How to Bake Chocolate Pots De Crème
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 40 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chocolate Pots De Crème:
- 4 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 cups heavy cream, divided
- ¼ cup cherry jam
- ¼ cup + 1 tsp sugar
Cooking instructions for Chocolate Pots De Crème:
- Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Fill a kettle with water and bring it to a boil over moderate heat.
- Toss the chocolate chunks into a heat-proof bowl and set aside.
- Pour in 1 ½ cups cream in a medium saucepan and stir in ¼ cup sugar until mixed well.
- Heat the mixture over slow flame while whisking it constantly, until the sugar dissolves and tip it over the chocolate chunks.
- Beat them together until the chocolate melts and blends along with the cream to form a smooth, glossy mixture.
- Place the yolks in a separate bowl and beat it thoroughly, while drizzling in small amount of the warmed chocolate blend until they are mixed thoroughly and the mixture is tempered.
- Pour this tempered mixture in a steady stream into the chocolate-cream mixture, while beating it at the same time, until all of it is incorporated into the mixture.
- Arrange four (6 oz) ramekins into a rimmed baking dish and divide the chocolate mixture between them.
- Pour the boiling water from the kettle, into the baking dish, so that it stands midway along the sides of the ramekins and place it in the oven.
- Bake for half an hour or until the surface of the custards set and appears wobbly on when agitated slightly.
- Take the dish out of the oven and arrange them onto a wire rack.
- Let it stand until they cool down completely transfer them into a fridge.
- Let it chill overnight or at least for a couple of hours.
- To serve, place the cherry jam in a bowl and give it a quick whisk to loosen it up/
- Whip rest of the cream in another bowl along with a tsp of sugar until they form firm peaks.
- Fold it into the whisked cherry jam until they are just mixed and few swirls of the jam are still visible.
- Add a dollop of this cherry-cream whip on top of each chocolate custard and serve chilled.
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