Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The chocolate cake "à tuer sa mère"




Ingredients:
200 gr dark chocolate
200 gr sugar (or less)
200 gr butter (salted is a bit better)
2 Tbs flour
5 eggs


Instructions:
Melt chocolate and butter in a "bain-marie".
While the mixture is melted and onctuous, add a pinch of black pepper, ginger and cinamon.
Add the sugar and stir well.
Add the eggs, one by one, and stir well in between. Each egg should be well incorporated in before you add the other one.
Add the flour.
Stir to get a dough very bright and smooth.

Pour everything in a cake pan.
Bake it in the oven at 180 oC for 20 min.

When cooked, it doesn't seem to be but it's ok, don't panic !
You just need to leave it aside cool down a bit.

You can sprinkle it with icing sugar before serving.

Voilà.

Dégustation:
This cake is successful ! When you bring it out from the oven, it smells so go that the only idea that comes to your mind is to eat it, straight away. But you shouldn't ... or maybe yes, it's up to you !
Once you put a piece in your mouth, you just need to let it melt in your palate. It's round, savory, you can hear purring inside you and you just feel good.
Wanna try ?

Monday, May 18, 2009

Chocolate custard





These chocolate custards are really easy to make and are better to eat when cold. They taste like old fashion chocolate cream.

Ingredients

500 ml milk
20 gr cornflour (or 2 tbs)
5 tbs bitter cocoa
2 tbs sugar
6 big chocolate squares
1 teaspoon orange bossom water


Proceeding
Heat 400 ml of milk with the chocolate squares. Bring to boil.
Meanwhile. combine 100 ml milk with cornflour, cocoa and sugar. Stir well.
Pour down in the saucepan with the boiled chocolate milk and whip very well until the mixture thicken.
Add "fleur d'oranger", a pinch of salt and pepper.




Fill ramekins with the custard, cover surface of custard with plastic wrap. Cool to fridge temperature.

Wait for at least an hour. They need to be very cold ! If you can't wait, put them in the freezer .. maybe you've just done that !?!....