Blackcurrant and Almond Chocolate Flan

Name: Blackcurrant and Almond Chocolate Flan
Ingredients: ½–¾ lb fresh uncooked blackcurrants, sprinkled with caster sugar (225–350 g); 1½ oz flaked almonds (40 g); ¼–½ lb redcurrant jelly (110–225 g); 6 oz chocolate cake mixture (175 g)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

This is a flan which you can make in summer with fresh blackcurrants using the easy chocolate cake recipe – if is easy to make and the sharp taste of the blackcurrants is wonderful combined with the chocolate. It is a luxurious and mouthwatering looking pudding.

Ingredients

6 oz chocolate cake mixture (175 g)
1½ oz

Dessert
Pie
Summer
Vegetarian

Method

Make up the cake mixture and spread into a buttered 9–10 in (23–25.5 cm) flan dish (the china fluted ones are good for this). On top of the cake mixture arrange half the almonds, then the blackcurrants (sp