Chocolate Bible

[lathany]

The last few days has seen us try a couple more recipes from My Chocolate Bible.

Mocha Velvet Cream Pots
Unlike our usual chocolate pots, these are oven-baked which means hard on top going to softer underneath. Despite the different approach, they taste remarkably similar to chocolate pots; only, unsurprisingly, with a coffee-chocolate taste. They looked like their picture but then, hey, can far can you go wrong with a dark chocolatey substance in a pot?! We halved the quantities suggested (for eight) and made four, two for Sunday and two for Monday. We'll definitely do them again, although they are a slightly bigger faff than normal chocolate pots.

Chocolate Pavlova with Passion Fruit Cream
The thing about chocolate-coffee Mocha Velvet Cream pots, is that they use egg yolks but not egg whites. Meaning that I was drawn to this little recipe on the other side of the page. The pavlova, strictly speaking, isn't because it contains too much cocoa powder and is supposed to be eaten in the hot and chewy state. However it worked out much better than I had dared hope (having a hand-whisk I was expecting the meringue to be a disaster). And adding double cream, greek yogurt and chocolate will improve pretty much any dessert. The passion fruit, fortunately, had a strong enough flavour to stop the whole thing tasting of chocolate cream and sugar. This one looked rather lighter-coloured than it's picture, but was still pretty close. Again, we thought this was a recipe to repeat.

Comments

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

This is news both urgent and important. Thank you!

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone else out there fully appreciates chocolate.

[triskellian]

Ooh, can I have your usual chocolate pot recipe? I have one that's also oven-cooked, and a less-faff version is tempting...

[lathany.livejournal.com]

You can, but I suspect you've already got it!

It's the one from Jamie Oliver's The Return of the Naked Chef. Only we tend to use half normal dark chocolate and half seventy per cent to make them slightly sweeter (our preferred liqueurs are Grand Marnier and Kalhua).

If you don't have the book, let me know and I'll email the recipe to you.

[triskellian]

Ooh, you're right, I do already have it. And d'you know what the funny thing is? I made hot chocolate last night using approximately that method.

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Darn you. Here's me about to wax lyrical about how great my GI diet is and you post this. Curses.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

You can still wax lyrical. I've done my bit for chocolate promotion this week!

[http://users.livejournal.com/elle_/]

Chocolate pavlova sounds like bliss... just thinking about it has brightened my morning no end ;)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

:-)