Double-deck Chocolate Custards

Total Time: 6 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups whipping cream
• 3 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 ounces semisweet chocolate or 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped

Recipe

• 1 in a heavy small saucepan, combine 1 cup of the whipping cream, the milk chocolate, and 3 tablespoons of the sugar.
• 2 cook and stir over medium heat about 5 minutes or until mixture comes to a full boil and thickens (if chocolate flecks remain, use a wire whisk to beat mixture until smooth).
• 3 in a medium bowl, beat 2 of the egg yolks with a wire whisk.
• 4 gradually stir all of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks; stir in 1/2 teaspoon of the vanilla. if using glass serving containers, cool slightly.
• 5 divide chocolate mixture evenly among 8 small glasses, dishes, pot de cr�me cups, or ramekins.
• 6 cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.*
• 7 make the second layer of dessert using the same method with the remaining 1 cup whipping cream, the dark chocolate, the remaining 3 tablespoons sugar, the remaining 2 egg yolks, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
• 8 divide dark chocolate mixture among chilled glasses.
• 9 cover and refrigerate about 4 hours or until firm.
• 10 note:.
• 11 to have the darker layer on the bottom, make the layer from step 3 first and follow with the layer in steps 1 and 2.