Ta Dah!

December 20th - As you have probably gathered by now,  I am an avid Masterchef watcher. I have often wondered about chocolate fondants. Warm. Pudding. Oozing with Chocolate. Smidge of cream to go with it. Pudding heaven if you ask me. And yet the words of Greg linger in my head about "the road to Masterchef being littered with failed chocolate fondants...." Well as the end of my year is drawing to a close I decided that I needed to push the boat out and give a chocolate fondant a bash. Last week when I was away Christmas shopping I bought myself some of those professional looking moulds to make them with. I used a recipe that my son had got from the kitchen of Bridgend Hotel....scaling it down from 15 eggs to 3!!  You need to whisk the eggs and sugar for 10 minutes until it is firm while melting the chocolate and butter together. Then the whole lot was folded together. My oven cooks things really quick so I put the temperature down and cooked for 6 minutes instead of  7. Just set....but no runny chocolate. Tasted great. But not quite right. Take 2. Five minutes in the oven. Fondant perfection. Nailed it! Felt very proud!