Name: Hot chocolate pudding with stewed apricots
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Dessert
Ingredients: 3.00 eggs seperated; 50.00 g sugar; 90.00 ml milk; 40.00 g flour; 5.00 ml Baking powder; 100.00 g amaretti biscuits or sponge fingers; 20.00 g dark chocolate; 200.00 ml water; 100.00 g sugar; 2.00 ml vanilla essence; 5.00 ml cinnamon ground; 800.00 g apricots

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Ingredients (12)

3.00	eggs — seperated
50.00 g	sugar
90.00 ml	milk
40.00 g	flour
5.00 ml	Baking powder
100.00 g	amaretti biscuits — or sponge fingers
20.00 g	dark chocolate

STEWED APRICOTS

200.00 ml	water
100.00 g	sugar
2.00 ml	vanilla — essence
5.00 ml	cinnamon — ground
800.00 g	apricots

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Method:

1. Grease and flour 8 dariole moulds. Beat the egg yolks and sugar together until pale. Stir in the milk.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder and cocoa and fold into yolk mixture. Chop up the biscuits and chocolate and fold in.
3. Beat the egg whites and fold in. Half fill each dariole mould and bake in a preheated 180 ºC oven for 10 minutes.
STEWED APRICOTS
4. Cut apricots in half, remove the stone and wash. Bring water, sugar, vanilla essence and cinnamon to boil. Add the apricots and bring back to boil. Remove pan from heat and leave them in the syrup to cool.
5. Arrange apricots on a plate with the chocolate pudding and garnish with cherries, chocolate and vanilla sauce.
Serves 8.