Chocolate Pudding Soufflé

Name: Chocolate Pudding Soufflé
Ingredients: 2 medium eggs; 250 g crème fraîche; 530 g good quality dark chocolate or buttons; 210 g butter; 5 g fresh yeast (or equivalent amount of dried yeast); 100 g jar Griottines or Morello cherries in syrup or alcohol; 55 g strong plain flour, sifted; 65 g caster sugar; 4 egg yolks; a little icing sugar for dusting; ½ Chocolate Sponge recipe baked in a tray; a little caster sugar for dusting; butter for greasing

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ivy

By AA Gill and Mark Hix

Published 1997

About

Griotte cherries are a luxury option in this recipe if you can find them. Use them, if possible, as they give a nice alcoholic kick to the pudding.

Ingredients

butter for greasing
a little caster sugar for dusting
½ Chocolate Sponge recipe baked in a tray

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Lightly butter and dust with caster sugar the inside of 8 x 8 cm stainless-steel rings, or deep egg rings. Cut 8 discs of sponge, ½ cm thick and place them inside the rings on a baking sheet 7.5 cm apa