Chocolate Fondant with a Nöt-Crème Peanut Surprise
In collaboration with Camilla Hamid, we present a dreamy chocolate fondant with a delightful Nöt-Crème peanut filling. A velvety, chocolatey exterior and a nutty center — it doesn’t get better than this!
This recipe makes 6 servings.
Ingredients:
200 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
100 g butter
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
125 ml granulated sugar
75 ml flour
9 Nöt-Crème peanut balls
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (392°F).
- Coarsely chop the dark chocolate and melt it together with the butter in the microwave in 30-second intervals. Set aside.
- In a bowl, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, and granulated sugar until fluffy.
- Pour in the chocolate-butter mixture and gently stir until smooth.
- Sift in the flour carefully and fold it gently until the batter is smooth.
- Grease six oven-safe ramekins and dust the insides with sugar or cocoa powder.
- Divide the batter evenly among the ramekins and place 1.5 Nöt-Crème peanut balls in the center of each.
- Bake the chocolate fondants in the middle of the oven for about 12 minutes. Run a knife along the edges of each ramekin to help release the fondants when serving. Serve immediately with extra peanut balls, fresh berries, and cocoa.
Bror Printzell’s Candy Factory
In 1961, candy maker Bror Printzell in Hässleholm came up with the idea of taking the delicious filling from hard candies and packaging it in plastic sachets. This indulgent treat was Nöt-Crème, filled in 18-gram sachets. Bror Printzell justified this unusual idea by saying, ”It’s the best part you want anyway!” And who could argue with that logic? Initially, the idea was met with skepticism. Only one wholesaler in Gothenburg took a chance and bought a few boxes.
Then one day, Bror received a phone call. A lady explained that long lines of schoolchildren were queuing outside her kiosk, all wanting to buy Nöt-Crème. She wanted to order more! It soon became clear that many others thought candy filling in a sachet was a brilliant idea.
To this day, Nöt-Crème is made the same way, in the same factory in Hässleholm, Sweden.
