Dark chocolate soufflé with Christmas pudding ice cream and cinnamon sugar
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- 6
- 2 hours
A stunning dark chocolate soufflé recipe from Shaun Rankin is given a festive streak with a Christmas pudding ice cream. If you don’t have time to make the ice cream, buy a good quality vanilla ice cream, spoon into a bowl, crumble over the Christmas pudding and mix well. Place back into a container, cover and put in the freezer until needed.
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Ingredients
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Ice cream
- 150g of christmas pudding
- 4 egg yolks
- 90g of caster sugar
- 250ml of milk
- 250ml of whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla pod, split
Soufflé base
- 3 eggs
- 85g of caster sugar
- 300ml of milk
- 25g of cornflour
- 25g of cocoa powder
Soufflé
- 6 egg whites
- 110g of caster sugar
- 100g of dark chocolate chips
Ramekins
- 50g of butter, softened
- 6 tbsp of caster sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
To plate
- 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, for dusting
- 3 tbsp of redcurrants
SAVE RECIPE
Equipment
- Steel bowl
- 6 ramekins
Method
1
To make the ice cream, whisk the egg yolks and sugar until creamy and pale. Heat the milk and cream in a pan, add the vanilla extract and vanilla pod and bring to the boil
- 4 egg yolks
- 90g of caster sugar
- 250ml of milk
- 250ml of whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla pod
2
Pour the milk mix into the egg and sugar mix, whisking well
3
Pour the combined mix back into the pan and cook until the custard just coats the back of the spoon. Remove the vanilla pod and pour into a container and cool in the fridge
4
Break up the Christmas pudding and stir into the cold ice cream base. Place in the freezer
- 150g of christmas pudding
5
Every hour, until the mixture freezes, turn the mix over with a spoon so that the Christmas pudding does not settle on the bottom. Freeze until needed
6
To make the soufflé base, put the eggs and sugar in a bowl and whisk until creamy and pale
- 3 eggs
- 85g of caster sugar
7
Heat the milk in a saucepan until it just boils. Pour the milk over the eggs and mix well
- 300ml of milk
8
Sieve the cornflour and cocoa powder into the milk and eggs and then return the mixture to the saucepan
- 25g of cornflour
- 25g of cocoa powder
9
Cook, stirring, until thickened. Pour into a clean bowl and cool
10
To prepare the ramekins, brush 6 moulds with the soft butter making sure they’re evenly covered
- 50g of butter
11
Mix the caster sugar and cinnamon powder together and pour into the ramekins
- 6 tbsp of caster sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
12
Roll each one around until the insides are evenly covered and then tip out the excess sugar mix
13
It’s important that you take your time at this stage otherwise your soufflé might not rise evenly
14
To make the soufflé, heat a fan assisted oven to 180°C/Gas mark 6. Whisk the egg whites to form soft peaks
15
Add the sugar and keep whisking until firm peaks are achieved
- 110g of caster sugar
16
Put the cooled soufflé base into a clean steel bowl. Add one or two spoonfuls of the egg white and whisk in well to loosen the mixture
17
Carefully fold in the rest of the egg whites using a stainless steel spoon. Sprinkle over the chocolate chips and carefully mix
- 100g of dark chocolate chips
18
Spoon the mixture into the ramekins and level off with a palette knife. Using your thumb, run around the edge of the ramekin to form a moat - this helps with the rising of the soufflé
19
Place on a baking tray and cook for 7 minutes
20
Finally, dust with cocoa powder and serve immediately with a good spoonful of Christmas pudding ice cream and some redcurrants
- 1 tbsp of cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp of redcurrants
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