Friday 5 July 2013

Chocolate Pots

So dd's German exchange student arrived late on Wednesday night which left me as a zombie during the day yesterday and when I haven't had enough sleep, I become grumpy. That feeling started to improve by yesterday afternoon, in part helped by invigilating students in a computer room with air conditioning - bliss and it kept me awake.

We don't normally have a pudding during the week unless I've made something at the weekend and we're eating leftovers. It was only the girls in last night and as we were eating dinner, I suggested we could go for a walk afterwards or maybe pop down to the pub on the river for a dessert. I left the girls to think about it and they were obviously thinking so hard that they forgot all about it. I thought I'd use the time to surf the internet and I came across this post on honey and soy. To be honest, I had book marked it a while ago thinking it would be great to make as the chocolate pots looked so luscious and I can reliably inform you that they tasted luscious too. As I hadn't heard anything from the girls for a while (deep into watching The Big Bang Theory) I decided to make these chocolate pots for pudding. So easy and so yummy.

130g chocolate (the recipe states dark chocolate but I didn't have enough left so I combined milk and dark)
115g butter
half a cup of caster sugar
2 eggs
3 tbsps plain flour

Break the chocolate up in a bowl with the butter. Put in the microwave on defrost for 6 minutes. Stir to combine.

















While the chocolate and butter are melting, butter some ramekins. The recipe says 4 but I filled 6. These are left over from when we bought some Gu desserts.




In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar and sugar. I used my hand whisk at this point.


Combine all the ingredients and divide equally between the ramekins.














Bake in an oven pre heated to 200 degrees centigrade for 20 minutes. I think if I had baked them for a slightly shorter period of time they would have been more gooey. Regardless, they were delicious.


This was a really easy dessert to make and saved me money as well - it would have cost us at least £15 for dessert in the pub. Not many steps to something so tasty.


9 comments:

  1. looks amazing! thanks so much for sharing on craft schooling sunday!

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  2. Those look sooooooooooooooo good! Visiting from Our Delightful Home.

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  3. I love anything chocolate, so these chocolate pots are right up my street! I really love how you can make them into individual portions. I'd be thrilled if you'd come on over to Pink Recipe Box and link up at Creative Wednesdays: http://pinkrecipebox.com/creative-wednesdays-with-pink-recipe-box-2/

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  4. Yum, you are invited to share this with Show Your Stuff:

    http://www.treasuresmadefromyarn.com/2013/07/show-your-stuff.html

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  5. They look so yummy! Thanks for sharing with us this week at Monday Funday!

    Take care,

    Trish

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  6. Hi Leah! Thanks so much for linking up to Thriving on Thursdays last week. I love chocolate pots and always find it hard to get it runny inside. I'm going to give your recipe a try. I'm featuring this recipe at tomorrow's party. Hope to see you again.

    Anne xx

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  7. An exchange student....how fun! And your Chocolate Pots look divine! Thanks for sharing at Pinworthy Projects.

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