Best Creamy Chocolate Pudding

Do you like chocolate, really do ? 

This is a recipe you have to try... 

It's the best chocolate cream I've ever tasted ! 

This recipe is from Cook's Illustrated, they really do have great recipes.

  Preparation    15 minutes top, so quick and easy !

  Tasting    So onctuous and creamy and... perfect, but if you prefer milk chocolate rather than dark chocolate, this recipe is not for you !

  To conclude    I did it 3 times in a row... loved it too much !

Serves 6 to 8

   You will need :   

1/2 cup white sugar

2tbsp cornstarch

- Maizena -

3tbsp unsweetened cocoa

- Van Houten or Hershey's unsweetened -

2 pinch of salt

- environ 2gr -

3 egg yolks

2 1/2 cup  milk (21fl.oz/62,5cL)

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream (2fl.oz/6cL) 

4tbsp unsalted butter (1.8oz/50gr)

1cup bittersweet chocolate ~80% cocoa (3.9oz/110gr)

2tsp vanilla extract

1/2tsp strong ground coffee

- I used Nespresso coffee -

In a small bowl, mix vanilla and coffee. Set aside.

Prepare together butter and chocolate in morsels. Set aside.

In a saucepan, stir in sugar, cocoa salt and cornstarch, mix.

Whisk in the yolks and the cream until homogeneous

Whisk in the milk until fully integrated.

Bring slowly to a boil at low heat, whisking slowly. It takes 7 to 8 minutes.

When all the surface is simmering/boiling. Count down 30 secondes while whisking.

Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate and butter in morsels. Whisk until homogeneous !

Whisk in the vanilla/coffee mix.

When you have an homogeneous cream, pour in a bowl and cover with buttered parchment paper.

Refrigerate 2 hours.

Whisk and serve !

 - I love so much chocolate ! -

Sweet and tender muffins with chocolate, banana and honey !

I loved the Cranberrie's recipe so much this time muffins are banana and chocolate !

Turn your oven on, these are really really good !

 For a dozen big muffins

   Il vous faut :    

For the main batter

1 3/4 cup flour (6.3oz/180gr)

3/4 cup whitesugar (6.3oz /180gr)

1/4 cup brown sugar (0.7oz/20gr)

7tbsp of slowly melted and cooled butter (2.8oz/80gr)

2 tsp baking powder

2 large eggs

1/2 cup of milk (4.2 fl oz/12,5 cL)

- whole milk -

3/4 cup of dark chocolate, chopped (2.5 oz/70 gr) 

- 70% -

3/4 tsp salt

For the bananas

2 cups bananas (10.6oz/300gr)

- 2 grandes bananes ou 6 petites -

2tbsp honey

For the Streusel

3tbsp flour 

1 tbsp + 1tsp white sugar

1tbsp light brown sugar

4tbsp softened butter

2 pinch of salt

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa

Turn the oven on at 425°F

Make the streusel

Mix sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and butter in a food processor until mixture resembles coarse sand 

- 4 to 5 pressures -

Pour in a bowl, set aside

Prepare bananas 

Cut the bananas in small dices and stir honey by hand in them,

Cover and set aside.

Preparing the main batter

Butter and flour the mold if needed.

In a saucepan, slowly melt the butter and let it cool down a few minutes

\\ or use a microwave, 2 x 12secondes, stirring in between //

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Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl, set aside.

In another bowl, use an electric beater to beat egs and sugar until white and fluffy

- 1 minute -

Pour in the butter, whisking, then the milk.

Add the flour little by little by whisking.

Cover and set aside 30 minutes

Stir in the bananas, the chocolate and fill your muffin tins.

Have the center a bit higher and spread streusel on the top, press lightly on it.

Bake 17 to 18 minutes

- Rotate muffin tray from front to bacj hafway through baking -

Let them cool down 10 minutes in their tins

 and 10 more minutes on a wire rack before eating them all !

 

 - Only one left... -

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Sweet and tender muffins with cranberries and nuts

I replaced nuts by praline :)

Awsome muffin recipe :3 It's the Cook's Illustrated recipe " Very good pecan cranberrie muffins recipe"

Yvonne Ruperti has worked on this recipe and did a great job ! I haven't done the streusel this time :) 

They are gorgeous, I strongly recommand them !

I wanted to get a subscription but they just accept credit cards... 

- Ami ? -

For twenty small muffins, or a dozen big ones

   You will need :    

For the muffin

1 3/4 cup of flour (6.3oz/180gr)

1 cup of white sugar (7oz/200gr)

6 tbsp of melted and cooled softely butter (2.5oz/70gr)

1,5 tsp of baking powder

2 eggs

1/2 cup of milk (4.2 fl oz/12,5cL)

- whole milk is better -

1 1/4 cup of pecan halves toasted and cooled (3.5oz/100gr)

- 7 minutes in the oven at 350°F,  stir every 3 minutes -

1tsp of salt

For the cranberries

2 cups of fresh cranberries (7oz/200gr) or frozen, or dry...

- You can replace by other red fruits, or dry grapes... -

1tbsp of confectioner's sugar

- powdered -

For the streusel

3tbsp of flour

4tsp of white sugar

1tbsp of light brown sugar

2tbsp of unsalted sugar, softened (20gr)

Pinch of salt

1/2 cup of pecan halves (40gr) 

Making the streusel

Turn the oven on at 425°F

Put sugars, flour, salt and diced butter in the food processor until mixture resembles coarse sand 

OR

use your hands :-)

- 4 or 5 pulse -

Add the pecan halves in the food processor and pulse it 3 or 4 times until coarsely chopped.

Set aside in a bowl.

Prepare your fruits 

If you are using dry ones, pour boiled water on them, real warm water and let them soak in 5 minutes.

If they are frozen, use the microwave to unfreeze-them and dry them out.

Baking the muffins

Butter and flour your molds

Whisk flour, salt and baking powder, set aside.

Chop coarsely nuts and sugar until mixture resembles coarse sand

- 10 to 15 secondes in the food processor -

Put that sugar in a bowl, pour the eggs in and whisk it together. 

Then, add the butter mix with a whisk, and the milk.

Finally pour the flour mix little by little

- 1 : eggs and sugar-nuts // 2 : After adding butter and milk // 3 : After adding the flour mix -

Set it aside 30 minutes

Chop cranberries with confectioner's sugar and the salt in the food processor until coarsely chopped. Pour it in your muffin dough.

Use an ice scoop to fill equally your muffin-tin

Try to get the center of the muffin a bit higher.

Spray some streusel on it and press gently with your fingers so it wil stick on the dough.

Bake 17 to 18 minutes, until golden and just firm, don't overbake.

Rotate muffin tin from front to back halfway through baking.

Let them cool 10 minutes in their tins, and 10 more minutes on wire rack

before eating them all :)

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