Sunflowers

Name: Sunflowers
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: Makes 8 or 12
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons rum (optional); 6 navel oranges; 200 g (7 oz) plain or bitter chocolate; 8 tablespoons cold water; 3 eggs, separated; 1½ teaspoons gelatine; caster sugar; 25 g (1 oz) Praline or crushed amaretti biscuits; 65 g (2½ oz) vanilla caster sugar; a pinch of salt; 65 g (2½ oz) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces; cocoa powder for dusting; 125 ml (4 fl oz) whipping cream, whipped; lemon juice

Preparation info

Makes
8 or 12

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1987

About

This dessert is very pretty and tastes very very good. The flowers have chocolate centres and orange slices for petals, providing a lovely contrast of tastes and colours.

Ingredients

1½ teaspoons gelatine
8 tablespoons cold water
3 eggs<

Dessert

Method

Place the gelatine with 2 tablespoons of cold water in a cup and leave it until it becomes spongy, then set the cup in hot water to dissolve the gelatine. Whisk the egg yolks, remaining water and 50 g (