455g best-quality cooking chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
50ml hot espresso or good strong instant coffee
125g butter, plus extra for greasing
6 eggs, free-range or organic, separated
200g caster sugar
100g ground almonds
100g rice flour
1 small handful chopped hazelnuts, toasted
Method:
- Melt 125g chocolate with the coffee, then pour into small ice-cube moulds and freeze until hard.
- Preheat the oven to 190ºC.
- Take 6 small 3 inch pastry rings, dariole moulds or cappuccino cups and grease well with some butter. Place in the fridge while you make your sponge mixture.
- Melt the remaining chocolate with the butter in a bowl over a pan of boiling water.
- In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites with the sugar until firm.
- Fold the yolks into the cooled chocolate and butter mixture, then add the almonds and flour. Finish by carefully folding in the egg white mixture.
- Take the moulds out of the fridge and spoon a little mixture into each one, then push in a cube of the frozen coffee and chocolate mixture. Cover with the rest of the sponge mixture so each ice cube is completely enveloped.
- Bake for about 18–20 minutes, then remove carefully from the moulds while hot. Serve immediately sprinkled with hazelnuts.
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