Name: Chocolate and pretzels
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 200 gm each dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) and chocolate (55% cocoa solids), finely chopped; 200 ml pouring cream; 3 egg yolks; 25 gm salted pretzels; To serve: sea salt flakes

Chocolate and pretzels

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for chocolate and pretzels.

Serves 10

Prep

20M

Cook

10M

Total

30M

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You’ll need to begin this recipe a day ahead.

Ingredients

200 gm each dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) and chocolate (55% cocoa solids), finely chopped

200 ml pouring cream

3 egg yolks

25 gm salted pretzels

To serve: sea salt flakes

Method

Main

1.Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and set aside. Bring cream to the boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat, add to chocolate, stir until smooth and set aside.

2.Whisk yolks and 40ml hot water in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water until pale and frothy (2-3 minutes). Transfer to an electric mixer, fold in chocolate mixture and whisk until cooled to room temperature (2-3 minutes). Spoon into a 7cm x 28cm cake tin lined with baking paper (see note), smooth top, scatter with pretzels and refrigerate to chill (overnight).

3.Cut into fingers with a hot wet knife, scatter with sea salt flakes and serve.