Herrencreme (Rum and Chocolate Cream)

Name: Herrencreme (Rum and Chocolate Cream)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 500 ml milk; 1 pack vanilla custard powder (37 g); 60 g sugar; 3 tbsp dark rum; 300 ml cream; 1 pack cream stiffener; 60 g dark chocolate; 20 g dark chocolate for sprinkling

A German classic from North Rhine-Westphalia: in Westphalia Herrencreme has long belonged on wedding and feast-day tables. For the dessert, completely cooled vanilla custard is flavoured with dark rum, lightened with stiffly whipped cream and shot through with grated chocolate. The result is a pale, velvety cream with dark flecks.

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Cook time

25 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

535 kcal

Calories

7 g

Protein

36 g

Fat

41 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€2.05 · ~€0.50/serving

Instructions

1
Take 6 tbsp of the milk and stir the vanilla custard powder and the sugar into it until smooth.
2
Bring the remaining milk to the boil in a pan, pour in the mixed custard powder while stirring and let it bubble up once.
3
Pour the custard into a bowl, lay cling film directly on the surface and leave it to cool completely.
4
Whisk the cold custard until smooth and stir in the rum.
5
Whip the cream with the cream stiffener until stiff. Finely grate the dark chocolate and fold it into the custard together with the cream.
6
Spoon the cream into glasses or a glass bowl and chill it.
7
Grate the dark chocolate for sprinkling and scatter it over the top just before serving.