This isn't a true soufflé, but it's easy and provides a direct chocolate fix. Leonardo, it heals bruised kneecaps...or helps you forget the pain.
Mock Chocolate Soufflé for Two
2/3 cup whole milk
1/4 cup granulated white sugar
1 (1 oz.) square unsweetened chocolate
Pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Sweetened whipped cream
In a double boiler, heat milk, sugar, chocolate and salt until chocolate melts. Add vanilla and beat smooth. Drop in eggs and beat 1 minute with an electric mixer. (You can use a hand rotary mixer, but an immersion blender doesn't add enough air to the finished soufflé.) Cover double boiler and cook 30 minutes - do NOT remove cover as it cooks. Don't peek, or stir, or worry about what's happening. Remove top of double boiler immediately, and don't wait too long to serve - I like to top servings with whipped cream, it will melt a bit.
Serves two, but can be doubled if you have a nice, deep double boiler.
If you don't have a double boiler, you can improvise one with two saucepans - be sure the smaller one has a tight-fitting lid.
7 comments:
Dear Evilone,
I´m going to fix you for attempting to be nice to a cranky knee hurting liberal...I´m going to use that double boiler to soak my little throbbing kneenog...red is such a unattractive color when one is already pink.
Does it work from the inside if I just ate it?
Mean but sweet.
Grumpy
Dearest Lynn,
We´ve been SAVED! Both me and my Knee have been healed by your Chocolate Soufflé for Two!
Recovery from overly-enthusiastic knee knocking against a table leg requires a few days ¨off¨...I guess well need a little more of your wonderful medicine!
HEAL, I say, HEAL!
Thanks Lynn!
Made it. It was really, really good, too!
James glad you tried it out. It's easy to make, isn't it?
Leonardo, dearest, you didn't (ahem) use it as a salve for the knee, did you? But hey, if it works, we shall market a new chocolate kneecap balm. Made with all organic ingredients, of course :-)
I love chocolate, it´s like denial and pretend, so multi-purpose!
Thanks again, I´m healing, but this took longer than I thought and I want to RUN, RUN, RUN!
Yummmmm.....
I wonder if I can persuade my beloved to try it? (She is not a chocolate person as I am)
IT, leftovers can be refrigerated, though the texture does get heavier. So it can be, ahem, chocolate souffle for one in a pinch.
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