Apricot & Chocolate Fool

Name: Apricot & Chocolate Fool
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 10 apricots, halved and stone removed; 100 grams dark chocolate; 150 milliliters double cream; 6 Tbsps icing sugar; 2 juice from lemon; 59 milliliters water; 300 milliliters whipping cream; 1 Tbsp Cointreau, optional

Apricot & Chocolate Fool is a gluten free and vegetarian side dish. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 6g of protein, 53g of fat, and a total of 630 calories. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have water, cointreau, chocolate, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 20 minutes.

Instructions

Place the apricots, sugar, lemon juice, lemon peel and water in a pot. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer gently for 10 minutes until the apricots are soft. Set aside to cool a little before whizzing up in a food processor.

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Lemon Juice

Lemon Peel

Apricot

Sugar

Water

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Food Processor

Pot

In another pot over a low to medium heat, heat the double cream and break the chocolate into it. Stir the chocolate until it has melted, then remove form the heat and add the cointreau if you are using it. You could add orange juice instead or leave it plain.

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Double Cream

Orange Juice

Chocolate

Cointreau

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Pot

Pour the melted chocolate into 4 bowls or glasses and pop into the fridge.

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Chocolate

Pop

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Bowl

Whisk the whipping cream until firm. If you like, you may add a little icing sugar, to sweeten it up, but as you are adding some apricot puree, you really don't need to.

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Whipping Cream