Chocolate Souffle
Decadent and delicious. A chocolate souffle can be hard to master, but when it’s baked with Bakeomatic, it’s simply perfect.
Ingredients
2 tbs unsalted butter (softened, for greasing)
150g caster sugar (separated into 3 x 50g lots)
600ml full cream milk
340g dark chocolate
6L eggs, separated
30g plain flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract or paste
½ tsp cream of tartar
Method
Grease a 1.5L souffle dish/ramekin with the softened butter and pour in 50g of sugar. Tilt the ramekin to coat the inside evenly with the sugar, then pour out the excess and set the ramekin aside.
Place the milk into a medium saucepan. Use PowerPlus on the FullFlex cooktop to bring the milk to just before boiling. When signal is emitted removed the pan and whisk in the chopped chocolate until melted. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, 50g of sugar, flour, salt and vanilla until smooth.
Add ½ cup of the chocolate milk mixture to the yolks and whisk until combined.
Return the pan with the remaining chocolate milk mixture back to the cooktop over medium heat and pour in the chocolate egg yolk mixture. Whisk constantly until very thick.
Remove the chocolate pastry cream from the heat and transfer to a large bowl. Cover with cling film, pressing the cling film down so that it touches the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
In a large clean and dry bowl, combine the egg whites and cream of tartar. Whip with an electric whisk until they turn opaque and leave trails. Gradually add the remaining 50g of sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
Spoon about 1 cup of the whites into the chocolate pastry cream. Fold until no white streaks remain. Gently fold in the rest of the whites in 2 batches, being careful not to deflate the whites. Once no white streaks are visible, gently transfer the batter to the prepared ramekin and smooth out the top.
Run your thumb between the outside edge of the dish and the batter to create a border.
Place the dish onto a rack in the middle of your oven. Select BakeOMatic – Souffle. Start the program. Remove at the end of the automatic cooking time.
Serve immediately with crème fraiche or double cream and fresh raspberries.