Recipe from our Executive Chef Dominique Lory - Traditionnal Chocolate Soufflé

Recipe for 4 persons / Cook time: 13 minutes 

For the pastry cream 

• 5 egg yolks 
• 50 cl whole milk 
• 100 g caster sugar 
• 65 g all-purpose flour 

For the batter of soufflé 

• 400 g egg whites  (1 egg white = 30 g) 
• 200 g caster sugar 
• 20 g butter 
• 85 g cocoa powder 
• 400 g pastry cream 
• 10 g icing sugar  & cocoa  powder at the end on the top 

Recipe 

• Bring the whole milk to boil in a pan. 
• Mix egg yolks, caster sugar and the floor, pour the boiling milk into this mixture and replace it over low heat. 
• Take two cake moulds, butter it and sugar it. 
• Whisk the egg whites until they form stiff peaks. At the last moment, adding caster sugar to strengthen egg whites.  
• Add to the pastry cream: cocoa powder and smoothly the egg whites. 
• Pour the mixture into cake moulds and bake it directly for 13 minutes at 200°C.  
• Right out of the oven, sprinkle with icing sugar and cocoa powder.