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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Chocolate Marquise ( pronounced, mär-ˈkēz)

For Father's Day I made my Dad three chocolate desserts. This one is my favorite. It is soft and cream, a gentle chocolate flavor and easy to make. Also it would be good with coffee flavor I think but as I have only made it two times I have not tried it that way. And how, here is the recipe.......


7 oz dark/milk chocolate (I used milk both times)
generous 1/3 cup butter
3 egg yolks
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp (or more :) vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup heavy cream

1: Break the chocolate into pieces (I used chocolate chips) . Place the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of gently simmering water and stir until melted and well combined. Remove from the heat and let cool.


2: Place the egg yolk in a mixing bowl with sugar and whisk until pale and fluffy. Using an electric whisk running on low speed, slowly whisk in the cool chocolate mixture. Stir in the vanilla extract.


3: Whip the cream until just holding its shape. Fold into the chocolate mixture. Spoon into 6 custard pots (as you see in the picture, you do not have to do that), or individual metal molds. Chill the desserts for at least 2 hours.


4: To serve, turn out the desserts onto individual serving dishes. If you have difficulty turning them out, dip the pots or molds into a bowl of warm water for a few seconds (like two.. more it is WAY to soft) to help the marquise to slid out. Serve with chocolate-dipped fruit and dust with cocoa. Or server in dish, and not have any side.


Samantha