Welcome to HOW TO COOK THAT I am ANN REARDON
This week we are making a dessert inspired by chef Peter Gilmores Chocolate dessert,
his dessert has 8 textures but we are going to simplify that today and turn this impressive
dessert into one that is quick and easy to make.
To start with we're going to need to make our chocolate discs.
So take some tempered chocolate and spread it thinly onto a sheet of foil.
Once the chocolate is starting to get firm but is not yet set cut around something round
in the size that you want your dessert to be.
I am using one that is 11cm that is probably as big as you'd want to get because otherwise
you're not going to be able to eat it all.
As chocolate sets it can tend to warp and go out of shape a bit so to stop that happening
place another sheet of foil over the top and cover it with a heavy book.
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Melt your butter or your margarine, stir in the sugar.
For those of you who are waiting on the chocolate truffle recipes don't worry it is coming next
week.
I am making them and filming them this week for you for those of you who are new to the
channel I try and do them in order of a cake decorating video then a dessert or a sweet
snack one and then another chocolate video.
So the chocolate truffles will be here next week, caramel ones are so good.
If you've done them on the stove top your mixture is probably a bit hot so you'll need
to allow it cool.
And then whisk in your eggs,
followed by the unsweetened cocoa powder.
I definitely should have used a bigger bowl here.
And then your flour and your baking powder.
Whisk that altogether until it is just mixed in then add a dash of marsala which is a sweet
italian dessert wine, it just brings out the flavour of the chocolate and then a little
dash of vanilla.
Mix those in.
Pour that mixture into your baking tray lined with baking paper.
Now the one I'm using is 26 x 38cm and it's probably just not quite tall enough on the
sides mine so to stop it spilling over into the oven and making a huge mess I have made
my baking paper go up higher on the sides and stapled it into place so that it's not
going to overflow.
Coarsely chop up some white chocolate, now you can usee whatever you want here, you can
add nuts, dried fruit, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything you fancy.
Just chop that up and sprinkle it over the top.
And if you want more perfectly looking round desserts then you don't need to add anything
at all you can leave it plain which will make it easier to cut exact circles out of it.
Or instead of using this brownie mixture you could use the chocolate cheesecake recipe
that I've shown you previously or something else just use your imagination.
Bake that brownie in the oven until a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean,
and you can smell that brownie smell wafting through your house, then you know it's done.
Allow it to cool completely And then using the same circle object that you used the first
time cut circles from the brownie, and then you can eat the scrap pieces from the edge
mmm so good.
Using a smaller cutter cut out a circle from the centre of each of those.
Now to make you ganache place your chocolate into a bowl, now I am using a mixture of milk
and dark that's how I like my ganache to be.
You can use all dark, all milk you can use white chocolate if you like it is up to what
you prefer.
Now if you are melting it in the microwave be careful not to burn it just give 30 seconds
then stir it, 20 sec stir it and then 10 seconds stir it and just keep giving ten second bursts
until its melted.
Then pour in your cream and mix it.
At first that seems like its not really coming together very well but you just keep mixing
and it becomes a nice smooth ganache.
When you are ready to serve your dessert make sure your sauce is nice and warm, remove the
alfoil from your chocolate disc and place it on top of your dessert add a scoop of ice
cream.
Then serve it to the table and at the table put a spoonful of your hot ganache on top
and it will melt through the centre of the dessert.
Now I like to have a real chocolate lava flow to the dessert when people cut into it.
If you want that as well then put some extra ganache into the centre before you put your
chocolate disc on and then when you add you ganache on top it will have the same dropping
effect but then also when they cut into it with their spoon that chocolate ganache is
just going to ooze out of the dessert making it just unbelievably yummy.
Enjoy and I'll see you next week with the chocolate truffles recipe.
Have a good week, Bye.
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