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Chocolate Fondant/Pudding

Ingredients for Chocolate Fondant/Pudding serves 6-7

  • 5 whole eggs
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 200g castor sugar
  • 200g flour plain
  • 200g unsalted butter
  • 250g dark chocolate

Method For the Chocolate pudding

  • 1) put the chocolate into a small bowl over a bain marie to melt as we do in our chocolate pudding
  • 2) crack whole eggs in a bowl then add 5 egg yolks to the whole eggs
  • 3) add the sugar to the eggs and whisk well together
  • 4) add the flour to the egg mixture and fold inn
  • 5) add the butter to the chocolate then melt a tiny bit of butter to brush up the ramekins
  • 6) turn the oven on mark between 6 and 7 that is equivalent to 190c to 200c
  • 7) add the melted chocolate and butter to the eggs, sugar and flour mix and mix well
  • 8) fill in the ramekins three fourth and bake in the oven top shelf for 15 minutes take out and serve with vanilla ice cream enjoy!!!!!

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Ultimate Chocolate Tart Recipe: Decadent & Easy

This chocolate tart is literally To Die For! Step-by-step method how to make the perfect chocolate tart. We use a blind baked sweet pastry crust, a mixture of melted dark chocolate, evaporated milk and cream which gives this chocolate tart recipe an incredible taste and texture.

Ingredients (serves 8)

  • 500g dark cocolate, at least 64% cocoa solids
  • 3 eggs
  • 150ml single cream
  • 2x170g evaporated milk
  • 200g Baked-blind sweet short crust pastry
  • Icing sugar to decorate

Equipment

  • Loose-bottom flan ring, 25cm
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 medium bowl (for melting chocolate)
  • Medium pot (for bain marie)
  • Saucepan
  • Spoon
  • Spatula
  • Rolling pin

Method

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
  2. You should have your baked-blind pastry ready to use. Click here for sweet pastry recipe and here for baking blind method.
  3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and put into a china bowl. Set over a pan of boiling water and let it melt slowly on a very low heat. Cover and leave to melt for 5 minutes, then take it off the heat and stir.
  4. Whisk the eggs together in a large bowl.
  5. Pour the cream and evaporated milk into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Pour this onto the eggs and whisk together.
  6. Strain the milk and egg mixture over the chocolate. Transfer the mixture to a bigger bowl and mix well.
  7. Pour this into the blind-baked tart case.
  8. Place the tart in the oven. Shut the door and immediately turn the oven off. Leave the tart in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
  9. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely (about 1 1/2 hours).
  10. Sprinkle some icing sugar and some chocolate curls (optional).
  11. Serve in thin slices.
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Easy Chocolate and Coconut Cake

This recipe outlines the process for making a chocolate coconut cake. Ingredients include butter, cocoa powder, self-raising flour, baking powder, desiccated coconut, caster sugar, eggs, and milk. The method involves preheating the oven, preparing a cake tin, melting butter, combining ingredients, baking for one hour, and cooling the cake on a rack after allowing it to rest.

Ingredients

  • 250 g butter
  • 115g cocoa powder
  • 225g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 90g desiccated coconut
  • 337g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 180ml milk

Equipment

  • Round cake tin 20 cm
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Sieve
  • Wire cooling rack

Other

  • Baking paper

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 160℃ and line the base and sides of a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Melt butter. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder into a large bowl and add the coconut, caster sugar, eggs, milk and melted butter. Mix to combine.
  3. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and place in the oven to bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  4. Allow the cake to cook in the tin for 15 minutes before putting it on a wire cooling rack to cool completely.