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chocolate cakes with chili (South America)

chocolate cakes with chilli

great lover of chocolate I am, know as soon as I saw a recipe for chocolate chip cookies with chili immediately decided to try it out, cookies came out delicious, but maybe a little at the beginning of the merge history of chocolate with chili

and Chili Chocolate is one of the oldest connections flavors.
Today in Europe back in fashion do not, which already started in the days of the Mayans. Central America has an ideal climate for the cultivation of cocoa and chili. These were the two plants, which relied mostly Mayan cuisine, and later the Aztecs. Chili today, Mexico is considered a national condiment. Mexicans identify with it and add to almost everything.

Aztecs fond of chili to the extent that the fair could be found as many as 20 species of this plant. Treat them on par with sex. In the cruel ceremony in honor of the gods bloody priests demanded from the faithful sexual abstinence and do not eat chili peppers.

Cocoa was also an important crop in their kitchen. Mayans would put cocoa into special dishes placed in the graves of their loved ones. Cacao beans were treated on a par with the money, often paid them for work. During the wedding ceremony
Maya had the custom of giving each other by a pair of five young cocoa beans. They served the function of today's wedding rings.
most popular drink fluid was prepared from crushed cacao beans.

And here begins an affair of chocolate with chili.

Aztecs to the cocoa beverage add commonly chili, it happened that besides They added more honey and corn. Such a beverage probably not taste to us today, just as it does not taste the first Spaniards who came to Central America. Perhaps in all that you do not try, though the Aztecs did not told them about his great acting - he was considered a powerful aphrodisiac. The confirmation of this was a special feast associated with the cultivation of cocoa - the sacred tree. It lasted for thirteen days. By this time everyone behaved abstinence, and the fourteenth day orgy took place - of course just before it all drank cocoa with chili, which an added them to otherworldly forces.

When Christopher Columbus in the sixteenth century brought cocoa to Europe, it quickly became popular. The drink prepared similarly to that known in the Aztec, but the chili was replaced with a star anise, pepper or cinnamon and sugar added to it.
In this modified form of cocoa conquered the palates of Europeans, and is known today.

It is we - the Europeans, we separated long ago from the chilli chocolate. Today we look at this relationship by turning his nose, something is not right for us ...
suggest, however, try at least once this connection. There is a lot of the Mexican meat with chocolate sauce and chili and the famous Aztec cocoa to drink.

Source: http://www.we-dwoje.pl/

chili chocolate cookies.

50g butter 100g flour


40g sugar 1 egg yolk
1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder, baking soda and ground cinnamon
1-2 teaspoons minced 2 tablespoons chili
cream (preferably 30%)

1 teaspoon cocoa

2 teaspoons honey or sugar syrup glaze

50 g chocolate 1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon cream (preferably 30%, but when someone can be no milk)

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, roll the shaft and odkrawac small batches from which to form walnut-sized balls Italian, put on a baking sheet lined out with parchment and lightly flatten.
Bake 8 - 10 minutes at 180 degrees C, remove from oven, place to cool.

Ingredients for topping dissolve in water or a microwave, mix and pour glaze gotowa.Smarowac cakes cooled down, it was additionally poured chili grind them.

Bon Appetit.