Chocolate Cream

Name: Chocolate Cream
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 300 g dark milk chocolate; 1 small strong espresso; 20 ml cognac; 5 eggs; 3 tbsp vanilla sugar; 125 g chilled whipping cream; 50 g sugar; 300 g strawberries (or raspberries or currants); 8 cantucci Italian almond cookies

Prep: 30min

| Servings: 8 | Cook: 15min

Chocolate cream is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the menu category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

300 g dark milk chocolate
1 small strong espresso
20 ml cognac
5 eggs
3 tbsp vanilla sugar
125 g chilled whipping cream
50 g sugar
300 g strawberries (or raspberries or currants)
8 cantucci Italian almond cookies

Instructions

1.
Wash strawberries, pat dry and halve. Place a few halves in each glass bowl.
2.
Coarsely chop chocolate and melt with cognac and espresso over simmering water. Remove from heat. Separate eggs; beat yolks with vanilla sugar until fluffy, then add melted chocolate. Whip chilled cream to stiff peaks. Beat egg whites with sugar into stiff meringue. Fold yolk mixture into chocolate, then fold in whipped cream quickly before it sets.
3.
Fold in meringue gently.
4.
Fill glass bowls, top with more strawberry halves and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Serve garnished with almond cookies.