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Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 square unsweetened chocolate
- 9 egg yolks
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 Tbs. butter
Preparation
Step 1
Separate 9 eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the yolks and set it aside.
Combine the milk, cream and sugar in a heavy saucepan off the heat. Unwrap 4 squares of unsweetened chocolate, break them into two parts at the indentation, and add them to your saucepan.
Heat the mixture over medium high heat on the stove, stirring constantly until little whiffs of steam start to escape and you think it's about to boil.
Pull the saucepan from the heat, but don't turn off the burner. This next step will only take a minute or two.
Give the beaten egg yolks a final stir, and add approximately 2 Tbs. of the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks, stirring it in quickly.
Off the heat, slowly pour the egg mixture into the chocolate mixture in the saucepan, stirring all the while. When it's incorporated, put the saucepan back on the heat.
Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture comes to a full boil. Pull the saucepan off the heat, and turn off the burner.
Quickly stir in vanilla. Then stir in the butter and continue to stir until melted.
Let the pudding cool and use it to fill cream puffs.