Hot Chocolate Fondant | Food

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Date Published:: 19/12/2007

The Christmas menu dessert falls to the Maria and she chooses chocolate

Serves 4

Ingredients

For the chocolate pudding

100g good quality dark chocolate
100g butter
2 large eggs
100g caster sugar
20g plain flour

For the lemon pot

450ml double cream
100g caster sugar
juice and zest of two lemons

For the biscuits

100g unsalted butter
75g caster sugar
zest of ½ a lemon
½ beaten egg
115g plain flour
pinch salt

For the raspberry coulis

300g fresh or frozen raspberries
juice of 1 lemon
1-2 tbsp of icing sugar (more if you prefer it sweeter)

Method: How to make hot chocolate fondant with lemon pots and raspberry coulis

1. For the chocolate pudding: Preheat the oven to 200°c. Melt the butter and chocolate in a glass dish over a pan of simmering water. Once melted, set aside to cool. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs, caster sugar and flour by hand.

2. With the chocolate mixture cool, stir into the egg mixture until smooth and blended. Pour into buttered ramekins and cook for about 12-15 minutes. When set, remove from oven.

3. For the lemon pot: Place the sugar and lemon zest into a pan and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar. Boil for 3 minutes then take off the heat and whisk in lemon juice. Strain through a sieve into a jug and then pour into the pots. Cover and chill for a few hours.

4. For the biscuits: Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until fluffy. Beat in the lemon zest and egg and gradually mix in the flour and salt to make a soft dough. Shape the dough into a rectangular block about 3cm wide, wrap in cling film and chill for around 3 hours until firm.

5. Once chilled, preheat the oven to 200°c, cut the dough into 5mm thick slices , place each biscuit 5cm apart on a buttered baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes until golden.

6. For the raspberry coulis: Place the raspberries in a saucepan and add the lemon. Mash gently with a fork and sift in the icing sugar, stirring until dissolved. Place over a low heat.

7. When the raspberries are heated and just simmering pour through a sieve into a jug, pushing the juice through with a wooden spoon. Serve cold.

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nah add the cream when u add the zest n sugar, n bring to boil i thik they have missed the cream part but i made it last week n it was YUM...

Posted by jasmine on 06/02/2009 15:27:37

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really want to make this for valentines day but when is the cream added to the recipe? Also i would like the name of the dessert red too please

Posted by Debbie on 26/01/2009 14:16:56

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I was planning to make the lemon pots and now discover there is something wrong with the recipe Please advise about the cream Many thanks

Posted by Sue Nicholas on 03/01/2009 14:01:48

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I was going to make the lemon pots for new year day dinner but looking at Anne Marie's comment I am wondering. Have any of you made them and did they taste nice.

Posted by Cynthia on 29/12/2008 17:07:21

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I recently made the lemon pot and it looked really good. However, it tasted awful. My friend made it as well (just in case, my cooking was at fault) and it was the same. Not nice on my palate at all!

Posted by Anne-Marie on 28/12/2008 02:19:54

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I would like to make the lemon pots for friends on sunday can you advise me you add the cream please. tks Nora

Posted by Nora on 26/12/2008 12:50:41

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Great recipe, but does anyone remember the name of the red dessert wine that Maria served?

Posted by DonnaK on 21/12/2008 20:48:23

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Please advise when is the cream added in the little lemon pot recipe - I can't make them until I know - A christmas dessert with a difference is hanging on your reply?? Thanks

Posted by JaneG on 20/12/2008 22:42:45

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put the cream in with the castor sugar

Posted by peanuts on 20/12/2008 21:37:45

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With reference to the lemon pots when do you add the cream? I think a line of instruction has been missed out. I saw this episode and the food looked beautiful and I am dying to re create it.

Posted by Liz on 19/12/2008 10:09:06

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Where in the lemon pot recipe is the cream? help!

Posted by jenninj on 07/12/2008 19:53:46

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Method: How to make hot chocolate fondant with lemon pots and raspberry coulis

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