food
Chocolate Flower Pots
This is a blooming lovely way to present a chocolate gift!
food
Chocolate Flower Pots
This is a blooming lovely way to present a chocolate gift!
Supplies
- Soil
- 50 grams Caster Sugar
- 50 grams Ground Almonds
- 30 grams Plain Flour
- 20 grams Cocoa Powder
- 3 grams Salt
- 35 grams Melted Butter, Cooled
- Mint Chocolate Mousse
- 150 grams 70 percent Chocolate
- 80 milliliters Double Cream
- 5 Egg Yolks
- 5 Egg White
- 50 grams Caster Sugar
- Handful of Fresh Mint
- Small Edible Flower to Garnish
Steps
- To make the chocolate mousse, melt the chocolate over a bain marie and heat the double cream until it is just boiled.
- Add the egg yolks to the mixture and stir together to combine. Set to one side.
- Muddle your sugar and chopped mint leaves together until you have a green coloured sugar.
- Whisk the egg whites and slowly add the mint sugar until you have stiff peaks.
- Fold the whipped egg whites into the chocolate mixture in thirds until everything is combined and there is no meringue visible.
- Pour the chocolate mousse into individual plant pots and chill in the fridge for a few hours or overnight.
- To make the soil, sieve all the dry ingredients together and then add this to a stand mixer, pour in the melted butter and beat for 3-4 minutes.
- Bake for 15m at 160c.
- Allow to cool and then blitz to a fine crumb in a food processor.
- To assemble, sprinkle the soil on top of the chilled chocolate mousse and top with edible flowers.