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jojamescourt
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Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
HI All,
We have people coming for dinner tomorrow and I want to do Jamie's chocolate pots for pudding ('The Return of the Naked Chef', page 242-243) but the people coming are tee-total. Has anyone tried the chocolate pots minus the brandy? Does it taste the same? 
Jo 
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#2 Sat 24 Feb 07 6:56pm
mummza
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
I make chocolate pots by heating double cream to near boiling and then stiring in some broken plain chocolate .
(I take the pan off the heat when the cream has heated)
taste it, as just occasionaly it will need a tiny bit of sugar added.
Thats it!!!
be a bit carefull though ,if you refridgerate them be sure to remove them from the fridge at least 1/2 hour to soften.
(otherwise they will be set like concrete 
)
I tend to make the chocolate pots in little expersso cups ..or little tiny dishes.
These are so simple thet I made them with a 5year old recently. He wanted them made with Cadburys Dairy milk chocolate and my daughter said that they were awsome!
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#3 Sat 24 Feb 07 8:46pm
oliviascotland
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
You should be able to substitute orange juice for brandy. A different taste, but still very good
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#4 Sat 24 Feb 07 8:51pm
TheBeast
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
How about a touch of cinammon, a grate of nutmeg and some dark grape juice?
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#5 Sat 24 Feb 07 8:53pm
mummza
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
or ..a little grated orange zest.
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#6 Sat 24 Feb 07 9:34pm
TheBeast
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
Or take the risk and invent a new flavour for the tee-total community 
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#7 Sat 24 Feb 07 10:07pm
GeoffP
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
If you have a thermometer, you can easily reduce tye alcohol content of the brandy to zero.
Just heat it in gently in a pan. when it reaches 100C - 212F, all the alcohol has been driven off (alcohol boils at 60C ).
Use the alcohol-free brandy
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#8 Sat 24 Feb 07 10:36pm
TheBeast
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
As an experiment, when they've had the chocolate pots, place the brandy bottle somewhere they can see it, and see if they start feeling or acting drunk.
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#9 Sat 24 Feb 07 11:30pm
cupcake
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
Forget the miniscule amount of booze - orange zest in all things choco!
Even choco chip cookies. Flipping fantastic.
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#10 Sun 25 Feb 07 12:16am
TheBeast
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Re: Non-alcoholic chocolate pots
Apparently you're supposed to use orange...
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