Chocolate lime fondants

Name: Chocolate lime fondants
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 3 large free-range eggs; 3 large free-range egg yolks; finely grated zest of 3 unwaxed limes; 50 g caster sugar; 25 g self-raising flour; icing sugar, for dusting; crème fraîche, to serve; 175 g dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids); 175 g dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids); 150 g butter, cut into small cubes, plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Good Table

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

About

There are a lot of fondant puddings around - which is a good thing - but I wanted mine to be slightly different. I was thinking about my favourite sweets as a child, which were the lime éclairs, those green ones with the little chocolate centre. This is my explanation for putting lime in my fondants.

Ingredients

175 g dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids)
150 g butter, cut into small cubes, plus extra for greasing

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Butter six 175ml metal dariole moulds and line each base with a small disc of baking paper. Break the chocolate into pieces and put in a heatproof basin with the butter. Place over a pan of gently simmering water until melted, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 10 minutes.

Use an electric whisk to whisk the whole eggs, egg yolks, lime zest and caster sugar