Chocolate “Bread”

The first time I visited Oaxaca City, I was wandering from the Presidente Hotel (now the Camino Real) toward the big Zócalo without really knowing where I was going when I found Evangelina Garcia sitting on a stoop selling small loaves of this pan de chocolate baked in the oval sardine cans called portolas. I stopped to buy one and it was so good I asked for the recipe. The following version is close to hers but not identical. Evangelina used the inimitable Mexican crema, a de