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Pot De Crème’s is on my list of top ten favorite desserts.
I posted the following recipe on my first blog almost 8 years ago and I still love it. It seems like Pot De Crème’s have come and gone as far as food trends go. One day they were all over and now you hardly see them and they are really worth the effort when finished off properly. I can still remember when I made these particular ones in the photo. They were so good I forgot to take a proper photo. That will have to wait until next time. I hope I manage to get one then!
This version is topped off with an orange Sabayon. Both textures are soft and creamy, but the subtle difference makes it so much more decadent.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
French
Keyword
chocolate dessert, Chocolate Grand Marnier Pot De Crème, Chocolate pot, Pot de cream
Servings8people
Authoradmin
Ingredients
Pot De Crème
3cupsfull cream milk
5mlVanilla
3eggs
3egg yolks
3tspsugar
30mlcastor sugar
2tbspgrated 100% cocoa
50gmilk chocolate
Sabayon
4egg yolks
Rind of one orange
60mlGrand Marnier
60gsugar
Instructions
For the Pot De Crème
Preheat your oven to 150 degrees. Put eight cups or ramekins into a baking tray that will hold water half way up your containers.
Bring the milk to a simmer, remove from heat and add the chocolate, cocoa and vanilla. Stir to let the chocolate and cocoa melt into the milk evenly. Mix the eggs, yolks and sugar with a fork or whisk, but do not allow it to get foamy. Add a little milk and stir to prevent the eggs cooking. Stir in the rest of the milk. Pass the mixture through a sieve and carefully pour them into eight cups or ramekins.
Put the baking tray into the oven and pour in enough water to fill the tray halfway up your containers. Cover with a sheet of baking paper and bake until just set. Take the chocolate pots out of the water immediately and chill.
For the Sabayon:
Beat yolks and sugar in a double boiler until your whisk leaves ribbons of the mixture trailing down. Add the orange rind and Grand Marnier and stir until mixture is thick and foamy.
Take the bowl off the heat and whisk until cold.
To serve, spoon a dollop of the Sabayon over each ramekin and dust with cocoa.
For more chocolate desserts have a look at my Chocolate Round-Up. Also if you like this recipe or Pot De Crème’s in general, check out this Crème brûlée recipe.
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Ciabatta is also not something you would normally consider to make at home. I spent years making it in professional kitchens with huge stand mixers. The dough needs a good, fast beating which these machines provide with no problems. I tried making a single batch at home one off day. It didn’t work out at all. Fast forward several years and the simple revelation came to me. Take the recipe down even further. And it worked. Straight back to food heaven.
Ciabatta is a high hydration bread. This means that the percentage ratio of liquid to flour is higher than other dough. It can be challenging to work with at first, but the results are truly satisfying. I find that a beginner can make a truly wonderful Ciabatta by simply following the instructions.
This recipe does not use a biga, so you will be pulling the bread from the oven within hours of starting. At the same time, you cannot compare the taste to Ciabatta made with a biga. You can also allow the dough to proof in the fridge overnight to develop a bigger flavor.
Perfectly crusty Ciabatta that is great for novice bakers and bakers who don't have a biga.
Course
bread
Cuisine
Italian
Keyword
bread, Ciabatta, home-made bread, Italian bread
Prep Time2hours
Cook Time25minutes
Total Time2hours25minutes
Servings2loaves
Authoradmin
Ingredients
500gramcake flour
10gramsugar
10gramsalt
10gramsachet yeast
500mlLuke-warm water
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Celcius. Place an empty tray on the lower level.
Mix all the ingredients together in the mixing bowl of your stand mixer. Mix with paddle on a low speed until combined. Increase speed to high and run until the dough is coming away from the sides of the bowl and looks silky. A good way to check is if you pull the dough away from the paddle attachment and it stretches out in a very thin sheet without tearing. This will take a few minutes. Be sure not to walk away from your mixer. You will need to hold it. Wrap the mixing bowl with cling wrap and leave to proof until dough looks bubbly and has at least doubled in size. You can check to see if the gluten structure has formed appropriately. It will look stringy.
Prepare baking trays with nonstick spray and flour.
Take dough out of mixing bowl onto a heavily floured surface. Sprinkle with flour and fold dough over and into itself into a sausage. I like to twist the dough as I fold. I find that a thinner loaf produces larger pockets.
Cut into 2 equal parts and stretch out onto a prepared tray.
Put in oven and quickly pour a 1/2 cup of water onto the bottom tray. Close the oven to keep the steam inside. Turn down the temperature to 230 degrees Celcius. Bake for 20 minutes and then turn the loaves over and bake for another 5 minutes until fully cooked. You can check if they are done by tapping on the bottom of the bread. It should sound hollow. If it doesn't, simply put it back in the oven. Leave to cool completely before slicing. (If you can wait that long!)
Recipe Notes
You can make bread rolls instead of 2 loaves. Simply divide the dough into 12 pieces instead of 2 loaves and proceed to bake as per recipe.
To learn how to make other bread have a look at the Kitchen Essentials page.
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Keyword
American pancakes, breakfast, chocolate pancakes, pancakes
Prep Time30minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time50minutes
Authoradmin
Ingredients
1cupmilkroom temperature
2tablespoonof melted butter
1egg
1teaspoonof vanilla extract
1cupflour
1/2cupcocoa
1/4cupbrown sugar
2teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonbicarbonate of soda
1/4teaspoonsalt
Instructions
Sift the dry ingredients together at least twice.
Whisk the milk, melted butter and egg together. Combine the wet and dry ingredients carefully, without over-mixing. As with many other recipes that you may have read, the mixture should still be a little lumpy, but without flour pockets.
Leave for at least ten minutes. This will allow the baking powder and bicarbonate of soda to get to work.
Pour tablespoons of batter into a heated pan that you have prepared with non-stick spray.
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