EASY Valentine's Day Last Minute Chocolate Treat

Hello you lovely people. Okay, so it's not long now until Valentine's Day and the question is, is have you done enough? Are you prepped? Are you ready to give beautiful things to the person that you love? Maybe you could do more? Okay, so look, let me give you a little gift. This is The Incredible Chocolate Pots, book two, right. Been with my missus for 25 years, she loves it. Proper, romantic. A chocolate pot is like dense, it's incredible, it's rich, it's like the best expression of chocolate ever and you can dip stuff in it. It's lovely, it's just what you need in your life because you want to get lucky. So let's do that. Have you got four minutes for someone you love? Have you got four minutes? Okay, so come forth. We've got half a pint of gorgeous single cream, organic. Then we need two packs. Two packs, 200 grams of gorgeous chocolate. None of that cheap old rubbish. 70% cocoa solids, right. Give it a spank, so things are already looking up, right. Give it a good old spank and that's going to break the chocolate and then if you do do that, then you can kind of come over here. So we don't want to boil this cream because chocolate's very delicate. So as it comes up to temperature, it will start to melt beautifully. Smells amazing already. The second lot goes in and smashing it really makes all the difference and then with love and respect, we're just going to kind of move this up. Can you see it melting already? Look at that. The colour starts to change. Oh, it smells amazing. So as that comes up, we want to make it more rich. So 20 grams of beautiful butter goes in. Then I'm going to take a little bit of booze. Take the booze of your choice. So I'm using a little bit of a, you know, brandy. So that's from France, very nice. If you're from Scotland, you can have a little bit of quality whiskey. If you're from Brazil, cachaça. If you're from, let's think of another country, oh Mexico, good tequila. Oh yes. If you're from Essex, snowball. No, that's a cocktail, that don't count. Okay look, come in. You can see now we've brought it off the heat. Super, super quick, right. And then the butter is melting and that's really enriching it. And then there's one last thing I want to do, other than this lovely little bit of brandy that I'm going to put in. About three tablespoons, two or three, just to give it a nice little kick, right. And then we're going to go in some egg yolks, two egg yolks. That's going to give it the most incredible silky texture. So then we can go to a and really mix that in. So the point of a chocolate pot, it's not a mousse, no bubbles, like it's silkiness, it's delicate, it's super, super sort of decadent. Really, really good. So once you've done that, actually one last thing, really, really important, a pinch of salt. It's really, really weird I know, but salt opens up the taste buds. It allows you to taste the chocolate even better. So that is now done. Get a nice little spatula and just put it into these cups, like so. Try not to make too much mess, but literally two tablespoons is all you need, because it's really intense and luxurious. So that is the chocolate pot. So look, you could have it warm, absolute joy, right? Or just give it a little shake and pop it in the fridge for about two hours. It's going to be really kind of unctuous and sort of dense, but really sort of spoonable. So I've got some here that I made earlier. So then the question is how to eat, right? So just picture this, candles lit, curtains drawn, a little bit of sade, right? I mean you don't even have to cook a dinner, just go for this, right? Because this is, this is going to be the trick, right? The big question is how to eat it. Now we could use a spoon, it's a bit too big. Could be a teaspoon or, oh yeah, we could dunk. So we could go nice little jammy dodger, heart in the middle, romantic, yeah? Imagine dunking that in there, in there, happy days. Or to keep on the kind of really romantic theme, hobnob, right? You know what I'm talking about, hobnob. Take the whole thing or do you want to take two? Your choice. So you know, you could take the humble kind of little biscuit like that and then have a little, have a little ferret around. Look at that, that is what I'm talking about and when that goes in there, that is beautiful. So ladies, gentlemen, wherever the love is in your life, do a chocolate pop, make something for someone you love, put some nice music on, have a lovely night. I wish you all the best. Spread some love man, there's too much hatred in the world. This, this could fix anything. Good luck and I really, really hope you get a bunk up. Lots of love.