Petit pot au chocolat

Tamara West

For those times when you need a chocolate fix, Warren Elwin provides

Ingredients

3	Eggs, yolks only
4 tsp	Caster sugar
250 ml	Cream
½	Vanilla pods
170 g	Dark chocolate, 72% cocoa (Main)
1 piece	Orange peel

Directions

1. Beat egg yolks with sugar until pale and doubled in volume.
2. Into a pot add cream, vanilla pod and a piece of orange peel. Heat until scalded butnot boiling.
3. Break chocolate into a bowl and strain the cream on to it. Stir until melted. Whisk into the egg yolks and strain mixture evenly into small espresso-sized cups.
4. To create a bain marie, place cups into a deep ovenproof dish, and fill the dish with boiling water, up to half the height of the cups.
5. Bake in a 150C oven for 1 hour.
6. Remove from the dish, cool and then chill to serve.