Quick chocolate cream

This is a very quick dessert to make – in fact, it can be made while other dishes are cooking.  It is speeded up by setting it in a freezer.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 5 Mins

Total Time: 1 Hr

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

1 tbs               Crème de Cacao       

2                    Egg whites  - beaten stiffly      

170 gms          Chocolate  - dark     

230 ml             Cream  - double      

2 tbs               Brandy      

                     Sugar  - icing          

Method

Soften the chocolate over a low heat and beat it vigorously.  Whisk the cream stiffly and whip it into the chocolate a little at a time.   While still beating, add the liqueur and brandy in drops followed by the sugar -a little at a time - until mixture is sweet enough and has become smooth.

Add the egg whites spoonful by spoonful.  Tip mixture into glasses and place them in a freezer.  When ready to serve, the chocolate cream will have become icily set.

Wine recommendations

A sweet or fortified wine

Conventional

     Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise

Interesting

     Malmsey Madeira

     Pedro Ximénez Sherry

     Riesling Vendange Tardive

Adventurous

     Crémant de Loire