Poire Belle Hélène Chocolate Lava Cake
Poire Belle Hélène Chocolate Lava Cake

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Poire Belle Hélène is an indulgent dessert, made of poached pears with dark chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream. Here's the recipe to make it! Maybe it's because I was in Paris, the city of romance, that I think Poire Belle Hélène is one of the most romantic desserts.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have poire belle hélène chocolate lava cake using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Poire Belle Hélène Chocolate Lava Cake:
  1. Take Poached Pear:
  2. Take 750 ml Water,
  3. Prepare 150 g Light Muscovado Sugar,
  4. Make ready 1 Cinnamon Stick,
  5. Get 2 Star Anise,
  6. Prepare 1 Cloves,
  7. Make ready 1 Lemongrass White Part Only Lightly Bruised,
  8. Make ready 2 TBSP Spiced Rum,
  9. Make ready Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
  10. Make ready 1/2 Inch Ginger Grated,
  11. Take 4 Pears Preferably Bosc,
  12. Prepare Lava Cake:
  13. Get 75 g High Quality Dark Chocolate Preferably Valrhona,
  14. Take 56 g Unsalted Butter Softened,
  15. Get 1 Egg,
  16. Make ready 50 g Demerara Sugar,
  17. Prepare 25 g Corn Flour,
  18. Take Pinch Sea Salt,
  19. Take 2 TBSP Nature's Superfoods' Raw Cacao Nibs,
  20. Prepare Edible Gold Dust, For Garnishing
  21. Make ready Edible Rose Petals, For Garnishing
  22. Get Fresh Mint, For Garnishing

In this video, you'll see how to make delicious chocolate lava cakes served in individual ramekins. They're also called baked chocolate pudding because the cake is firm on the outside and molten chocolate on the inside. Remove cake ramekins from oven and place on a cooling rack. Run a knife around the edge of each cake to help release them from their ramekin.

Instructions to make Poire Belle Hélène Chocolate Lava Cake:
  1. Prepare the poached pears. - - In a sauce pot over medium heat, add water, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, lemongrass, rum, orange zest and ginger. - - Stir to combine well and until the sugar has dissolved. Stir, stir, stir.
  2. Turn the heat down to low and simmer for about 30 mins. - - Remove from heat. - - Peel the pears using a peeler. - - Using a melon baller, carefully remove the bottom of the pears.
  3. Using a small sharp knife to scrape out all the seeds carefully. - - Place the pears immediately into the syrup or it will oxidize very quickly. - - Fill the pot with more water, just enuff to submerge the pears and only if necessary. - - Return the pot back onto the heat.
  4. Cut out a round parchment paper to cover the pears and the syrup. - - This will ensure even coloring of the pears. - - Bring it up to a simmer and turn the heat down to low. - - Cover and poach the pears for 20 to 30 mins. - - Remove from heat and let chill in the fridge overnight, with the parchment paper still in tact.
  5. Prepare the lava cakes. - - Preheat oven to 230 degree celsius or 450 fahrenheit. - - On a double boiler, add chocolate.
  6. Once chocolate starts to melt, remove from heat and add butter. - - Stir until well combined and the butter has melted as well. - - Set aside. - - In another bowl, add egg and sugar.
  7. Whisk to combine well. - - Gradually add the warm chocolate mixture into the egg mixture 1/3 portion at a time. - - Whisk until everything is fully incorporated. - - Sieve in the corn flour.
  8. Whisk until well combined. - - Add in salt, cacao nibs and 2 TBSP of that syrup. - - You can make excellent tea with the syrup. - - Give it a final whisk.
  9. Add the chocolate batter into the ramekins. - - These lava cakes will not be able to unmold. If you would like to serve these on a serving plate, lightly grease a pastry ring with some butter and wrap the inner circumference with parchment paper. Place the pastry ring on the serving plate and pour the batter into the ring. - - Pour about 3/4 way full.
  10. Wack into the oven and bake for 8 mins. - - The edge should be hard while the middle is still soft and jiggly. - - Drain pears from the syrup.
  11. Place 1 pear into each ramekins or pastry rings. - - It is okay if there're cracks. That is the beauty of this dish. - - Wack back into the oven and bake for a further 5 mins.
  12. Remove from oven. - - Plating. - - Garnish with some rose petals and mint on the sides - - Sprinkle some gold dust over the top. - - Serve immediately.

Plate with some whipped cream, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, strawberries and blueberries. Chocolate Lava Cakes. featured in Homemade Chocolate-Filled Desserts. Chris Salicrup, Tresha Lindo & Codii Lopez. Let the lava cakes cool slightly, then invert onto plates. Dust with powdered sugar and garnish with berries.

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