Chocolate Creme Brulee
Recipe from Bon Appetit March 1996
| Christmas Tradition |
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This is a recipe that Lew makes at Christmas. It is WONDERFUL. He started making this in 2006. |
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients:
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 2 cups half and half
- 8 oz semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 8 large egg yolks (save egg whites for another recipe)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 8 TBSP sugar for topping
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 300° F.
- Bring cream and half and half to boil.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Add chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Whisk yolks and 1/3 cup sugar in large bowl.
- Gradually whisk in hot chocolate mixture.
- Strain.
- Divide custard into eight 3/4 cup custard cups.
- Place cups in large baking pan.
- Add enough hot water to pan to come halfway up sides of cups.
- Bank until custards are set, about 50 minutes.
- Remove from water.
- Chill 2 hours.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Preheat broiler.
- Sprinkle each custard with 1 TBSP sugar.
- Broil until sugar turns golden, watching closely. About 3 minutes.
- Refrigerate until custards are set, 1 - 2 hours.
- Using a kitchen torch, hold the torch about 2" fro the top and move slowly back and forth until the sugar caramelizes.