Dark Chocolate Creme Brulee - DEN
Ingredients:
2 cups half and half
8 oz semisweet chocolate
8 large egg yolks
1/3 plus 8 Tbls sugar
Procedure:
Preheat 300 degree oven. Bring cream and half & half to boil. Reduce to low. Add chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth. Remove from heat. Whisk yolks & 1/3 cup sugar in large bowl. Gradually whisk in hot chocolate mixture. Strain. If yolks start cooking straining will get rid of any mistakes.
Divide custard among eight custard cups. Place cups in large baking pan. Add enough hot water to pan to come halfway up sides of cup. Bake until custards are set (about 50 minutes - check after about 40 minutes).
Chill 2 hrs. Cover and refrigerate overnite.
Sprinkle each custard with 1 Tbls sugar and use torch to melt sugar. If you don't have torch preheat broiler and carefully brown tops (approx 3 mins) and refrigerate until custards set, 1 to 2 hrs.