Chocolate fondant

Name: Chocolate fondant
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 9
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 50 grams melted butter, for brushing; 200 grams good-quality dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces; 200 grams butter, in small pieces; 200 grams golden caster sugar; 4 eggs and 4 yolks; 200 grams plain flour; 1 serving Caramel sauce (see Goes well with) and vanilla ice cream or orange sorbet, to serve

If you have roughly 1 hour to spend in the kitchen, Chocolate fondant might be a spectacular lacto ovo vegetarian recipe to try. This recipe makes 9 servings with 528 calories, 6g of protein, and 34g of fat each. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Plenty of people really liked this side dish. A mixture of orange sorbet, eggs and yolks, flour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Chocolate Rolled Fondant, White Chocolate-Marshmallow Rolled Fondant, and Orange-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes with Fondant.

Instructions

First get your moulds ready. Using upward strokes, heavily brush melted butter (use 50g in total) all over the inside of the pudding mould.

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Butter

Place the mould in the fridge or freezer.

Brush more melted butter over the chilled butter, then add a good spoonful of cocoa powder into the mould. Tip the mould so the powder completely coats the butter. Tap any excess cocoa back into the jar, then repeat with the next mould.

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Cocoa Powder

Butter

Place a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then slowly melt 200g good-quality dark chocolate and 200g butter, both chopped into small pieces, together.

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Dark Chocolate

Butter

Water

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove the bowl from the heat and stir until smooth. Leave to cool for about 10 mins.

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Bowl

In a separate bowl whisk 4 eggs and 4 egg yolks together with 200g golden caster sugar until thick and pale and the whisk leaves a trail; use an electric whisk if you want. Sift 200g plain flour into the eggs, then beat together.

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Golden Caster Sugar

All Purpose Flour

Egg Yolk

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Pour the melted chocolate into the egg mixture in thirds, beating well between each addition, until all the chocolate is added and the mixture is completely combined to a loose cake batter.

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Chocolate

Egg

Tip the fondant batter into a jug, then evenly divide between the moulds. The fondants can now be frozen for up to a month and cooked from frozen. Chill for at least 20 mins or up to the night before. To bake from frozen, simply carry on as stated, adding 5 mins more to the cooking time.

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Fondant Icing

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Oven

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas

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Oven

Place the fondants on a baking tray, then cook for 10-12 mins until the tops have formed a crust and they are starting to come away from the sides of their moulds.

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Crust

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Baking Pan

Remove from the oven, then leave to sit for 1 min before turning out.

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Oven

Loosen the fondants by moving the tops very gently so they come away from the sides, easing them out of the moulds. Tip each fondant slightly onto your hand so you know it has come away, then tip back into the mould ready to plate up.

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Fondant Icing

Starting from the middle of each plate, squeeze a spiral of caramel sauce do all the plates you need before you go on to the next stage.

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Caramel Sauce