Pots Au Chocolat

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So glad you stopped by!  I hope you are now ready for a dessert recipe.  It took me about a month after Christmas to get in the dessert making mood again.  These Pots Au Chocolat are sure to please as they are all about chocolate gooiness, all about speed, and all about sure success.

Tati, my 15-year old, made these for dessert the other day.

The pots waiting to be baked.

 

I first tasted Pots Au Chocolat at a church women's get together.  One of the ladies had just had a French chef come to her home and teach her how to make some French recipes, including how to make Pots Au Chocolat. That night she demonstrated how to make Pots Au Chocolat.   This was many years ago and I was intimidated by the "Frenchiness" of this recipe.  A while later I went to a Chinese dinner at my sister Jacqueline's home and we overindulged by eating both her Hot Lave Cakes AND her Mango ice cream balls, beautifully plated.  I use my sister Jacqueline's recipe today-- she calls them Hot Lava Cakes and I call them Pots Au Chocolat.   Let me make this clear, this recipe is basically a no-fail recipe -- once you and your oven have an understanding.  The first time you make these, be careful about the cooking time.  You are looking for a product that is runny in the middle. If you bake it too  little, you will get an extra runny middle.  If you bake it too long, you will not get a runny middle.

My daughter chose to make these with milk chocolate chips; we both agreed that from now on we would always used semi-sweet chips.

This is how they should look when they come out of the oven.  If you use semi-sweet chips, your pots will be darker.

Recipe for Pots Au Chocolat

1 cup semi-sweet chocolat chips

10 tablespoons butter

3 large eggs

3 yolks from large eggs

1-1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup flour

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  Melt the chocolate chips and the butter in the microwave for about one minute.  In another bowl, mix the eggs and egg yolks, then add to chocolate mixture.  Mix in powdered sugar.  Then add flour.  Butter 6 (6-ounce) ramekins.  Fill each wth about 1/2 cup batter.  Place ramekins on a cookie sheet.  Bake in a 450 degree oven for about 12-1/2 minutes.  At this point, you can either serve the dessert in the ramekins (as we did) , or you can invert the ramekins and serve the dessert on a plate. Test, to make sure the Pots Au Chocolat are done by, running a knife around the edge of the ramekin and inverting the cake on a plate.  The center should be runny, but the cake should hold up on the plate.  If done, take all cakes out of the oven.  Serve warm  with raspberry sauce and whipped cream or ice cream.

Notes:  Instead of making a raspberry sauce, I usually just warm up a little bit of raspberry jam in the microwave and spoon a little bit on top of the ramekin. The ramekins I use all the time are the white ones picttured in this post.  They were from Pier 1 several years ago and were about one dollar a piece.  If you don't have ramekins, why don't you invest in some?

We also served the Pots Au Chocolat with Ice Cream and Hershey's Chocolate Syrup

I hope you try these because they are super easy to make, make up quickly, and they are fun to serve!

Thanks for dropping by Red Couch Recipes and I hope you make these Pots Au Chocolat and add a bit of "Frenchiness to your life this year.