21st century Chocolate Cream
Makes 4 - 4.5 oz servings

4 oz. or 1 cup, grated, Heritage Chocolate

1/3 cup sugar, plus 2 tablespoons

Salt, pinch

1 pint heavy cream

2 large egg yolks

1 teaspoon vanilla

Procedure:
1. Combine chocolate, sugar, salt and cream in a medium sauce pan over medium-high heat. Bring to a slow boil while whisking constantly.
2. Whisk the egg yolks together in a small bowl.
3. Ladle ½ cup hot-chocolate mixture into egg-yolks, whisking constantly. Slowly, pour chocolate-egg- yolk mixture back into the sauce pan.
4. Reduce heat to medium-low. Using a wooden spoon, stir constantly. Simmer chocolate cream until it thickly coats the back of a wooden spoon. Turn off heat, stir in vanilla.
5. Pour into 4, 4.5-oz pudding dishes. Refrigerate for 4 hours, or overnight.

 


(Author: Deanna Pucciarelli, Chef and Associate Researcher, Nutrition Department, UC Davis).