Chocolate Egg Snowball

Appears in
Two Fat Ladies: Full Throttle

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

  • About

This is a variation on what I call Oafs á la Neigh. I once had a dearly loved employer who was addicted to chocolate. ‘It’s just like your gin, dear,’ she would say as she sent me to the village shop at midnight. I spent a lot of time adapting recipes to include chocolate!

Ingredients

  • 115g/4oz plain chocolate
  • 6 eggs, separated
  • 30

Method

Melt the chocolate over hot water. Beat the egg whites until very stiff. Add the 30ml/2 tbsp caster sugar and whisk again until stiff and the sugar is dissolved. Bring the milk to a simmering point in a