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Dessert for a Special Event Chocolate Banana Charlotte

Name: Chocolate Banana Charlotte
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 415 min
Ingredients: 100 gr. / 3.5 oz. Sugar; 100 gr. / 3.5 oz. Water; 2 Bananas; 50 gr. / 1.8 oz. Sugar; 30 gr. / 0.7 oz. Butter; 2 tbsp rum; 5 Eggs; 25 gr. / 0.9 oz. Sugar; 150 gr. / 5.3 oz. Dark chocolate; 75 gr. / 2.6 oz. Whipping cream 35%; 35 gr. / 1.2 oz. Sugar; 15 gr. / 0.5 oz. unsweetened Cocoa powder; 45 gr. / 1.6 oz. Whipping cream; 50 gr. / 1.8 oz. Dark chocolate

Cookn with Class Uzes — February 5, 2017

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Create an impressive and decadent ending to your special evening when this delicious Chocolate Banana Charlotte is served.

Chocolate Banana Charlotte

Creamy chocolate mousse and ladyfingers with flambe bananas dripping in chocolate sauce.

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Prep Time 45 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Total Time 6 hrs 55 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Servings people

Ingredients

100 gr. / 3.5 oz. Sugar
100 gr. / 3.5 oz. Water
2 Bananas
50 gr. / 1.8 oz. Sugar
30 gr. / 0.7 oz. Butter
2 tbsp rum
5 Eggs
25 gr. / 0.9 oz. Sugar
150 gr. / 5.3 oz. Dark chocolate
75 gr. / 2.6 oz. Whipping cream 35%
35 gr. / 1.2 oz. Sugar
15 gr. / 0.5 oz. unsweetened Cocoa powder
45 gr. / 1.6 oz. Whipping cream
50 gr. / 1.8 oz. Dark chocolate

Instructions

Chocolate Banana Charlotte

Weigh all the ingredients and reserve separately
Slice the banana.
In a large frying pan, heat the butter until it starts changing color,
Add the banana, cook 2 minutes, flip them over and add 35 gr sugar.
Cook 1 minute, add the rum and flambé.
Remove the banana and reserve in the fridge for later.
Boil the water and and 100gr sugar.
Keep aside.

Chocolate Mousse

Whisk the egg white until firm, add 25 gr sugar.
Melt 150 chocolate in a microwave or bain-marie.
Add 75 gr whipping cream, mix well.
Add the egg yolks and finally the egg white, slowly and delicately.

Assembly

Use a mold for charlotte or metallic bowl lined with plastic film.
Dip the ladyfingers one by one in the syrup and place along the side and bottom of your prepared mold or bowl side by side.
Add some chocolate mousse until half full add the sliced banana, a little bit of chocolate mousse.
Add a layer of ladyfinger over the mousse and fill up with the rest of the mousse. Finish with a layer of lady finger.
Let cool down in the fridge 6 hours

Chocolate Sauce

1 hour before serving, warm 45 gr water, add sugar and cocoa powder.
Mix well and let boil 30 seconds.
Reserve.
Boil the cream.
Melt the chocolate and add the hot cream.
Mix well and add the chocolate sauce.
Let cool down.
Un-mold the charlotte on a cooling rack.
Pour some chocolate sauce and serve

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Cook’n With Class has been in operation since 2007 in Paris offering French Cooking Classes (in English), to visiting tourists and locals interested in learning about this very important part of French culture. The school offers classes from French Market to Bread Baking and Macarons. Chef Eric Fraudeau, who worked both in France and internationally, along with his wife Yetunde Oshodi-Fraudeau, opened their second school, Cook’n With Class Uzès in 2015 in the sunny south of France, this time focusing on Provençal and Mediterranean cuisine. They also offer a 5 day/7-night culinary holiday package (Week in Uzès), including accommodations, with tours, tastings and of course cooking.

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