If you do not have a weak spot for incredibly rich chocolate, this recipe is not for you. Best you go and eat a Milky Way or some other frivolous candy bar that won’t ruin your appetite, as this dessert certainly will. It will obliterate it to kingdom come and then burn whatever’s left and write ‘destroyed’ with the ashes. These chocolate pots are incredible. Even I found myself saying, “we should have shared one”… This recipes yields 6 pots of awesomeness.
Ingredients
- 4 cardamon pods
100ml milk
200g dark chocolate, broken up (I used 70%, anything less is for babies)
2 eggs, separated
1 cup thickened cream
2 tablespoons caster sugar
Method
- Remove cardamon seeds from pods and crush. In a small saucepan, boil the milk and seeds and then leave to infuse for around 10 minutes.
- Melt chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring occasionally, until smooth.
- Beat egg yolks until thickened and then pour the yolk and the strained milk (to remove seeds) into the chocolate.
- Whip cream until soft peaks form (if you want a work out, whip by hand like I did) and then fold into the chocolate mixture.
- Beat egg whites with an electric beater until stiff peaks form and then add the sugar and beat again briefly.
- Fold a little of the egg white mixture into the chocolate mixture to slacken it, and then fold in the remainder. Continue to fold until there are no streaks, but be gentle so as not to bash all of the air out.
- Transfer to 6 small glasses or ramekins, cover with cling film and chill until set.
- Death by chocolate.
