Hot Chocolate Coffee Soufflé

This is like a hot chocolate mousse with lots of Fairtrade ingredients, very indulgent!

Author
Divine Heavenly Chocolate Recipes with a Heart by Linda Collister

Ingredients

3 x 45g Divine 70% Dark Chocolate

125ml strong black Fairtrade coffee

3 large free range eggs seperated plus 2 eggs whites

2 tablespoons of brandy

3 tablespoons Fairtrade caster sugar

Fairtrade icing sugar for dusting

1.25ml souffle dish or 4 x 300ml souffle dishes or oven-proof large coffee cups, a baking tray

Method

Brush the inside of the soufflé dish or dishes with melted butter, and sprinkle with caster sugar. Set on a baking tray. Break up the chocolate and put into a heavy-based pan with the coffee. Set over a low heat and stir with a wooden spoon, until melted. Take the pan off the heat and beat the three egg yolks into the hot mixture so they cook and thicken it. Stir in the brandy. The soufflé can be covered and kept at a cool room temperature for up to an hour at this point. Half an hour before serving, heat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.

Put the five egg whites into the food mixer and whip until stiff. Add the caster sugar and beat 20 seconds longer or until the mixture looks glossy. Gently heat the chocolate mixture until just hot to the touch then remove the pan from the heat. Stir in about a quarter of the whites just to loosen the mixture then add this mixture to the whites and carefully fold them together.

Spoon into the prepared dish (or dishes) and bake at once in the heated oven allowing 12–15 minutes for the large soufflé or 7–9 minutes for the smaller ones – the mixture should still be wobbly in the centre. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve immediately.