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Chocolate Soup Ingredients:
72% cacao organic bittersweet chocolate, raw sugar, peppercorn blend, star anise, fancy cardamom pods, allspice berry and crushed red peppers. No added salt, preservatives or MSG.
Allergen Information: Gluten-Free
Additions:
2 cups heavy cream, divided
1/2 cup milk (2% or other)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons caramel or butterscotch sauce
Chocolate Soup Recipe Directions:
Pour contents of peppered spice packet into small skillet. Toast, shaking and tossing about 3 minutes until spices give off a spicy fragrance. Remove from heat and pour spices into “infuser” bag, close the drawstring tightly, and knot.
Heat 1 1/2 cups of the cream with 1/2 cup milk, and sugar to just-below-a-simmer over medium low heat. Drop in the infuser bag of spices. Stir and allow spices to steep for 25 minutes. Remove and discard spice bag.
Meanwhile, place chocolate in top of a double boiler. Over low heat melt chocolate, careful not to allow any other liquid or moisture into the melting chocolate. Stir the melted chocolate into the spiced milk with a whisk until well blended and smooth.
Whip the additional 1/2 cup heavy cream in a small bowl with electric mixer into soft peaks. Slowly drizzle in the caramel sauce and blend. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Ladle hot chocolate soup into ramekins, demitasse cups, or other small bowls. Add a dollop of the whipped cream and sprinkle the caramelized sugar crystals from the packet on top of each serving.
(If making the chocolate soup ahead, allow to cool and slowly reheat stirring continuously.)
Recipe makes 2 1/4 cups, 6 3-ounce or 9 2-ounce servings.
Inventive Recipe Variations:
- Pour chocolate soup over pound cake or angel food cake and top with fresh raspberries.
- Use chocolate soup as a fondue with fruit or cake.
- Refrigerate, then whip and spread chocolate soup on chocolate cake as a ganache.
80% of the world’s cacao bean supply is grown and harvested along the Ivory Coast of Africa. Chai spices originated in India in recipes for flavorful teas served in warm clay cups. We think the combination of chocolate and chai makes an exotic and luscious soup for dessert! Notice, if you sample the chocolate alone, that it has absorbed some of the chai spices and makes a delicious snack.
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