Margaret Twemlow

Dinner Parties Foret noir (black forest pudding) recipe

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Date Published:
19/12/2007

Margaret Twemlow from Liverpool plants a Black Forest cherry on the top of her Come Dine With Me menu

Serves 1

Ingredients

  • 140g best dark chocolate (minimum 75% cocoa)
  • 4 tbsp brandy or kirsch
  • 110g molasses sugar
  • 85g unsalted butter
  • 8 slices of white bread
  • pinch of mixed spice
  • 3 large eggs
  • jar morello cherries (soaked in brandy and pitted)
  • 430ml of double cream
  • clotted cream to serve
  • 225g raspberries

Method: How to make foret noir (black forest pudding)

1. Place the chocolate, double cream, brandy, sugar and butter in a bowl over a pan of hot water and melt.

2. Whisk eggs and add to the chocolate mixture. Remove the crusts from bread and cut into circles

3. Layer the chocolate, bread, cherries and raspberries into ramekin dishes topping with circles of bread. Pour over all of the chocolate mixture and place in the fridge.

4. Allow the bread to absorb all of the chocolate mixture. Leave it overnight if desired.

5. Preheat the oven to 150°c and cook for approximately 20 minutes. Sprinkle with cocoa powder. Serve with clotted cream.

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