Chocolate Chartreuse Bavarian Cream

Bavaroise Chocolat Chartreuse

Preparation info
  • Yield

    8 to 12

    servings.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

  • About

In my personal passion for green Chartreuse, I have put it in almost any dessert I could. This Bavarian cream dessert met with great success on one of my American tours. Bavarians in the Savoie repertory of desserts would be classified as tourist fare. I use very little gelatin and serve the dessert in champagne cups rather than molding it stiffly in the old-fashioned way. If you prefer to unmold it, use a whole envelope of gelatin. The chocolate bits should be no smaller than ⅙ inch, or el