Simple Chocolate Soufflé

Name: Simple Chocolate Soufflé
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: finely grated zest of ½ orange; 20 g caster sugar; whipped cream, to serve; 4 egg yolks, well beaten; 6 egg whites; 50 g soft unsalted butter, to grease the soufflé dishes; caster sugar, to coat the greased dishes; 30 ml cognac or brandy; 120 g bittersweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces; pure icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

French

By Damien Pignolet

Published 2005

About

The simplest and most fragile of soufflés are made very quickly. The following recipe uses egg yolks to bind a chocolate base. I suggest making this for a maximum of 4 people and being ready to enjoy it the moment it comes out of the oven.

Ingredients

50 g soft unsalted butter, to grease the soufflé dishes
caster sugar, to coat the greased dishes
pure icing sugar, for dusting
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Gluten-free

Method

Grease 4 x 240ml-capacity soufflé dishes, coat with sugar and place on a baking tray. Preheat the oven to 190°C and have some icing sugar in a small sieve, ready to dust the soufflés as soon as they are cooked.
Melt the chocolate and the cognac in a bo