Spicy Chocolate Cornbread/ Kelli’s Retro Kitchen Arts
Before you skip this recipe and move on to another blog, bear with me a few minutes! I love the site Yum Goggle and if you have not been over there yet, click the link and spend a little time there. It is like a 24 hour a day Linky Party – only with bigger pictures and writing so I can see it! I am a pinner there and as I was perusing the beautiful looking dishes this evening, I came upon this recipe called Chocolate Cornbread from Lillian at My Recipe Journey. I love chocolate and I love cornbread and the picture looked like those Snackin’ Cakes from the 70’s (anyone besides me remember those?). Reading quickly through the recipe I realized I had all the ingredients and it sounded simple enough so I jumped up and went to the kitchen to mix it up!
So………..I’m cruising along grabbing all the ingredients and dancing along with Ellen Degeneres during that part of her show when a got a flash of genius! I thought I would make it a sour cream chocolate cornbread AND I would make it spicy Mexican chocolate. Not only would it have a rustic texture, it would have a kick. I made it up, brought it out of the oven, cooled it, and just couldn’t wait to sample it and…and…and….BAM! It was a little cornbread-y, a little cake-y, a little sweet with a little kick all wrapped up in a giant taste! However, I wanted a little more and so I took the hot fudge ice cream topping out of the fridge and put some on my piece with whipped topping.
A little while later Top Girl and Rocket dropped by for a few minutes so I gave her a piece without saying anything about the spice. She took a bite and was chewing along smiling and then her eyes bugged out. Oops! I should have told her, she’s such a sissy when it comes to spice. After coughing around like she injured her vocal chords or something, she said it would be great if it didn’t have cayenne pepper in it! She took some home to Son-in-law and he just loved it. Mr. Picky Eater is walking around like a boxer looks at his opponent before he pounces. I don’t know if he will try it, but he will really be missing out if he doesn’t! This stuff rocks!
Spicy Chocolate Cornbread/ Kelli’s Retro Kitchen Arts
Here’s the recipe:
Mexican Chocolate Cornbread
2/3 Cup powdered cocoa
2/3 Cup all-Purpose flour
2/3 Cup Corn Meal Mix
½ Cup Milk
½ Cup Sour Cream
1 Egg
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1/3 Cup oil (I used vegetable)
½ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
I thought about using my home-canned green chilies, instead of cayenne pepper, but I didn’t want to waste it if the cornbread didn’t taste good – but I will next time! I think it would be great!
To show you how much in a hurry I was to eat this –while taking the picture it was still so hot the whipped topping slid right off the top! Pretty cool, huh?
Spicy Chocolate Cornbread/ Kelli’s Retro Kitchen Arts
The photos are awesome! Sounds like a wonderful recipe! I love chocolate..
Great job. =)
Thank you Melissa! your most treasured comment is the one about my photos – I have been working so hard on that! Bless your heart for saying it!
Cornbread never looked so ridiculously indulgent 😀
Cheers
CCU
Thank you – I knew you would like it!
I can’t wait to try this and of course I’ll be just as sneaky as you and not say anything, I’ll just let them all think it’s chocolate cake ans watch the reactions.
I cannot wait to see what Joan-Spin you put on it!
This looks amazing!! We would love it if you would link up at our new linky party: Two Girls and a Party Hosted by:
Dana @ This Silly Girl’s Life
Parrish @ Life with the Crust Cut Off
We hope to see you there!
Thank you so much for dropping by and for inviting me – you bet I will be there! Checking it out soon!
That looks amazing!! I’m definitely going to have to make it for my cornbread lover of a husband 😉 I’ll probably eat most of it, but I’ll say it’s for him.
The hot fudge sauce really makes a big difference! 🙂
I am not a big sweet eater but I love the idea of chocolate with cayenne. There is a chocolate bar I buy on occasion that is dark chocolate with chili and I love the bite. I’m going to give this a try!
Hey Stacy – I like sweet and hot together (I have a killer sweet jalapeno recipe) and since this DID taste so good, I’m going to use my Hatch green chilies next time and give it even MORE of a bit. Since you like “hot”, I would rachet it up closer to a Tablespoon instead of a teaspoon of cayenne – then you could REALLY taste it!
Chocolate cornbread?!!! Oh my! I literally hung my mouth open when I saw the first photo. This looks and sounds so incredible!! I’m inspired 🙂
Great! It does taste good. My husband took it for his friends to try and they ate about 1/2 of it before they realized that it was “different” – but they kept eating even after!
What a great twist on traditional cornbread! I like the addition of the cayenne pepper 🙂 I’m your newest ‘like’ over on FB both from my The 21st Century Housewife page and my personal page as well. It’s nice to ‘meet’ you. I’ve come via the With a Blast FB link up.
