Dessert Recipes
White Chocolate and Orange Soufflé
This moist orange-flavored soufflé is rich with white chocolate. Offer snifters of orange liqueur to sip alongside.
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 6 ounces imported white chocolate (such as Lindt), coarsely chopped
- 4 large egg yolks, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 2 teaspoons Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur
- 3 large egg whites (room temperature)
- Pinch of cream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 ounces imported white chocolate (such as Lindt), coarsely chopped
- Powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 6 cup soufflé dish. Sprinkle dish with sugar; tap out excess.
- Heat cream and 1/4 cup sugar in heavy medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add 6 ounces of chocolate and stir until chocolate dissolves. Whisk in yolks and orange peel. Cook until mixture thickens slightly, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes; do not boil.
- Whisk in Grand Marnier. Transfer mixture to large bowl.
- Using electric mixer, beat egg whites and cream of tartar in large bowl until soft peaks form. Add 2 tablespoons
sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Mix 2 ounces chopped chocolate into warm egg yolk mixture. Fold in egg whites in 2 additions. Transfer mixture to prepared soufflé dish.
- Bake until soufflé is puffed and top is golden brown, about 35 minutes.
- Dust with powdered sugar and serve.
Attribution
Shared from the kitchen of Martin James – Copenhagen, Denmark.