Creme au Chocolat
- Total Time
- 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 2cups whole or skim milk
- 1tablespoon instant coffee
- 1whole egg plus 2 egg yolks
- ¼cup sugar
- 2tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 7ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into a few pieces
- 1ounce unsweetened (bitter) chocolate
Preparation
- Step 1
Bring the milk and instant coffee to a boil in a saucepan.
- Step 2
Meanwhile, place the egg, egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and mix well. Add the flour and mix it in well.
- Step 3
Whisk about 1 cup of the hot milk and coffee into the egg mixture in the bowl and combine well. Then, pour the contents of the bowl into the saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly with a whisk.
- Step 4
Transfer the hot mixture to a bowl, add the chocolate pieces, and mix every 2 or 3 minutes, until the chocolate has melted and is mixed in well. Cool. Serve with cookies, if desired.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Follow-up: After chilling, this pudding turns unctuous, with a toffee-like texture paired with high-grade chocolate flavor. Wow. I don't think we'll be eating this warm again. Use that good chocolate you've been reserving-- it will need no adornment!
A good, reliable, custardy chocolate pudding with that "brin de Pépin." Use either a hand mixer or elbow grease and a whisk to really marry those ingredients. I chopped the chocolate quite a bit, and ended up using just 1/2 tbsp espresso powder and an extra 1/8 cup sugar to suit my family. The extra sugar blended well into the warm mixture, which was not grainy --phew!
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