Name: Easy Chocolate Fondant Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Ingredients: 100 g Dark chocolate; 5 tablespoons 75g Butter; 2 Eggs; 3½ tablespoons 43g Sugar; 1/4 cup 32g All-purpose flour; Pinch Salt; Powdered sugar

Easy Chocolate Fondant Recipe

By David | Dec 25, 2021August 19, 2024

3.50 from 53 votes

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Quick and easy chocolate fondant recipe. This classic chocolate fondant requires only 5 ingredients that you probably have in your panty. Fondant au chocolat is a famous French dessert that is known all around the world.

A close-up of a chocolate lava cake on a white plate. The cake is dusted with powdered sugar, and its molten chocolate center is oozing out, showing a rich and gooey texture. The background is slightly blurred, focusing attention on the dessert.

Easy Chocolate Fondant Recipe

3.50 from 53 votes

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Prep Time 30

WORK TIME 10

DIFFICULTY Easy

Cuisine French

Servings yields

Ingredients

100 g Dark chocolate
5 tablespoons 75g Butter
2 Eggs
3½ tablespoons 43g Sugar
¼ cup 32g All-purpose flour
Pinch Salt
Powdered sugar

Instructions

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Butter three 6oz moulds or ramekins, dust with cocoa powder and place in the fridge for about 10 minutes.
2. Chop the chocolate and place in a heatproof bowl, add butter. Set the bowl over a double boiler (pot with simmering water). Melt the chocolate. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
3. In a separate bowl whisk eggs, sugar and salt, until light, pale and thick.
4. Slowly pour melted chocolate into the egg mixture.
5. Sift in flout and whisk just until incorporated.
6. Pour into prepared molds. Fill about 80%.
7. Bake for 10-11 minutes.
8. You can eat it straight from the mold or invert onto a plate, dust with powdered sugar and serve.