Sunday, February 19, 2006

Chocolate and Chestnuts

Based on a French recipe, this dense chocolately tart makes a great pudding.

Butter a small cake tin, preferably one with a removable base. Take a 400g tin of purée chestnuts, and warm them gently over a bain-marie. They will be very stiff at room temperature and doing this makes them a bit more pliable. Once they're warm, put them in a bowl and set aside. Now take a 100g bar of 70% dark chocolate and melt in the bain-marie, with 50g of butter and 1-2 teaspoons of natural honey. As the chocolate and butter begin to melt, mix it all together until you have a smooth paste. Now add the paste to the chestnuts, mix again, and pour into the tin.

Leave the tin in the fridge for a minimum of four hours after which it should be a dense fudge-like consistency. Don't be too greedy though - it's very rich!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Cook,

This recipe is just heavenly! We had eaten it all within 3 days.

naughty but nice...

Kim