Hi April! So nice of you to come over and Thanks you for the compliment!- I really am enjoying this FB hop – Love finding new and interesting things and your FB page is certainly one of them! So much fun! In between taking care of my grandest son and cooking up a post for the blog, I’ll be checking out FB pages and blogs today!
I love what you did to my baby!!! You got her all dressed up and pretty!!! So cool! I love the cayenne pepper idea! I’m whimpy with spice too, so I’ll try 1/4 tsp. first! Thank you so much for trying my Chocolate Cornbread recipe and blogging about! (((HUGS)))
I’m so happy you approve – listen, you came up with a winner of a recipe honey, seriously! co-workers love it, friends love it, family loves it – and ALL with something different. Some like it plain like little un-frost petit fours, I like the hot fudge, some love it with vanilla ice cream….and my mom likes it the way she eats much of her cornbread: crumbled in a glass of milk! You came up with something fantastic!
Lillian is great and so is this cornbread. Yum! What a great twist 🙂
Yes she is! I have been exploring her blog and there are some more recipes I really want to try!!
OMG! I hope this might be entered in the chocolate contest!!! 🙂 Looks decadant, Kelli!
Thank you! I was thinking of it but I have something else in mind to – of course, if I can enter more than once……..:)
You are amazing. So glad you shared this yummy recipe with us at Weekend Potluck!
Thanks Marsha! I always enjoy it!
You have been pinned, my dear! Holy cow but this looks insanely, awesomely good. I am definitely going to try this, and maybe even try to make a GF version 🙂
Sounds great! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!! BTW, your fish recipe – has been repinned many times this weekend! Very popular!
The garlic tilapia one?? Awesome! I turned off my Pinterest notices because it was crowding my email box- good to know things are getting pinned though 🙂
You can go to the link and then paste in your URL from whatever post you did and it will tell you how many times it has been repinned and liked. If you don’t have it, I put it on my FB page a week or so ago and you can find it there.
That sounds like something I would really love.
Lillian
lillianscupboard.wordpress.com
It’s really very good and I have already made it again.
Haven’t heard of this site but am definitely checking it out now. This looks more than delicious!
Thank you! It’s a really great little recipe.
This sounds wonderful. I’m definitely going to add it to my ‘to try’ bookmark list. I am such a chocoholic.
You’ll like it – it’s a very different texture – in a good way!
Wow that is a lot of ingredients that I would not think would go together. That’s funny how the topping tried to escape. 🙂
True – but I got it at the very last second after I took the pix! The ingredients work!
Hmm. It’s a little odd but with all that gooey chocolate sauce on it, I’d be willing to try it. I’ll be right over! 🙂
Everything taste better with hot fudge sauce!
That’s a neat idea! Would be nice for a day when you want to try something different.
Thanks Jamie – and thank you for dropping by! Please come back anytime. As soon as I get home, I will be visiting your blog as well!
This looks wonderful! I saw your post over at Wednesday Extravaganza!
Thank you for the compliment and please – come again any time. I just love Wednesday Extravaganza – find so many wonderful recipes there!
This looks yummy! What if I just have regular cornmeal and not cornmeal mix?
Well, it would work fine, just a little bit more “rustic” than with the mix! Thanks for dropping by and please come back again!
I’m absolutely going to try this.
I’ve made it several times since and it is lovely – you will like it!
I can totally get behind this recipe, but also see it with the addition of cinnamon and some ground almonds. There’s already a Mexican hot chocolate I occasionally make that has similar flavors — sometimes thickened with a bit of cornmeal — and made quite spicy with cayenne, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
That sounds delicious! They would probably be great together too. Thanks from dropping by Eric and please come back again!
Hi!
I was wondering, what are your thoughts on replacing the milk with coffee or espresso?
P.S
This looks amazeballs!
I think that sounds incredible! Why didn’t I think of that?? Do it!
Hi again!
I just made this…espresso instead of milk, greek yogurt instead of sour cream (all i had), no cayenne (my daughter is a wuss), and it’s awesome. It’s like dark chocolate corn bread or mocha cornbread, not too sweet, it’s just right. Thanks for the recipe!
Yay!! I’m totally sharing your tips on my community FB page which will give me another good reason to share the recipe! Thanks so much for letting me know how it turned out!
My pleasure! Actually i forgot that i use 2/3 a cup of sugar per the original recipe as I omitted the cayenne. It still was not sweet and i think it would be excellent with cayenne.
I printed the recipe and have it in the oven. Is there supposed to be sugar in it? None in the list of ingredients
Hi Suzanne! Nope, no sugar at all – it’s still a little sweet but it’s not supposed to be very sweet at all –add some fruit and or whipped cream for any sweetness you need. Hope you enjoy it! My daughter says this is her very favorite instead of having cake!