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Souffle: Bread Pudding Souffles with Chocolate Bourbon Sauce

Source of Recipe

Simone @CMC


Recipe Introduction

This dessert can be made ahead, then refrigerated, and reheated at serving time in a regular oven, a microwave oven, or on top of the stove in a skillet pan, with the molds surrounded by water.

List of Ingredients

Choc. Sauce-

1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon reserved (see down below)
2 tablespoons of sgr.
1 teaspoon of cornstarch dissolved in the reserved "1 tablespoon" of milk
3 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, cut into one-inch. pieces
1 tablespoon of bourbon or 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Souffles-

1/2 cup of milk
3 thin slices of bread (2 ounces)
2 tablespoons of golden raisins
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
2 eggs (separated)
1&1/2 teaspoons of unsalted butter [buttering the molds]
4 tablespoons of seedless raspberry jam




Recipe

For the choc. sauce: Place the cup of milk and sugar in a saucepan, and bring the mixture to boiling. Then remove the pan from the heat, and stir into the dissolved cornstarch. Proceed to add the chocolate pieces, & stir the mixture occasionally until the chocolate is dissolved.

Cool to room temp., and stir in the bourbon or the vanilla. [If making the sauce ahead, refrigerate it, covered, and reheat to room temperature in a microwave oven at serving time].

For the soufflés: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Place the 1/2 cup of milk in a bowl, add the bread pieces, and let the bread soak in the milk until it is well saturated, soft, and mushy. Add the raisins, maple syrup, and egg yolks, and stir until the mixture is well homogenized but the bread pieces are still visible.
Beat the egg whites in a bowl until they form soft peaks. (They should not be too firm.) Mix the whites into the bread mixture.

Butter 4 individual 1-cup molds. Place 1 tablespoon of the jam in the bottom of each individual mold, and divide bread mixture among the molds. Arrange the molds on a tray, and cook them in the 350-degree oven for about 20 minutes, until they are set but not completely firm. Remove from the molds and serve lukewarm with the chocolate sauce.

Total time: about 45 min.
Yield: 4 servings.
Nutrition info per serving: 392 calories, 10g protein, 15g fat, 8g saturated fat, 123 mg cholesterol, 202 mg sodium, 57g carbohydrates, 2g of dietary fiber