Chocolate Souffle
I’ve been craving for Max Brenner’s chocolate souffle for 2 weeks.. and yesterday just when I got the chance to hang out with my cell mates @ the oh-so-popular so called chocolate sanctuary, they piss me off.. LOL. ok, they made me upset. so upset… Oh well, they just accidentally voided my choc souffle order….. and it was the last order.. so yeah, I didn’t get my choc souffle. I got a perfect excuse for why I’m so upset yesterday
1. a 3 (the 3G phone service provider) customer service personnel managed to crack in to my nerve, make me annoyed, and make leave me with the tendency to be grumpy for the rest of the day
2. I’m on my pink cycle period. LOL. pathetic excuse, but true.
3. I’m stress!!!! too many assignment, too little time, yet got no initiative and got massive procrastination spirit crawling within me. LOL… *excuse me for those bad phrase of words, I’m not good at expressing my thoughts into words*
So yeah, I got soooo upsetttt to Max Brenner… @ melb central, still love the one the one @ QV though, and I’m still craving for a choc souffle, so I decided to make one tonight!! I saw one of the chef made it on yesterday’s Ready Steady Cook, he managed to made one in just 20 minutes… ready to serve… So I thought, I’d give it a go. I have all the ingredients anyway.. way almost all of them, I substitute some of them anyway… I managed to find the recipe from yesterday’s ready steady cook, and the the souffle’s recipe happen to be so simple… too simple I have to say. I Google for some more chocolate souffle recipe, but I some of them are more complicated, and I don’t want to make a complicated and sophisticated souffle on my first try… at least not at this time of the day (its 11.30 pm when I decided to make one)… So, here’s the simple souffle recipe:
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Chocolate Souffle
You need:
6 eggs (room temp)
250g unsalted butter ( room temp)
175g caster sugar
150g dark couverture chocolate
Method:
Grease souffle moulds with butter and sugar.
Set aside.
Heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Whisk butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar and whisk until dissolved. Add egg yolks one at a time incorporating well.
Melt choc and add to mix.
Whisk whites to soft peak and fold gently into mix.
Pour into prepared moulds and bake for about 10mins. Reduce temp to 180 and bake a few more minutes.
Dust with icing sugar.
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Since I’m the only one who’s going to eat the souffle (and my housemate probably want to have one), I only made half a recipe… and I managed to get 2 small ramekins of souffle…. I have to say, my first experience of making souffle is a big success!! I managed to get my souffle to rise.. but the taste… the taste is disappointing. LOL… I have high expectations!! It’s not sweet enough!! I concluded that it’s because I change the castor/caster sugar with brown sugar (I dun have caster sugar), I don’t have cooking scale to weight the ingredients… so… too small amount of chocolate… Well, next time I’ll add more glorifying ingredients… (rum, Framboise, orange juice, Grand Marnier or water, and flour!!, and made some kind of sauce, maybe custard or chocolate sauce to go with the souffle, yum!) Better luck next time.
baking souffle…
*the souffle inside the oven & when I just get it out of the oven
note: you should not open your oven while you’re baking souffle, cuz change in temperature will make the souffle won’t be able to rise. Trust yourself, and trust your oven.. lol
*few seconds after I get them out of the oven
*few seconds later … LOLz… yup, that’s my tiny spoon, scooping the sinful souffle
*the other souffle (which I haven’t eat), some minutes later… (no it did not explode….), I add some melted choc on top of it, and dust it with icing sugar. yumm
pheew… I really wanna try to bake another one anytime soon.. but got lots of assignment to finish… looks like I gotta wait for another couple more weeks before I bake another one. sigh…
PS: pardon me for the blurry images.. I’m no photographer and got no digicam.. pics were taken w/ my mobile
Correction: The souffle does taste great!! It’s not very dissapointing after all… I’ve just ate last nite’s souffle leftover… and they’re yummy!!
