Name: Lindt Chocolate Fondants
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 15 g unsalted butter ((melted)); 15 g cocoa powder; 2 lindt truffle balls ((frozen)); 75 g dark chocolate; 100 g unsalted butter; 1 medium egg; 2 egg yolks; 75 g light brown soft sugar/caster sugar; 50 g plain flour

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Delightfully indulgent yet incredibly easy to make lindt chocolate fondants for two – choose your favourite truffle, and bake!

An indulgent chocolate dessert for two for the festive season… gooey chocolate centre with a melted Lindt truffle? YES PLEASE.

Dessert for two

I adore a simple dessert for two people, as often I am just wanting to make something delicious for my boyfriend and myself. Yeah, you can make the regular sized desserts and just freeze the rest, but sometimes you really do just want two portions.

I’ve made my cheesecake for two before, and my chocolate cake for two, but I wanted to do something indulgent and over the top for the festive period for a little treat, so here you have some Lindt chocolate fondants. These are super easy to whip up like my other for-two puddings, and I’m obsessed.

For a bake like this, which is similar to my creme egg fondants, you can multiply up the recipe to make more portions, super easily and it really does just double up to make four, triple up to make six and so on.

Lindt Chocolate

Lindt chocolate is indulgent and one of the most famous indulgent chocolates around – and I know why. It’s the luxury, the elite, the smooth chocolate that is rich but pleasant in every single way.

The Lindt truffles are famous beyond words, and there isn’t often a year where I am not given a box as a present by someone in my life – and yes, I do eat them all immediately as you should. However, as they have that iconic luxury taste, come perfectly in the round shape, they are ideal for the job of going into the centre of a chocolate fondant like this.

You can use any Lindt truffle flavour that you prefer, there are so many now, but I went for the classic red packet. You can also use Lindt chocolate for the base mixture of the fondant, but you can also get away with the cheap supermarket stuff here. Technically, any soft truffle will work for the middle, but for ease just buying Lindt is my go-to.

Chocolate fondants

This mixture is a few ingredients, but in small amounts, to make these fondants – but I promise you it’s worth it. I always prep my pudding moulds with melted butter and cocoa powder to make sure they come out easily.

Lindt truffles – As mentioned above, two of your favourite Lindt truffles frozen solid.
Chocolate – Dark chocolate helps bake the fondant correctly because of the cocoa content so I would recommend sticking to dark
Butter – I prefer to use block butter for this for best results
Egg – one egg, and two egg yolks for the richness and to help bake the centre correctly to the soft texture
Sugar – I like using light brown soft sugar or caster sugar, whichever I have.
Flour – you want to use plain flour so that it doesn’t rise too much.

How to bake

These chocolate fondants sound like a lot if you read the recipe list, but it really does only take 10-15 minutes to put the mixture together, 15-17 minutes to bake, and 10 minute to cool and you’re done. Something super delicious and decadent in under an hour? Yeah okay then.

I melt the dark chocolate and butter together until smooth, and then leave to cool slightly before carrying on. You then add in the egg and egg yolks and mix in until smooth. Mix through the sugar and the plain flour again until smooth – I don’t gently fold or anything, but I do just do this in a bowl with a spatula as it’s so easy to make.

Split the mixture between the two prepared moulds, and then push the frozen truffle into the middle. Bake immediately for 15-17 minutes (less time is more soft, longer is less soft), and then leave them on the side for 10 minutes to cool and set slightly.

Serving

After ten minutes, you are ready for something unimaginably heavenly. I tip my moulds onto my serving plate as they are quite delicate when still warm (as you want them to be). Cut into the pudding to get a centre of soft fondant as well as a melted Lindt ball?! It’s such a good mix.

You can serve with a little ice cream for extra elegance or a drizzle of cream, or anything you like, or as they are. They are delightful and look showstopper like, even if they are incredibly easy to make yourself.

Tips & Tricks

These are the pudding moulds I use and recommend
These are best served fresh
These are best baked fresh for best results – prepping in advance might mean a less soft centre
You can use any flavour Lindt truffle in the middle