Turn To The Dark Side… Of Chocolate!

We began to wrap up our Day of Chocolate and Stockings. The stockings, in all their glue infused glory, were drying, the dinner had been consumed, the wine just about finished and it was time for dessert.

I had prepared the pâté the day before, as well as the sauce. It was all too easy.

-1 pound bittersweet chocolate, chopped (I used chocolate chips)
-3/4 cup zinfandel or other red wine
-1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
-2 pints fresh berries, such as raspberries or strawberries (I used raspberries)
-1/2 cup sugar

Combine chocolate, wine (it was a little hard not to drink the rest of the wine!) and cream in top of double boiler and melt over simmering water over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture is just smooth. Do not allow chocolate to get too warm. Remove from heat and whisk well.

Pour into an 8 x 4” loaf pan (or two 5 x 2½” loaf pans) lined with wax paper. Refrigerate overnight. Before serving, unmold and slice with a knife dipped in hot water.

Purée berries and sugar in a blender until smooth. (I so wanted to eat the raspberries instead of use them in the sauce!)

To serve, make a pool of sauce on each plate.  Slice pâté and place a slice on sauce on each plate.



It was such an easy recipe! And all indications were that it would be good. I let my dad lick the bowl the pâté had been cooked in and the remnants of the chocolate quickly disappeared.

I had a brilliant idea to serve the dessert like how they do in fancy restaurants. I was going to slice the pâté thinly, and arrange the slices to look like fallen dominoes around one edge of the plate. Sauce would be drizzled over the slices and around the other side of the plate.

The slices came out too chunky and the sauce didn’t drizzle delicately the way I wanted it to.

Still, the dessert was edible and slightly presentable.

Well, edible, sort of. It was so rich that only I could finish it completely, and that was a tough chore. It was delicious! Just really, overly rich. That’s saying a lot coming from me, too!

The recipe says it serves 8. I’d bump that serving up to about 16 to 20 servings at least. Five of us didn’t even finish half the pâté.

Still, it was really good. I would have enjoyed it more if I had served a little less.

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