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Steamed Chocolate
Cherry Pudding
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deSSertS
1½ tablespoons Kirsch
¼ cup dried cherries
2½ tablespoons butter,
room temperature, divided
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate,
chopped
2 ounces semisweet chocolate,
chopped
1 cup flour
½ tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 large egg
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup reduced-fat milk
2 tablespoons hazelnuts, lightly
toasted and chopped
3 cups hot water
Makes 8 to 10 servings (1 quart)
Cut a piece of aluminum foil 20 inches in length; double over. Lightly coat foil with
½ teaspoon butter, reserve. Cut another piece of aluminum foil about 24 inches
long. Fold in half lengthwise, then fold in half again two more times to create a
strip about 24 inches in length and 2 inches wide to make a “cradle”; reserve. Cut
a piece of kitchen twine 36 inches in length.
Heat Kirsch until very warm, but not boiling. Add cherries and macerate for ½
hour. Lightly coat the bottom and sides of a 1-quart soufflé dish with ½ tablespoon
butter and dust with cocoa. Set aside. Place unsweetened chocolate and semisweet
chocolate with remaining butter in a Cuisinart
®
1¾-quart saucepan. Melt over
low heat.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Beat egg and sugar until
thick, using a Cuisinart
®
Smart Power
®
Hand Mixer on medium high speed,
about 5 minutes. Reduce speed to low and mix in ¹∕
³
of the flour mixture and
½ the milk, alternately, ending with the flour. Gently incorporate cherries,
Kirsch and hazelnuts.
Pour pudding into prepared soufflé dish. Cover with buttered foil. Secure with
twine. Set the dish in the center of the long strip of folded foil and bring up the
sides to meet – twist together to form a handle. Place the cooking rack in the
ceramic pot of a Cuisinart
®
Slow Cooker. Pour hot water into the bottom of the
pot. Set covered dish on rack, using the foil cradle to help lift the dish and carefully
lower the dish into the pot and place on the rack. Cover and cook on High for 2½
hours. Carefully remove the soufflé dish from the slow cooker using the foil strips
to lift it.
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories 342 (39% from fat) • carb. 48g • pro. 6g • fat 16g • sat. fat 8g
• chol. 49mg • sod. 278mg • calc. 51mg • fiber 3g
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