Hot Chocolate Fondant

These are wonderful chocolate soufflé look-alikes with a difference. I am grateful to Roz Denny, food writer, television personality and Gordon Ramsay’s recipe ‘mum’. If you are lucky enough to eat at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, you might find this fondant on the menu. The second time I tried this recipe I slightly overcooked the syrup for the meringue and, rather than the disastrous consequences I anticipated, it provided flecks of caramelised sugar which co