Dark chocolate fondants

I have recently discovered fondants as a dessert. Fondants are small cake like desserts, however, when you cut into them with a spoon they have a lovely gooey, runny centre that just oozes out onto your plate. They are also incredibly easy to make.

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I used normal cake cases, but apparently it is possible to get silicon or metal moulds for this purpose. The recommended mould size is 7cm diameter by 4.5cm depth (my cake cases were a bit smaller and so instead of 4 fondants I ended up with 6). If you use moulds you should grease them and gently dust with flour and place them on a baking tray with greaseproof paper on. If you use paper cases then a muffin tray is fine.

You could probably replace the dark chocolate with milk or even white chocolate or have dark chocolate fondants with white chocolate centres...

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 50 g brown sugar (fariinisokeri)
• 1 dessert spoon (12ml or 2 tsp) plain flour
• 1 dessert spoon (12ml or 2 tsp) cornflour
• 140 g dark chocolate, obviously around 70% cocoa solids is always good :) broken into small pieces
• 2 squares of chocolate per fondant (approx another 70g more chocolate)
• 110 g butter
• 3 dessert spoons (36ml or 6 tsp) whipping cream

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200C (or 180C for fan assisted oven)
2. Beat eggs and sugar
3. Sieve flours together and beat into eggs and sugar
4. Melt chocolate, butter and cream over bowl with simmering water (bain-marie method)
5. Pour the chocolate, cream and butter mix in with eggs and flour and beat until smooth and well mixed
6. Leave in fridge for 1 hour to stiffen up
7. Pour into each paper case until the case is half filled
8. Place 2 pieces of chocolate per fondant onto the mixture in each mould
9. Top up mould until it is 2/3 filled
10. Put in oven and cook for 8-10 minutes. The recommended time was 6-7 minutes but I found this was still too gooey even for the smaller cake cases, at least with my oven. If the fondants look shiny on top then they will still need 3 or 4 more minutes.
11. Turn out immediately and serve

These are very rich, so we found that one was more than enough!

Hyvää ruokahalua!

EDIT Have just discovered that if you make too many you can keep them in the fridge and warm them in the microwave for about 30-45 seconds before serving. I also fed these to a friend earlier and she loved them!