Chocolate Pots de Creme

Name: Chocolate Pots de Creme
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 85 grams bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 946 milliliters heavy cream; 0 Tbsps freshly grated orange rind; 0 Tbsps salt; 118 milliliters sugar; 6 yolks

Chocolate Pots de Creme might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 6g of protein, 57g of fat, and a total of 615 calories. This recipe serves 8. If you have yolks, heavy cream, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Place the chopped chocolate in a bowl.

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Chocolate

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Bowl

Heat the cream and the salt until scalded, then pour over the chocolate to melt it.

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Chocolate

Cream

Salt

Whisk the yolks with 1/2 cup of the sugar. Temper the yolk mixture with the hot chocolate mixture then place on the stove over medium heat to thicken slightly, until it coats the back of a wooden spoon.

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Hot Chocolate

Sugar

Egg Yolk

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Wooden Spoon

Stove

Whisk

Pour mixture into ramekins and bake in a water bath at 300 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes until mostly set but a little jiggly in the center. Chill covered.

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Water

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Oven

Ramekin

To serve, whip the cream with the remaining 1/2 tablespoon sugar and orange rind. Dollop onto the pots de creme.

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Orange Zest

Cream

Sugar

Alternate

Garnish: If you have vanilla beans lying around the house that have already been used, here's a great way to recycle them.

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Vanilla Bean

Cut split vanilla beans into 3-inch sections.

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Vanilla Bean

Place on a sheet pan in a preheated 300-degree oven and bake until dried. Keep in an airtight container. To garnish the pots de creme, lay the dried vanilla beans across the whipped cream.

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Vanilla Bean

Whipped Cream