Dark Chocolate and Salted Caramel Pots
Let's face it, eating chocolate makes you feel good. It's a treat, it's luxurious and it brings pleasure. They are rich, but also light and fluffy, meaning if you wanted, you could probably manage to find just enough room for a second. Good job this recipe makes 4-6, depending on the size of your glasses. Go on, treat yourself, you deserve it.
Method
Based on 6 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
Take 6 small tumblers, dessert glasses or ramekins and spoon in 1 heaped tbsp of salted caramel sauce into the bottom of each one. If your caramel is a little cold it may be tricky to flatten into the base of the ramekin. Take a teaspoon, dip it in boiling water and use the back of it to even out the caramel.
Step 2
In a small pan, slowly bring 250ml whipping cream and 100ml milk to a simmer. Break 150g dark chocolate into small pieces.
Step 3
Put 3 tbsp dark muscovado sugar and 3 egg yolks in a medium bowl and whisk them, preferably with an electric whisk if you have one, until pale and light. We call this ribbon stage. You should be able to create a ribbon pattern in the mixture as you pull out the whisk. This process will take about 4-5 minutes.
Step 4
Add 150g broken chocolate in to the pan with the cream and milk and remove from the heat. Allow it to sit for a minute, then stir vigorously until chocolate the has all melted.
Step 5
Pour the hot chocolate cream onto the yolks and sugar and whisk vigorously. Make sure the mixture is well combined and all the same chocolaty colour. Divide the chocolate mixture between the 6 glasses that you filled with salted caramel sauce earlier.
Step 6
Cover and chill for at least an hour before serving.
- Ingredients
- Based on 6 servings
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6 tbsp Salted Caramel Sauce 1x Sainsbury's Salted Caramel Sauce, Taste the Difference 260g -
250ml Whipping Cream 1x Sainsbury's British Whipping Fresh Cream 300ml -
3 tbsp Dark Muscovado Sugar, or any sugar 1x Billington's Dark Muscovado Sugar 500g -
100ml Whole Milk 1x Sainsbury's British Whole Milk 568ml (1 pint) -
3 Egg Yolks 1x Sainsbury's British Free Range Eggs Medium x6 -
150g Dark Chocolate, 70% cocoa or above 2x Lindt Excellence Dark 70% Cocoa Chocolate Bar 100g