Sometimes shaking up the routine is good. Replacing the typical square of chocolate for dessert with a few ripe figs or a bowl of really good ice cream. Or something just a bit richer. Meet the chocolate pot.
This recipe is simple in that the ingredients are few and they're quite common: cream, milk, chocolate, egg, vanilla and a dash of allspice. The result? These are almost a cross between a decadent chocolate pudding, rich chocolate mousse and a pot de crème.
The inability to characterize this dessert perfectly could be attributed to the amount of chocolate called for (a lot) and the chill time required (at least 5 hours). While pumpkin desserts are everywhere these days, a really simple chocolate dessert can be a lifesaver for a tough week or a sudden craving. These are just the thing, we think.
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Related: D.I.Y Chocolate Pudding
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This is such a wonderful dessert! So many advantages: it's made ahead, it's made from things I usually have on the shelf (except cream, which I can pick up at the corner store), and you can make it feel posh or simple by changing the dishes and garnishes.
Since I was a teenager, I've been using an impossibly simple 1960s-era recipe for pots de chocolate from Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book. I did make one modification: I cook the mixture just long enough to cook the egg through; the original recipe just called for putting the chocolate and egg in a blender with scalded "coffee cream" (a.k.a., half-and-half) and blending it "'til the racket stops."
Elsa,
I have the I Hate to Cook Book and I just double checked and my version does not have the pots de chocolate, please share! Mine does have the cock-eyed cake that I grew up with, still make and still love though.
EmilyLentini, it might have been in the follow-up volume, The Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book. Here's the original recipe; as I said, I cook it just long enough to cook the egg --- just a few minutes until it thickens to coat a spoon well.
Excellent!
What a wonderful dessert!Love it so much!Chocolate is always be my favorite!