• tal@olio.cafe
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      19 hours ago

      I remember the first time I tried jalepeno fudge chocolate cake. I guess it’s not necessarily that oddball — and if you go back to how the Aztecs drank their chocolate, doing so with spices was a thing — but I remember being really surprised that mixing sweet with something that I normally thought of as savory would work so well.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        6 hours ago

        When I was kid, my parents came back from a party, and my mom told me about the spicy chocolate brownies they had. She made them, and I fell in love with spicy chocolate.

        I used to own an ice cream shop, and we had two spicy ice creams - Mayan Chocolate (Chocolate, Cinnamon, Cayenne), and Honey Cinnamon En Fuego (Honey, Cinnamon, Cayenne). Both were extremely popular. Many told me that it was literally addicting. If they went a week without it, they’d start getting cravings for it.

        I once made the En Fuego with Ghost Pepper powder, and got on a couple of local news programs with it. It was insanely hot, nobody finished it.