Chocolate Dumplings
Ingrediënten
- Ingredients for 24 Dumplings
- 1¾ tbsp 25 g Butter
- 12 oz 350 g Quark
- 2 Eggs
- ½ tbsp Vanilla sugar
- 3 tbsp 20 g Confectioner’s sugar
- Zest of ½ lemon
- Zest of ½ orange
- 2 tsp 1 cl Rum
- 3.5 oz 100 g Breadcrumbs
- Sugar for the water
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
- For the Filling
- 7 tbsp 100 ml Heavy cream
- 3.5 oz 100 g Dark couverture chocolate
- For the Cinnamon Crumbs
- 7 tbsp 100 g Butter
- 4 oz 120 g Breadcrumbs
- Dash of cinnamon ground
Instructies
- For the filling, first melt the dark chocolate in the heavy cream in a double boiler, then chill.
- In the meantime, make the dough by first creaming the butter and confectioner’s sugar.
- Mix in the quark.
- Then mix in the eggs, vanilla sugar, rum, orange zest, and lemon zest.
- Finally, fold in the breadcrumbs.
- Let the dough rest for 1 hour.
- Fill a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle with the cooled chocolate and pipe small balls of chocolate.
- Wrap each ball in dough and form dumplings.
- Bring sugared water to a boil in a pot and boil the dumplings for 6–8 minutes.
- While they boil, melt butter in a pan and brown the breadcrumbs with cinnamon.
- Remove the dumplings, let drip, and roll in the crumbs.
- Dust with confectioner’s sugar and serve.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
If you’d rather skip the step of preparing the chocolate, you can simply use chunks of cooking chocolate as filling.