A dash of serendipity?

December 21, 2008 6:32PM | Filed Under Food |
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When I was making my Christmas cake this year, I decided to be more adventurous with the spices and reached for the Chinese Five Spice. What I actually picked up and poured into the dry ingredients was Hot Chilli pepper. Ahem. I managed to scoop most of the chilli out but some remained inextricably mixed. I wonder how the cake will taste…

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  1. I’m sure it will be fine! There’s so many other things in Christmas cake that it’s bound to blend in. Besides, have you ever had chilli chocolate tim tams? Yum yum.

    Comment by Amy — December 22, 2008 12:40 AM#

  2. You may be onto something good. My killer gingerbread has cayenne as an ingredient.

    Comment by Mary Ann Littlejohn — December 22, 2008 4:13 AM#

  3. Well, I like chile with chocolate - is that in the mix. This just doesn’t seem like a Brenda thing - grabbing the wrong ingredient, that is!

    Comment by Gerrie — December 22, 2008 4:34 AM#

  4. you just reminded me of my friend’s story, she was making an apple strudel and added what she thought was chopped nuts, instead it was dried garlic, her father was the only one loyal enough to eat a slice.

    Comment by Erica — December 22, 2008 9:44 AM#

  5. I’ve had chocolate chilli cake before and you can’t actually taste the chilli, just like Coffee can be in chocolate cake and you normally can’t taste that either… I’ve also had chilli in a hot chocolate… so here’s hopeing you’ll be pleasantly surprised :)

    Comment by Chantel — December 22, 2008 1:38 PM#

  6. brenda,

    Wow! That’s something to look forward too, who knows you may like it better, they have chilli flavoured chocolate now.

    Comment by Judy — December 22, 2008 2:20 PM#

  7. Ooh, I came SO close to putting cumin in some ginger spice cookies the other day instead of cinnamon, but caught myself just in time. Hope your cake turns out!

    Comment by Diane — December 24, 2008 11:22 AM#

  8. So…..how was the cake???

    Comment by Grace — December 29, 2008 10:36 AM#

  9. There’s hardly any left so it must be OK!

    Comment by Brenda — December 29, 2008 11:17 AM#

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