Chocolate Filling I

Name: Chocolate Filling I
Cuisine: Hungary
Ingredients: 6 ounces sweet butter, softened; ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar; 3 ounces semisweet chocolate; 2-inch piece of vanilla bean; 3 tablespoons prepared strong espresso coffee, or 3 level teaspoons instant coffee powder mixed with 3 tablespoons water; 1 egg

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cuisine of Hungary

By George Lang

Published 1982

About

Ingredients

2-inch piece of vanilla bean
¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
6

Europe
Hungary
Dessert
Vegetarian
Eastern Europe
Gluten-free

Method

Split the vanilla bean and scrape out the insides into the sugar.
Mix sugar with butter, prepared coffee and the whole egg. Beat into a creamy mixture.
Soften the chocolate in the top part of a double boiler over hot water, or in a low oven, and mix into the filling.
Cool the filling in the refrigerator for 15 minutes before using it.