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DESSERT: Chocolate Cocottes with Molten Hearts

Ingredients

- 7 oz bittersweet chocolate
- 6 oz (1 1/2 sticks) butter
- 4 large egg yolks
- 4 large whole eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup unbleached flour
- zest of 1 orange

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Butter and flour 4 mini cocottes, tapping out any excess flour.
In the top of a double boiler, melt chocolate and butter together. Stir until well blended, then let cool to warm room temperature.
In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks and whole eggs together, then beat in the sugar a tablespoon at a time. Continue beating until the eggs have tripled in volume, and are a pale yellow color. This may take upwards of 15 minutes, 4 minutes with an electric whisk!
Fold the beaten eggs into the chocolate and gently blend the two.
Sprinkle the flour into the cooled chocolate mixture, little by little and continue mixing until well blended.
Add the orange zest. Save a few strands for decoration.
Divide the batter into the flour prepared cocottes and place, uncovered, in the oven on a baking sheet.
Bake for 12-15 minutes. When done, the batter will have puffed up. When you move the baking sheet slightly, it won\'t jiggle in the center.
Dust the tops with powdered cocoa and garnish with reserved orange zest. Serve immediately.

Recipe Courtesy of Le Creuset Mini-Cocotte by Lissa Streeter.

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