Spatula Diaries by Maggie Heyn Richardson – Hot chocolate!

Cinco de Mayo is a great excuse to push the dessert course in a spicy direction, nodding to the Mexican culinary tradition of infusing chocolate with both cinnamon and chiles. There are all sorts of easy ways to accomplish this for the week’s festivities: Take your favorite chocolate bread pudding recipe, double the cinnamon and add a half-teaspoon of dried chile powder. Read more…