Dark Chocolate and Cherry ‘Creme Brulee’

Name: Dark Chocolate and Cherry ‘Creme Brulee’
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 500 g very dark cherries, preferably Morello if available, stoned; finely grated zest of 1 lemon; 200 g real dark chocolate, finely chopped; about 250 g white caster sugar; 500 ml crème fraîche

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

About

Crème brûlée is one of the all-time greats in the pudding repertoire. Sometimes, when faced with a choice of a chocolate pudding or a crème brûlée, it can be an agonizing decision. Here, there is no contest! This version, devised to incorporate chocolate, is also so much easier to make than a classic crème brûlée.

Ingredients

500 g very dark cherries, preferably Morello if available, stoned
finely grated zest of 1 lemon

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Put the stoned cherries into the bottom of 8 small ramekin dishes and sprinkle with the lemon zest.

Bring the cream to the boil and make a ganache with the cream and chocolate as described. Pour the ganache mixture over the cherries and chill for at least 2 hours.

Heat the sugar and 6