Best Chocolate Sabayon Recipes

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE PIE WITH ORANGE-CHAMPAGNE SABAYON AND STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• For truffle pie:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 9-inch glass pie dish with margarine. Whisk first 3 ingredients in small bowl. Combine 1 pound chocolate and 6 tablespoons margarine in large microwave-safe bowl.
• Microwave in 20-to 30-second intervals until smooth, stirring often. Set aside to cool.
• Beat eggs in large bowl 1 minute. Add sugar and vanilla. Beat until thick and pale yellow, 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in orange peel, then chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low; beat in dry ingredients. Transfer batter to pie dish; place on rimmed baking sheet.
• Place baking sheet with pie in oven. Bake pie until cracked on top and tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool to room temperature (center will fall).
• Combine 1 ounce chopped chocolate and 1 tablespoon margarine in microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 15-second intervals until glaze is smooth, stirring often.
• Drizzle glaze over pie. Sprinkle with almonds. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Chill until cold. Tent with foil; chill.
• For strawberries:
• Toss berries, sugar, and orange peel in medium bowl to blend. Chill until ready to serve, up to 4 hours.
• Cut pie into wedges; place on plates. Serve with strawberries and sabayon.

CHOCOLATE-COVERED POACHED PEARS WITH APRICOT-PECAN STUFFING AND CHILE SABAYON

Steps:

• Poach pears
• Cut a circle of parchment paper to fit inside mouth of a heavy large pot. Combine wine, sugar, vanilla bean, canela, anise seeds, and lemon zest in pot over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Add pears and enough water to cover, 3 to 4 cups. Place parchment paper over pears to keep them submerged, and bring liquid to gentle simmer. Simmer until pears are just tender, about 12 minutes. Remove pears, discarding liquid, cool completely, and refrigerate until chilled.
• Make stuffing
• Melt butter or margarine in medium skillet over medium heat. Add pecans and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. Add chopped apricots and cook, stirring, 1 minute more. Add brown sugar and cook mixture, stirring constantly, until light syrup develops, about 1 more minute. Remove from heat and cool.
• Stuff pecan mixture into hollowed pears, packing tightly. Refrigerate until chilled.
• Make chocolate sauce
• Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Melt butter or margarine in small saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate.
• Remove pears from refrigerator and dip into chocolate sauce, tilting and swirling pan to coat bottom half of each pear.
• Place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet and refrigerate until chocolate is set.
• Make sabayon
• In metal bowl whisk together egg yolks, wine, sugar, and chile powder until well combined. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water and cook mixture, whisking constantly, until foamy and thick enough that strokes leave a clear path, about 4 to 5 minutes. Remove bowl from over water.
• To serve
• Ladle sabayon into 6 shallow bowls. Place 1 pear in each bowl. Garnish with fresh mint and berries.

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE PIE WITH ORANGE-CHAMPAGNE SABAYON AND STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• truffle pie Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 9-inch glass pie dish with margarine. Whisk first 3 ingredients in small bowl. Combine 1 pound chocolate and 6 tablespoons margarine in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 20- to 30-second intervals until smooth, stirring often. Set aside to cool. Beat eggs in large bowl 1 minute. Add sugar and vanilla. Beat until thick and pale yellow, 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in orange peel, then chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low; beat in dry ingredients. Transfer batter to pie dish; place on rimmed baking sheet. Place baking sheet with pie in oven. Bake pie until cracked on top and tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool to room temperature (center will fall). Combine 1 ounce chopped chocolate and 1 tablespoon margarine in microwave- safe bowl. Microwave in 15-second intervals until glaze is smooth, stirring often. Drizzle glaze over pie. Sprinkle with almonds. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Chill until cold. Tent with foil; chill. strawberries Toss berries, sugar, and orange peel in medium bowl to blend. Chill until ready to serve, up to 4 hours. Cut pie into wedges; place on plates. Serve with strawberries and sabayon.

FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH APPLE CIDER SABAYON

Steps:

• Cake: Melt chocolate over a water bath. Dissolve the sugar in one cup of water. Add vanilla and bring to a simmer. Bring off the heat and let cool slightly. Add syrup to chocolate whisking to combine. Continue whisking and add the eggs and egg yolks one at a time. Add the salt. Add butter a little at a time. Bake at 350 in a water bath for 30-40 minutes, or until the surface starts to crack (subtle cracks only!). Let cool at room temperature and then chill in the fridge until set. Tips: the water bath should be about half way up the container you bake the cake in. I would bake the cake in something long and narrow. If you have a terrine that would be great. I don't so I used the smallest loaf pan I could. The cake comes out as a compact and heavy loaf sized cake (it doesn't actually rise at all). Then you can cut it into narrow/thin slabs to serve. It's very intense so really small portions is appropriate. Sabayon: Over a water bath whisk the yolks, sugar and cider until thickened and ribbons form. Whisk the cream and the vanilla separately until soft peaks form. When the yolks cool fold in the cream. Serving ideas: I served it with a Sabayon and garnished with a couple of cape gooseberries. You could also serve with a dollop of creme fraiche or even a fruit coulis. Yummy!

CHAMPAGNE SABAYON ON TOP OF MILK CHOCOLATE SAUCE AND FRESH BERRIES

Steps:

• To make the Champagne sabayon, put the egg yolks, sugar, and Champagne in a medium stainless steel bowl. Whisk over barely simmering water (145 degrees F) until mixture begins to thicken. When it has tripled in volume, and falls in ribbons into the bowl, remove it from the water. Place the bowl on a cool surface and continue to whisk until the sabayon has cooled slightly.
• While the sabayon is cooling, heat the milk chocolate sauce in a small sauce pot over low heat. Slowly incorporate the heavy cream until smooth. Mix the chocolate with the fresh berries and pour into a martini glass. Serve the sabayon over the chocolate/berry mixture and garnish with sugar cookies.

CHOCOLATE SABAYON

Steps:

• Whisk first 5 ingredients in medium metal bowl to blend. Set over saucepan of simmering water (do not allow bowl to touch water). Using handheld electric mixer, beat mixture until thick and thermometer inserted into mixture registers 160°F, about 4 minutes. Remove from over water. Add chocolate; whisk until melted (mixture will deflate. Cool.

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE SABAYON

Steps:

• In a double boiler or small saucepan set over simmering water, combine the chocolate and butter. Heat, stirring often, just until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat.
• Combine the egg yolks with half of the sugar in large bowl of an electric mixer. Beat for several minutes, until the yolks are thick and pale yellow.
• In another large bowl (with clean beaters), beat the whites with the remaining sugar until soft peaks form.
• Pour the chocolate mixture into the bowl containing the egg yolks and stir with a rubber spatula to blend. Fold the egg whites into chocolate mixture gently, but thoroughly. Transfer the mousse to a serving bowl; refrigerate, covered, for 12 hours. When ready to serve the mousse, dust with cocoa powder or top with chocolate curls, if desired.

GINGER SOUFFLES WITH CHOCOLATE SABAYON

Steps:

• Butter four 1 1/4-cup soufflé dishes or custard cups. Sprinkle with sugar. Combine first 4 ingredients in heavy medium sauce pan. Bring to boil. Remove from heat. Cover and let steep 30 minutes. Strain milk mixture. Return to same saucepan.
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Whisk egg yolks, 1/3 cup sugar and flour in small bowl to blend. Bring milk mixture in saucepan to boil over medium heat. Whisk in yolk mixture. Continue to whisk until mixture simmers and thickens, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in crystallized ginger, candied fruit and peel (mixture will be thick). Cool. (Can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover; let stand at room temperature.)
• Beat egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/3 cup sugar; beat until stiff but not dry. Whisk 1/3 of whites into yolk mixture to lighten. Fold in remaining whites in 2 more additions. Divide among soufflé dishes.
• Bake soufflés until puffed and golden, about 18 minutes. Serve immediately with Chocolate Sabayon.