Switching pecans for peanuts, bumping 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon to 1 full teaspoon, and adding 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne to the oncho chile worked for me. An extra egg also went into the batter, but that was only because this box of large eggs seemed on the small side.
During a wet snow near the end of a far too long winter, there's nothing like baking to soothe the winter-weary soul. The smell of this cake - the nuts, the chocolate, especially the chiles - permeated the house like the essence of comfort.
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