Chocolate and Coffee Cream Cups

Making desserts at home is rewarding, besides being delicious and, I must admit, really addictive! Even more so when you discover how easy it can be to make recipes as delicious as the one Virginia, author of the Sweet&Sour blog, brings us today. This chocolate cream dessert will delight you.

Do you remember those chocolate creams from our childhood? With this recipe you'll enjoy that pleasure again, but for adult palates, since we'll add a touch of coffee and a splash of liqueur to the chocolate, if you feel like it.

That said, this cream is infinitely better, more natural and less cloying than the store-bought ones and, above all, you know exactly what each of these little jars contains.

About a year ago, thanks to Claudia & Julia, I got the yogurtera Tefal Multidelices, and I can confess there is no laziness when it comes to having not only fresh and light yogurts in the fridge and very natural creamy cheeses, but also small desserts like these, which give me my weekly treat.
It's a pleasure to come home from the beach or the pool, or simply after a hot day at work, and have a cool craving ready by just opening the fridge!!!

In this case the treat is a chocolate and coffee cream, which you can have ready in just 25 minutes without really getting into the kitchen to dirty dishes and heat up.

Here, the marriage of chocolate and coffee is a total success; if you top it with a little whipped cream and accompany it with some red berries, you'll also turn it into a dessert that, effortlessly, will be a hit at any gathering. That said, choose quality chocolate: it makes a difference!
How do we make it? Let's get to the recipe:

INGREDIENTS (For 6 150 ml jars)

• 120 gr. of quality Chocolate 52% mg
• 30 gr. of Butter at room temperature
• 350 ml of whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon of instant coffee
• 1 tablespoon of Rum, Whiskey or the liqueur of your choice (optional)
• 2 egg yolks "L" at room temperature
• 30 gr. of icing sugar
• 20 gr. of quality cocoa powder, sifted

To decorate:

• 200 ml of Cream 35% m.g
• Chocolate shavings
• Red Berries

PREPARATION

1. Cut the butter into small cubes and set aside.
2. Chop the chocolate using a knife and place it in a bowl. Set aside.
3. In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, warm half of the cream with the tablespoon of instant coffee and the liqueur (if you want to use it - I do not recommend doing so if children will enjoy these). Let the coffee dissolve and the cream heat through.
4. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and add the butter. Let rest for a couple of minutes so the heat can melt the chocolate and the butter, before mixing well with a rubber spatula to obtain a homogeneous cream. Set aside.
5. In another bowl mix the yolks with the sugar and the sifted cocoa, and lightly whisk with the electric mixer until they have increased by about 50% of their initial volume. They don't have to double in volume, only about 50%, just enough to give a bit of volume and make the cream smoother.
6. Mix this preparation with the chocolate mixture until you obtain a homogeneous cream. Add the remaining cream and mix again.
7. Divide the cream into the jars of the yogurtera Tefal Multidelices, filling them up to 3/4 full.
8. Fill the base of the yogurtera Tefal Multidelices with water up to the maximum indicated limit. Place the jars inside without their lids. Plug in, choose the desserts option and set the time to 25 minutes. Press Ok and wait. The machine will beep when the time has finished.
9. Unplug. Let cool to room temperature. Cover with their lids and refrigerate. Ready to enjoy chilled at any time.
10. When serving, whip the cream, sprinkle with grated chocolate or chocolate shavings and decorate with red berries.
11. Simply delicious. One of those desserts that take you back to childhood.

Tips:
*If children will be enjoying the cream and you don't want coffee or liqueur, simply omit them from the recipe.

Enjoy.
Virginia.