Raspberry Chocolate Parfait

Serves: 5

Camila Dooley

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

53

Spice

45

Sweetness

50

Sourness

44

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.4

Difficulty

Ingredients:

2 cups

Milk

3

Eggs

1 cup

Sugar

1 cup

Heavy Cream

Directions:

1

For the Pudding: Bring to a boil the milk and vanilla bean in a large heavy bottomed pot

2

Meanwhile, whisk to blend the eggs, egg yolks, potato starch, sugar, cocoa powder, and flour

3

Remove the milk pan from heat once it boils

4

With the whisk in the center of the cocoa mixture, slowly pour the hot milk in and begin to combine the 2 mixtures

5

Finish pouring the milk in and whisk to fully incorporate

6

Return mixture to the pot and cook over medium heat, slowly whisking constantly to prevent scorching

7

The ingredients have a low burning temperature and will scorch easily so keep the whisk moving

8

Cook until large bubbles slowly rise to the surface of the pot

9

I call these "lava bubbles" because the large steam venting bubbles make me think of flowing molten lava

10

The pastry cream temperature is approximately 200 degrees F

11

Remove pot from the heat and whisk in the butter

12

Remove the vanilla bean from the pudding

13

Pour pudding into a heat resistant bowl and cover with plastic wrap, making sure the plastic wrap touches the surface of the pudding to prevent a skin from forming

14

For the Whipped Cream: Combine all the ingredients in a mixer bowl and whip on medium speed

15

Stop the mixer when you have medium peaks and finish whipping manually with whisk

16

This will help avoid ruining the whipped cream's luscious texture

17

For the Raspberry Puree: Combine the frozen berries and sugar in a pot and bring to a gentle simmer

18

Cook gently for 5 minutes

19

Strain the berries to remove the seeds

20

It's easier to pour if you can put it in a squeeze bottle

21

Ganache: Bring the heavy cream to a boil and immediately pour over the chocolate

22

Stir to combine

23

Allow to cool for easy handling

24

Berries: use the freshest and plumpest berries available

25

Assembly: Load pudding and whipped cream into separate pastry bags

26

Alternately pipe into tall sundae glasses, starting with chocolate pudding, then the whipped cream, rapsberry puree and fresh berries

27

Repeat as needed and top the parfait with whipped cream and fresh berries

28

Drizzle chocolate ganache across the top for extra indulgence!