Wednesday, January 5, 2011

happy new year fabulous fondant desserts


new year 2011 is not a time for diets. with all the austerity, belt tightening and uncertain economic times ahead, small indulgences are a necessity! keep smiling and make these. aidan likes them hot. i like them cold.


the basic recipe is from this wonderful book by paul simon. after some experimenting, i found that you could flavour them with all the cocoa bean truffle favourites. i flavour with zests and spices before pouring it into tiny metal moulds .


basic recipe

2 eggs

50g brown sugar

1 dessertspoon plain flour

1 dessertspoon cornflour

140g dark chocolate

110g btter

3 dessertspoons whipping cream


preheat the oven to 180 C


grease and dust the moulds with flour


beat the eggs and sugar. seive in the flour and cornflour and continue to beat.


melt the chocolate, butter and cream in a bowl over simmering water.


pour the chocolate cream into the sponge mixture and mix well together.


fill the moulds two thirds full and then add a pinch of orange zest, nutmeg, cinnamon or lemon zest. add another spoon of mixture to seal in the flavour and then pop into the oven for a few minutes! If you are making four big ones they will need abot 7 minutes.


turn them out straight away and eat or wait until the morning and eat with coffee for breakfast nigella style before anyone else is up!

4 comments:

Argaf said...

Yummy, I would think better hot too though.

Anonymous said...

I am still dreaming about the nutmeg ones. em x

Argaf said...

Passed the site of the old 'factory' yesterday and notices a significant construction underway - is that the new facility ?

Sarah Hehir said...

It is! Good to hear from you - and watch that space!