Chocolate Marquise Alongside Fresh Ruby Sauce

A Chocolate Marquise is a rich, dense, mousse-like dessert that has been chilled inward a mold.  As if that’s non enough, become ahead in addition to top it alongside a fresh cherry sauce spiked alongside cherry brandy.  What tin I say?  I yet had a bunch of fresh cherries inward the fridge in addition to didn’t desire to waste materials them!  Really I did.

This mousse-like cake is thus smoothen in addition to has a perfect sum of fluff.  I absolutely honey the texture.  Chilled inward a drinking glass loaf pan, this tin live made upwardly to 4 days inward advance.  

While non overly sweet, it is a dream-come-true for the serious chocolate lover.  

The cherry sauce tin too live made inward advance.  Warm the sauce slightly earlier serving in addition to enjoy.  It is certain to print those lucky plenty to remain for dessert!

Chocolate Marquise alongside Fresh Cherry Sauce

(Adapted from June 2003 Bon Appetit recipe past times Carole Bloom)

For the Marquise:

10 ounces proficient character bittersweet chocolate chips (Ghirardelli)

3/4 loving cup unsalted butter, room temperature, divided

1/2 loving cup sugar

2 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder, sifted

4 large egg yolks

1/4 loving cup water

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 loving cup chilled whipping cream

For the Fresh Cherry Sauce:

2 cups fresh cherries, pitted in addition to halved

1/2 loving cup water

1/3 loving cup sugar

1 tablespoon kirsch (clear cherry brandy)

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel

Marquise

• Butter a drinking glass loaf pan 8.5 x 5.5.  Line the dish alongside plastic wrap, allowing it to mantle downward over the side.  Take aid to larn inward every bit smoothen every bit possible.  

• Add the chocolate chips to a medium bowl laid over a pan of gently simmering water.  Stir the chips until they are completely melted.  Remove the chocolate in addition to proceed warm.  Turn downward the rut nether the H2O in addition to proceed it warm.  You’ll bespeak it over again inward a few steps.

• In some other medium bowl, crunch 1/2 loving cup of butter until low-cal in addition to fluffy.  Add 1/4 loving cup of saccharide in addition to the sifted cocoa powder.  Blend until smooth.

• In a large metallic bowl, whisk the eggs yolks, 1/4 loving cup of water, 1/4 loving cup butter in addition to 1/4 loving cup of sugar.  Set the bowl over the saucepan of gently simmering H2O (don’t permit it touching on the water) in addition to whisk the egg mixture constantly until a candy thermometer reads 160 degrees, most 5-6 minutes.  Remove the egg mixture from over the H2O in addition to crunch alongside an electrical mixer until it is thick in addition to cool, most v minutes.  Beat inward the cocoa mixture in addition to crimp inward the warm chocolate in addition to vanilla.  

• In a form build clean bowl crunch the whipping cream until soft peaks form.  Gently crimp the cream into the chocolate mixture.  Do no over-beat.  Spoon the mousse into the prepared pan in addition to encompass in addition to chill until theatre (about 4 hours).  

Sauce

Stir all ingredients together inward a medium saucepan.  Heat on medium until the sauce boils in addition to thickens, most v minutes.  Cool slightly earlier serving.  The sauce may live made ahead in addition to warmed slightly earlier serving. 

To serve

Remove the marquise from the fridge in addition to allow it to sit down at room temperature for v minutes.  Turn the marquise out onto a platter in addition to pare of plastic wrap. Cut into 1 inch thick slices in addition to spoon warm cherry sauce on top.  Serve immediately.

This may audio similar a lot of steps merely it comes together fast.  Just accept everything cook in addition to you’ll live surprised how slowly it is.  

What a blur this weekend was.  I don’t fifty-fifty accept kids inward schoolhouse anymore merely experience thus busy!  I did larn to babysit all twenty-four hr catamenia sun for my vi calendar month onetime grandson.  Poor petty man child is teething in addition to it’s been a long fourth dimension since I entertained anyone that historic catamenia for ix hours.  Gosh I experience old!  We both survived alongside the help of my married adult man in addition to 3 crazy dogs.  This must live why God intended immature people to accept children!  How did I always compass anything when both my children were young?  Who knows – that was a long fourth dimension ago!

Thanks thus much for stopping by!  I promise you lot accept a wonderful week.

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com