A chocolate dessert is hard to beat after a home-cooked dinner, especially when it’s got a silky, molten core.
The classic French recipe for chocolate fondants is easy to follow with most recipes, including this one by Nico, a Chef pâtissier from France.
Sharing his recipe on TikTok (@nicook_off), he claimed that it takes just 10 minutes to make.
And the best part is, only six basic ingredients are needed to whip up the rich, indulgent puddings from scratch.
However, the chef warned: “In a recipe that has so few ingredients, the quality of the chocolate is very important.”
Method
Demonstrating the recipe in a TikTok video, the French cooking expert started by breaking up 130g of dark chocolate and placing it into a glass, heatproof mixing bowl along with 130g of butter.
He melted them together slowly in the microwave to avoid burning then added 80g of white sugar before stirring everything. Next, Nico added the three eggs one at a time, warning that it is very important to stir well in the intervals between adding each one to “achieve the same softness” in the core of the pudding.
The next step was to add 50g of flour before mixing everything to form a thick cake batter.
Nico then transferred the contents of the bowl into a piping bag and sealed off the top, leaving a small opening at the bottom tip of the cone-shaped bag.
The TikTok content creator’s next step was to take six, tall round cookie cutters on a lined baking tray, line each one inside with a strip of greaseproof paper and then pipe enough mixture into each one to cover the base and fill it 3/4 of the way to the top.
Muffin moulds would work but the chef warned that this would make the fondants much harder to remove once cooked.
To finish the fondants, Nico sprinkled each one with some sea salt, which is “very important for taste”, before popping them in the oven at 190C for 10 minutes.
He proclaimed: “And look at this texture, it’s incredible!”
To make them a little bit runnier, just cook them for eight minutes in the oven rather than 10.
