Here's a great make ahead dessert that will impress your guests with unusual flavour twists. And it incorporates chocolate - say no more!
Tea-infused Chocopot
Ingredients:
2 cups chopped good quality bittersweet chocolate2 ½ cups thickened cream
½ cup milk
1 ½ tsp Dilmah Earl Grey tea
½ cup sugar
6 egg yolks
¼ vanilla bean
1 chocolate-coated honeycomb bar
Method:
1. Pre-heat oven to 150°C.
2. Heat milk in a small saucepan until hot but not boiling. Remove from heat and add the tea. Steep for several minutes until the Earl Grey flavour is developed. Strain most of the tea but leave a tiny amount of residual tea. Set aside.
3. Into a large bowl place chocolate, thickened cream and sugar and simmer over a saucepan of water of water until chocolate is the melted and sugar is dissolved. Blend in the infused milk and egg yolks. Stir.
4. Divide the mixture between 6 small coffee cups (demitasse). Cover each cup in plastic wrap and place in a dish of water so the water is halfway up the sides of the cups. Gently pierce the wrap to prevent sweating.
5. Bake until just set (50 minutes) then refrigerate.
6. Top with crumbled chocolate-coated honeycomb before serving.
Kerry Heaney
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