Recipe: Chocolate Souffle, with Two Sauces

Chocolate Souffle Base

Ingredients:

339 g         butter
542 g         sugar
660 g         bread flour
236 g         extra brute cocoa powder

9 c         milk
432 g         yolks

Method:
1. Mix butter and sugar until sandy
2. Add sifted cocoa powder and flour
3. Scald milk, add
4. Add yolks last

See video for next step:

Sauces:

White Sauce

Ingredients:

1 part         Sour cream
1 part        Heavy whipping cream
to taste        Vanilla extract
to taste        Sugar
pinch         Salt

Method:
Combine sour cream and whipping cream in stand mixer.
Use wire whisk to beat until thicker consistency, think motor oil.
While whisking, add vanilla extract, sugar, and salt.

 

Strawberry Sauce A la Carla

Ingredients:

2 pints        Fresh Strawberries
2 Tbsp.        Corn Syrup/2.
3 Tbsp.        Honey

Method:
Combine all in Blender.
Reduce on Stovetop until proper consistency – like a loose pancake batter.
Keep in mind that a warm sauce is runnier than the same sauce at a cooler temp.

 

 

 

 

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