Choc-peanut fondants with chocolate soil & cherries

Name: Choc-peanut fondants with chocolate soil & cherries
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 50 grams butter, softened, plus extra melted butter for greasing; 85 grams crunchy peanut butter; 175 grams golden caster sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 4 larges eggs; 85 grams plain flour; 300 grams dark chocolate, broken into chunks and melted; 1 jar big cherry compote; 6 scoops vanilla ice cream, to serve; 6 cherries with stalks, to serve; 1 bought chocolate loaf cake (un-iced), about 250g

Choc-peanut fondants with chocolate soil & cherries takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes from beginning to end. One portion of this dish contains around 16g of protein, 46g of fat, and a total of 803 calories. This recipe serves 6. It works well as a main course. Head to the store and pick up butter, crunchy peanut butter, big jar cherry compote, and a few other things to make it today. Flourless Chocolate Fondants, Chocolate pecan fondants, and Espresso And Chocolate Fondants are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Make the soil first.

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas

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Oven

Thinly slice the chocolate cake and lay on baking trays lined with baking parchment.

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Chocolate

Bake for 30 mins, turning the slices halfway, until crisp to the touch. Put in a food processor and whizz to crunchy crumbs. Will keep well for up to a week in an airtight tin.

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Food Processor

Oven

Make the fondants by brushing 6 dariole moulds well with melted butter. Chill for 1 min, then brush again. Put a spoon of cocoa powder in one and shake about so the whole inside is coated, then tip out the rest into the next and tap the bottom of the dariole to get out any excess. Repeat with all the darioles.

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Cocoa Powder

Butter

Shake

Beat together the softened butter, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla to cream them, then beat in the eggs, followed by the flour. Stir in the melted chocolate and divide between the darioles. Chill for up to 24 hrs.

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Peanut Butter

Chocolate

Vanilla

Butter

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

To serve, heat oven to 200C/180C fan/ gas

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Oven

Bake the fondants for 10-12 mins the top will be set, but you should feel a soft middle when you prod it.

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Oven

Add a small pile of soil to each plate and top with a cherry or put the soil in a mini bucket or flowerpot.

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Cherries

Add a spoon of cherry compote to each plate and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Finally, carefully turn each chocolate fondant out onto the plate they should come out easily.

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Vanilla Ice Cream