Easy Dessert Recipes

Chocolate fondue is an easy dessert recipe that can easily be multiplied to provide for a large number of people, if your pot is big enough. Make it anytime, night or day, or even for breakfast dessert. This particular recipe comes from Chocolate for Breakfast by Barbara Passino, a collection of delicious recipes from her Oak Knoll Inn in California.

Ingredients

1/2 cup whipping cream
8 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
2 tablespoons cognac or brandy

Special equipment: A chocolate fondue pot or a ramekin set over a votive candle (like the type used to serve melted butter at a lobster bake) and small forks or skewers to spear the cake and fruit.

Arrange the pound cake and fruit on a fig leaf.

Dipping choices: Squares of orange zest pound cake, strawberries, large perfect raspberries or boysenberries, baby bananas, fresh fig halves, white nectarines, apricots. Let what’s fresh in the market and your imagination be your guide.

Directions

Bring the cream to a boil in a small saucepan.

Pour it in a bowl over the chopped chocolate. Whisk until velvety smooth. Add the cognac and pour the mixture into the ramekin.

Transfer to the fondue pot and serve immediately. Serves 2.

*Recipe adapted from Chocolate for Breakfast

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