Now this is a truly indulgent recipe, the chocolate is reach and creamy, so the strawberries give a little acidity and sweetness to it. To round the whole thing off, I add some cold Sabayon. All in all you get this great dessert that is colorful and absolutely delicious. I make the chocolate cubes flour less as like this the flavor is even more intensive and apart for from that, it is a perfect dessert for a gluten free diet
Chocolate Cubes
300 g Chocolate
3 ea Eggs
1 ea Egg yolk
250 g Butter
Strawberry Compote
500 g Strawberries
100 g Sugar
0.5 ea Vanilla bean, scraped
50 ml Red Wine
15 g Corn Starch
Sabayon
2 ea Egg Yolks
50 ml Marsala
75 ml White Wine
50 g Sugar
150 ml Cream, whipped
Method
For the Chocolate Cubes, melt the butter and then add the chocolate. Over very low heat melt the chocolate, stirring constantly. Then when the chocolate is completely melted, add the beaten eggs. Stir nicely till you have a smooth batter
Pour in a square, buttered baking tin and bake at 120 C for about one hour or till cooked. Make sure the heat is not too high to avoid over cooking
For the Strawberry Compote mix Strawberries, Sugar and Vanilla and bring to the boil. Mix Corn Starch and Red Wine, add to the strawberries, stirring all the time, it will thicken nicely. The take immediately off the heat and cool to room temperature
For the Sabayon mix all ingredients except the cream in a metal bowl, big enough to whisk the eggs rapidly and to make sure it doesn't over flow when all the foam comes up during the cooking and whisking
I love the combination of flavors in this recipe, I'm particularly intrigued by the strawberry compote. PS - the top picture of the penguin in the last post is priceless!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Kat, nice to see you here om my Blog. I think I could write 3 Blogs a day with all the recipes I like to share and travel stories, but I guess I have to work from time to time too. As for the Penguin, I was walking back to the ship at Shackleton's hut and crossed his way.....glad you like the photo
ReplyDeleteThis looks really interesting - thanks for linking it in.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carole
ReplyDeleteIt is actually such an easy recipe, I did it now for many years and it always is a hit, one can just bake it in a round tin and then use as a cake, just a bit whipped cream with it and finish!