Chocolate Soufflé 🥚 🍫

Impress your Valentine any day of the Year

Just in time for Valentine’s Day… giving you the one recipe that I would recommend for anyone to “wow” their someone special.

Soufflé is a classic preparation from the French canon of cooking. It is impressive, dramatic and, most importantly, delicious.

The preparation has largely fallen out of popularity. Not sure why, to be honest. While soufflés have a reputation for being fussy, finicky and difficult; nothing could be further from the truth.

The sad truth is that what you get at most restaurants is a “cheater” soufflé. Meaning, the cook shapes the batter into an inverse cone above the rim of the ramekin so the souffle looks taller than it actually is.

A proper soufflé, the batter is flattened in line with the top of the ramekin and only the heat and properly made egg white base is responsible for the heavenly rise yesterday (see pic below)

I’m going to give you the step-by-step for you to make amazing soufflé any day of the year.

I chose chocolate because it’s Valentine’s Day and the soufflé is a magical vehicle taking eaters to Chocolate Valhalla. You get the intensity of cacao in a pillow from heaven. 🙌

For discussion at a later date: I find savory soufflés to be equally enjoyable. Any direct, rich or intense flavor can be taken to the next level with soufflé (think goat cheese, blue cheese, any stronger tasting cheese).

Let’s bake 🙌