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dark chocolate creme brulee

Ingredients

  • 1 cup half and half
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 t vanilla
  • ⅔ cup dark chocolate chips
  • 5 large egg yolks
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • Extra sugar for topping

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  2. Heat cream and half in half just to boiling in saucepan. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and stir until melted.
  3. Beat egg yolk and sugar in large mixing bowl. Add chocolate cream mixture in three increments. Mix well. Pour into four ramekins (approximately 6-7 oz size). Place ramekins in 9 x 13 baking dish. Carefully, fill dish with boiling water to ⅔ depth, taking care not to splash water onto the creme brulee mixture. Bake for 30 minutes until center is set. Let cool and carefully remove ramekins from baking dish They can be refrigerated at this point.
  4. Just before serving, sprinkle with sugar and caramelize with kitchen torch.