This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a French childhood favourite dessert – a pot de crème. Dorie’s version was a tea-flavoured one but she included some “bonnes idées” for different flavours, including chocolate. Since I have the gorgeous Ruby Couverture Callets, received from the kind folks at Callebaut, (check out these pretty chocolate chip cookies!), I wanted to play with those in this recipe. Sometimes I find a pot de crème a little too sweet and I figured the tang of this chocolate would work well here.
The Ruby couverture is subtle – it’s not as sweet as it looks – so I was a bit dubious at the ratio of chocolate to liquid (3 cups of liquid to 4oz chocolate seemed like not enough to “make a ganache” as per the instructions). Also, for some reason, the chocolate version of the pots de crème used one less egg than the other flavours so I was hoping the pot de crème would set ok. The tiny (1/2 cup ramekins) took nearly 50 minutes to cook enough for me to pull them from the oven so I was hoping that they would be ok (they were still runnier than I would have wanted when I took then out but I didn’t want to overcook them). After a night in the fridge, they were perfect (phew!). As with most pots de crème, a skin had formed on the top 🙁 And the colour of the Ruby chocolate hadn’t really transferred – they were more “golden” than pink. So I added some chopped Ruby chips on top for some colour and texture.
I LOVED these. Just sweet enough to satisfy a sweet craving after dinner. Smooth and creamy with the texture and extra tang of the Ruby chips making it super satisfying. My goal? to create a dessert like this where the colour of the Ruby transfers to the finished dish!
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Pots de Crème on page 368 of Baking Chez Moi.
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I wondered how to use this chocolate – it sounds like it is quite versatile. I rather like the golden colour but pink would be fun; one wouldn’t expect a chocolate flavour with a pink dessrt.
You have made a new dessert. Glad these were a success for you. They sure look inviting.
You have me curious about the ruby chocolate haha
cool! i got a tiny sample of the ruby chocolate at a good conference i went to last year, but it wasn’t really enough to play around with so i just ate it. haha. bet it was good in these.
I loved these too! Using the ruby chocolate was a great idea, and it’s a shame that the gorgeous colour didn’t transfer to the dessert.