Welcome to How To Cook That i'm Ann Reardon and lots of you have requested another mini kitchen
episode so i thought we'd make a recipe out of my cookbook my mini kitchen has actually
been on display at the miniature worlds of wonder exhibition so i haven't been able to
film anything for you but with Melbourne being in lockdown for so so long and the exhibition
being temporarily closed i asked if i could borrow it back so i could film this one for you
first of all break the chocolate into pieces this block is so tiny that i'm going to use a knife to
break it up otherwise i think my fingers would just melt it or i might eat it and then put all
the little pieces into the bowl in a separate bowl you want 8 egg yolks and add to that your sugar
and then just whisk them together until they are well combined and it's all smooth now you
want to grab yourself some cream and pour that into a pan and put it on the stove top
you want to turn up the heat and make sure you watch it because it goes from just
slightly bubbling to wanting to boil over really quickly so you need to remove that from the heat
and while you're whisking pour a small amount of the hot cream into the yolks now this makes it
easier to mix it in without getting chunks of cooked egg you're kind of warming up that egg
mixture and then you tip that warmed mixture back into the rest of the hot cream whisking as you do
i've never tried to temper egg yolks on such a miniature scale before now you want to put that
back onto the stovetop and heat it for a little bit you don't want to overcook this or it will
curdle and go lumpy but you do want to cook it enough that you've fully cooked the egg yolks
then once it's ready you immediately remove it from the heat and pour it over your chocolate
wait a moment for that chocolate to melt and then stir it together really well
i'm using a spoon a whisk would have been much better suited to this task but i only have one
whisk in the mini kitchen and it needs washing so i'll just have to keep persevering with a spoon
just keep stirring it until you can see just the one chocolatey color and this is your
chocolatey cremo which is like a very rich chocolate custard grab yourself a muffin tin
and rest some glasses in the tin so they're leaning on an angle if you don't have a muffin tin
you could use small bowls for this instead using a piping bag put enough cremo into your glasses
so that it fills it up to the top on an angle you can of course make this recipe full size if you
want to the recipe is in my cookbook so when your mum or dad asks you what do you want for christmas
you know what to ask for if your glasses are not as tiny as mine you can probably get away with
using a jug instead of a piping bag for this and it should look much neater the line should
actually go on a nice angle mine is so tiny it doesn't even want to level out then you just
want to take those and carefully pop them into the fridge to set tip your jelly crystals into a bowl
you can use raspberry or strawberry whichever you prefer then add in your boiling water and
stir that until the sugar is dissolved then you want to leave your jelly to cool down to room
temperature which really doesn't take long when the bowl is this tiny grab the cremo out of the
fridge and get your raspberries while you're there stand up the glasses they don't need to be on a
slope anymore but you can see how that promotes to staying on an angle and add a raspberry into
each one or in my case a tiny little piece of a raspberry into each one spoon in some of that
cooled jelly mixture onto the top so the glass is full all the way up to the very top and then you
want to put those back in the fridge to set clean up your work area that's very important if you
want to be allowed to be in the kitchen again and then top each dessert with a swirl of chocolate
there we go beautiful chocolate crema with raspberries with thanks to my
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