Just made my first chocolate soufflé. It's a little thicker than a soufflé, actually. More like a light and fluffy ganache, if that's possible. A thick mousse? A fudgey cake. All I have is the French name for it, which is "fondant au chocolate" so that doesn't help. I will post a picture when my camera battery is finished recharging.
Ingredients:
2 chocolate bars of deep, intense dark chocolate
5 eggs
1 cup of sugar
2 sticks of sweet cream butter, softened
1 tbsp dark rich coffee
1 heaping tbsp flour
Directions:
1) Melt chocolate bars in a double-boiler over barely-simmering water. Add the coffee.
2) Melt and stir in the butter
3) Stir in the sugar
4) Stir in the eggs, one at a time
5) Stir in the flour.
6) Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes (I baked it about 22). The middle will be wiggly.
Gorgeous.
The instructions say to chill it overnight, but I couldn't wait. Based on the flavor tonight, I would say that chilling it will make it out of this world chocolatety.
Cool!!
So. In January of 2009 I won an ice cream maker at Dad's hunting club game dinner. I've never used it and it's spent quite a bit of time riding around in my car. It actually made it into this kitchen. I just pulled it out, washed the mixer tub and put it into the freezer. I intend to make coffee ice cream tomorrow.
