t’s no secret that I love anything from Max Brenner, particularly his chocolate souffles {which are actually little cakes}. So, when he released a cookbook, I needed it. Luckily for me, I got one for Christmas.
I figured Valentine’s Day was a great day for making the souffle. Here is the recipe. It makes 15 cakes.
Ganache Filling
1/2 cup heavy cream
7 ounces whole large marshmallows, plus 10 marshmallows finely diced {around 200g}
7.5 ounces white chocolate, roughly chopped
Souffles
12 ounces dark chocolate roughly chopped
3 sticks unsalted butter {1.5 cups}
1.5 cups sugar
8 large eggs, room temperature
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
15 ramekins
1. Make the ganache filling. In a small saucepan, cook the cream and the marshmallows until they melt. Pour over the white chocolate in a bowl. Stir until it has all melted together.
2. Pour into silicon moulds {I used an Ikea heart ice tray being the romantic that I am} and freeze for a minimum of four hours.
3. Prepare the souffles. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius. Melt the dark chocolate, add the butter and sugar. Stir until well combined. Add eggs one at a time and whisk in. Set aside.
4. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Whisk with the chocolate mix until smooth. Divide among 15 baking cups, filling to 3/4 full.
5. Put one frozen marshmallow ganache piece in the middle of each baking cup. Bake until the souffles rise and the insides are still molten – about 9 minutes. Serve immediately.
I halved this recipe because we didn’t really need 15 of them. Although my family came around and gobbled them up. I think they have a nose for baked goods. As soon as they were out of the oven, they came running. A big thumbs up from all. xx
MAX BRENNER HAS A COOKBOOK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?! How I wasn't aware of this is beyond me.
Craving now! (And off to Google Max Brenner……..)
YUMM.
I was going to say '15 cakes!? what time can you deliver?' lol
yum yum thanks for sharing x
Ooh I had no idea that book even existed.
You have just given me the perfect present for my bestie.
I can see another cookbook being added to my ever growing collection! How delicious does this recipe look!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
A friend of mine bought me the book for Christmas as well because, like you, I am addicted to the souffle's 🙂 I love their white chocolate chai too.
I too love Max Brenners and miss it so much now that I am in WA. I will have to seek out a copy of the cookbook as the souffle sounds divine! (and I don't think I will share!!!)
If you keep posting stuff like this I'm going to have to stop reading your blog… I'm trying to lose weight over here!
Thanks so much for the lovely message on my blog on Friday! I was really tired and reading that made my evening. To be honest though I don't feel that special doing it… it's so much fun I almost feel guilty getting paid.
And I'm glad you haven't done a 'tell me… exercise' post in a few days… I've been naughty! And I like to please you say I've been exercising!
Ask me tomorrow…
xxx
Oh good lord I can almost feel my hips expanding at the sight of this recipe. Why does chocolate taste so good but it's SO bad! And I thought the 'quick and dirty' souffle was temptation enough!
Max Brenners does a cookbook??!!
I've got to get one. May have to hit the Melb Central store sometime.