Dark Chocolate Granita with Poached Brambles

Name: Dark Chocolate Granita with Poached Brambles
Yield: Serves 10-12
Ingredients: 60 g (2 oz) fine dark (bittersweet) chocolate (63% cocoa solids), chopped; 60 g (2 oz) fine dark (bittersweet) chocolate (63% cocoa solids), chopped; 200 g (7 oz/scant 1 cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 200 ml (7 fl oz/generous ¾ cup) water; 250 g (9 oz) brambles (or blackberries); 250 g (9 oz) brambles (or blackberries); 500 ml (16 fl oz/2 cups) water; ½ vanilla pod (bean), split lengthways; 100 g (3½ oz/scant ½ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 35 g (1¼ oz/generous ¼ cup) cocoa powder, sifted; ½ vanilla pod (bean), split lengthways

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Couture Chocolate

By William Curley

Published 2011

About

In our dessert bar we serve this as a pre-dessert. It’s lovely and refreshing and great for cleansing the palate.

Ingredients

500 ml (16 fl oz/2 cups) water
100

Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

To make the poached brambles:

Put the water and sugar in a saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the split vanilla pod (bean) into the saucepan and drop in the empty pod, too. Bring to the boil and then add the brambles. Take off the heat and leave to cool (the residual heat will cook the brambles).