An Easy Chocolate Fondant Recipe by Dean Cole, Head Pastry Chef at The Belfry Hotel & Resor
Hot Chocolate Fondant Recipe
Dean Cole, Head Pastry Chef at The Belfry Hotel & Resort has shared his recipe to make six gooey and rich hot chocolate fondants so you can make hotel quality food at home. Thank you Dean these look absolutely scrummy
Ingredients for Hot Chocolate Fondant Recipe
140g 85% dark chocolate
125g Unsalted butter
4 Large eggs
120g Caster sugar
75g Plain flour
Butter
Cocoa powder
Hot chocolate fondant recipe
Ingredients
- 140g 85% dark chocolate
- 125g Unsalted butter
- 4 Large eggs
- 120g Caster sugarer
- 75g Plain flour
- Cocoa powder
- Butter
Instructions
- Melt 140g of dark chocolate with a 125g unsalted butter over a pan of hot water
- Once melted remove from the pan, add two eggs, and whisk the mixture
- Add the last two eggs and continue to whisk the mixture before adding 120g of caster sugar.
- Continue to stir the chocolate mixture
- Add 75g of plain flour and stir the mix until smooth
- Lightly butter your moulds and coat with cocoa powder before transferring the mix (approx. 120g)
- Place the filled moulds on a tray and bake for eight minutes at 180֯C
- After eight minutes, remove from the oven and leave to rest for two minutes
- Serve as desired. We recommend this chocolate fondant recipe with berries and whipped cream or ice cream
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Chocolate Fondant Recipe Video
For those of you who prefer to see how it is made I think you will enjoy this little recipe video
Oh my goodness I want ot eat this right NOW!
Method for Hot Chocolate Fondant Recipe
- Melt 140g of dark chocolate with a 125g unsalted butter over a pan of hot water
- Once melted remove from the pan, add two eggs, and whisk the mixture
- Add the last two eggs and continue to whisk the mixture before adding 120g of caster sugar. Continue to stir the chocolate mixture
- Add 75g of plain flour and stir the mix until smooth
- Lightly butter your moulds and coat with cocoa powder before transferring the mix (approx. 120g)
- Place the filled moulds on a tray and bake for eight minutes at 180֯C
- After eight minutes, remove from the oven and leave to rest for two minutes
- Serve as desired. We recommend serving with berries and whipped cream or ice cream
I bet you rather loved that last serving image, didn’t you!
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How did you get on?
If you give this scrummy Hot Chocolate Fondant Recipe a try I would absolutely love to hear how you got on so please do drop me a comment below
Further recipes from A Beautiful Space to tantalise your tastebuds
If you enjoyed this yummy chocolate fondant recipe you might also like my recipes for the following delicious desserts:
lemon and choc chip butter biscuits
These are sure to keep you busy baking for a while at least! What is your favourite dessert? I think mine is probably treacle sponge pud with ice cream, though once I have tried these fondants I think that might change
I do hope you have enjoyed learning to make this easy chocolate fondant recipe – one of the very best things I have enjoyed about recent time s is the chance to be much more creative and to bake form scratch a lot more. I don’t think my waistline is going to thank me for it though!
