Chocolate Terrine
- 200 grams Chocolate (66% cacao)
- 50 grams Double cream
- 3 Egg yolk
- 3 Egg whites
- 80 grams Powdered sugar
- 30 grams Corn starch (if available)
- Use chocolate with a high cacao percentage.
- I use Valrhona's 'Caraibe' chocolate.
- Prepping: Preheat the oven to 110C.
- Fill a kettle and bring it to a boil.
- Line the pound tin with parchment paper.
- Prepping 2: Cover the outsides of the pound tin with a sheet of aluminum foil to avoid the hot water from leaking inside.
- Chop up the chocolate and melt it in a bowl over a 50C hot water bath.
- Add 1/3 of the sugar and the cream into the egg yolks and mix them well.
- Make a meringue.
- Sift the powdered sugar into the egg whites in 3 batches.
- Whip until you can form peaks.
- When the chocolate melts, add the egg yolk mixture from Step 4, and mix well with a whisk.
- Mix more like you're grinding rather than whipping.
- The chocolate will become pretty heavy.
- Add the corn starch and mix until smooth.
- Add the meringue in 2 batches.
- The chocolate will still be heavy with the first addition, so mix them well with a whisk.
- Use a rubber spatula for the second addition of the meringue.
- Fold in using a cutting motion until the mixture is glossy and the meringue melds well.
- Pour the mixture into the pound tin.
- Pour hot water into the baking pan from the preheated oven, filling up to about 1cm from the bottom.
- Place the pound tin in the hot water, and bake for 120 minutes.
- My baking tray isn't deep enough, so I use a relatively large enamel flat container to make the hot water bath.
- Take the terrine out of the oven.
- When it cools down, cover it with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge before removing from the pound tin.
- Slightly warm the knife for best results when slicing the terrine.
- For best results, heat the knife well and wipe it clean with each slice.
- Take care not to burn yourself!
chocolate, cream, egg yolk, egg whites, powdered sugar, starch
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/151035-chocolate-terrine (may not work)