Hot Chocolate Soufflé

Name: Hot Chocolate Soufflé
Ingredients: 1 tbsp brandy or rum; 25g/1oz butter; 85g/3oz good quality dark chocolate; 150ml/¼ pint milk; 25g/1oz plain flour; 4 eggs, separated; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 70g/2½ oz caster sugar

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

About

Nobody can resist chocolate soufflé unless they’re allergic. If you wish you can make just one large soufflé in which case it would take about 30 minutes to cook.

Ingredients

85g/3oz good quality dark chocolate
1 tbsp brandy or r

Dessert
Vegetarian
Chocolate

Method

Break up the chocolate and put in a bowl with the brandy or rum. Put the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and allow to melt slowly.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour and cook over a low heat for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Warm the milk in another saucepan, melt the caster sugar in it and then blend in to the flour and butter. Continue to cook slowly, st