CHOCOLATE-CHIP SOUFFLE

Chocolate-chip souffle image

Provided by Craig Claiborne And Pierre Franey

Time 1h

Yield Four servings

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

1 tablespoon melted butter
1/2 cup sugar, plus one tablespoon for coating souffle dishes
2 cups milk
3 ounces semisweet chocolate
6 eggs, separated
4 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Confectioners' sugar for garnish

Steps:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Butter the inside of four one-and-one-half-cup individual souffle dishes with the melted butter. Sprinkle the inside of the dishes with a total of one tablespoon of sugar, shaking out excess. Chill.
Bring the milk gently to a simmer and remove from the heat.
Put the chocolate in a small, heavy saucepan. Set the pan in a slightly larger basin of boiling water and let stand until chocolate is melted.
In a mixing bowl, combine the egg yolks, one-quarter cup of the sugar and the cornstarch. Beat thoroughly. Add a little of the hot milk to the yolk mixture and beat. Combine the yolk mixture with the remaining hot milk, beating constantly. Cook over gentle heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is quite thick.
Scrape the melted chocolate into the custard and beat well to blend. Pour and scrape this into a mixing bowl.
Beat the whites until thickened and add a little of the remaining sugar. Continue beating, gradually adding all of the remaining sugar until the whites stand in stiff peaks.
Add about one-third of the whites to the chocolate mixture. Beat briskly until well blended. Add the remaining whites and the chocolate chips, and fold them in gently but rapidly with a spatula.
Spoon an equal amount of the mixture into the four prepared dishes. Smooth over the tops of each souffle. Run the thumb all around the inside rim of each dish, at a depth of about one-half inch, to briefly separate the souffle mixture from the dish.
Arrange the dishes on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. Serve sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 574, UnsaturatedFat 8 grams, Carbohydrate 75 grams, Fat 26 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 14 grams, SaturatedFat 14 grams, Sodium 167 milligrams, Sugar 64 grams, TransFat 0 grams