Helen Goh’s Recipe For Valentine’s Chocolate Pots De Creme For Two | The Sweet Spot

These cocoa pots are dark, silken and softly bitter, pinch capable richness to consciousness a small decadent, but not heavy. Make 1 to stock aliases 2 individual ones, depending connected your mood. They tin beryllium made ahead, anyplace from an hr to a afloat time successful advance, and will support happily successful nan fridge. If they’ve been chilled for much than a mates of hours, fto them beryllium astatine room somesthesia for astir 20 minutes earlier serving. They should consciousness cool against nan spoon, but not fridge-cold, which dulls their luxurious texture. A slick of bully oliva lipid and a pinch of flaky brackish is simply a beautiful opposition to nan chocolate’s richness, but you could besides apical them pinch a fewer edible flowers aliases a scattering of grated cocoa and a raspberry aliases two.

Prep 5 min
Cook 50 min
Cool/chill 1 hr 30 min
Serves 2

10g softened butter
125ml double cream
60ml whole milk
1 cinnamon stick
½ tsp instant java powder
75g acheronian cocoa (60-70% cocoa), chopped into mini pieces
1 ample ovum yolk
1 tbsp caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 pinch flaky oversea salt

To serve
Whipped pick aliases creme fraiche
Good oliva oil
1 pinch flaky oversea salt

Brush a 250ml ramekin (for sharing) aliases 2 125ml ramekins pinch nan softened food and put them successful a small, heavy baking crockery aliases barroom tin.

Combine nan cream, milk, cinnamon instrumentality and java powder successful a mini saucepan, past lukewarm mildly complete a debased power until nan substance conscionable originates to steam – don’t fto it boil. Take disconnected nan heat, time off to infuse for astir 10 minutes, past return to a debased power until basking again.

Put nan cocoa successful a mini heatproof bowl. Lift retired and discard nan cinnamon instrumentality from nan basking pick mixture, past move it complete nan cocoa and time off to guidelines for a mates of minutes, truthful nan cocoa softens. Whisk mildly until melted and smooth.

Heat nan oven to 150C (130C fan)/300F/gas 2. In a 2nd bowl, whisk nan ovum yolk, sugar, vanilla and brackish until creamy. Gradually whisk a small of nan lukewarm cocoa substance into nan yolk substance to temper it, past adhd nan remainder of nan chocolate, whisking until soft and glossy.

Strain nan substance done a good sieve into a jug, past move into nan prepared ramekin(s). Put nan baking crockery successful nan oven and move successful capable just-boiled h2o to travel halfway up nan sides of nan ramekins. Bake for 20–22 minutes for 2 mini pots, aliases 25–28 minutes for 1 larger 1 – nan centre should quiver somewhat erstwhile jiggled.

Lift nan ramekin(s) from nan h2o bath and time off to cool astatine room somesthesia for astir 30 minutes. Cover and refrigerate for astatine slightest an hour, aliases up to a time ahead.

To serve, apical pinch softly whipped pick aliases creme fraiche, and decorativeness pinch a fewer drops of oliva lipid and a pinch of flaky salt.