Valentine’s Day 2025: Surprise Your Sweetheart On Chocolate Day With Chef Sanjeev Kapoor’s Delightful Dessert

Valentine’s Day 2025: Chocolate Day, celebrated on February 9 during Valentine’s Week, is the perfect excuse to indulge in decadent treats.

This year, make the occasion extra special with Chef Sanjeev Kapoor’s Chocolate Delice, a dessert that promises to delight every chocolate lover.

Chocolate Delice

Ingredient:

• 5-7 digestive biscuits
• 5-7 almonds
• 4-6 walnuts
• 1 tablespoon butter + 1 teaspoon
• 1/3 cup fresh cream
• ½ teaspoon gelatin
• ½ cup whipped cream

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line the base of the spring bottom mold with an aluminum foil.
• Grind biscuits to make a fine powder.
• Roughly chop almonds and walnuts.
• Take 1 tablespoon butter in a microwave-proof bowl and heat in microwavethe till melted. Add biscuit powder and chopped almonds and walnuts and mix well.
• Take a lined spring bottom mould, put biscuit-butter mixture and level it out. Put the mould in preheated oven and bake for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and refrigerate for 5-10 minutes.
• To prepare chocolate filling, roughly chop chocolate and transfer in a bowl.
• Heat cream in a non-stick pan and bring to boil.
• Take some water in a microwave proof bowl. Add gelatin and set aside to bloom.
• Add hot cream to chocolate bowl and whisk well till chocolate melts. Set aside to cool.
• Heat gelatin mixture in microwave for 10 seconds. Remove from heat and cool.
• Reserve some chocolate mixture for glaze in a bowl.
• Add 1/3 of whipped cream to chocolate mixture and fold well. Add remaining whipped cream and fold gently.
• Add 1 teaspoon gelatin to reserved chocolate.
• Add 1 tablespoon chocolate-cream mixture to remaining gelatin, mix and add to remaining chocolate-cream mixture and fold well.
• Fill in some chocolate-cream-gelatin mixture in the mould and tap. Refrigerate till semi-set.
• Add remaining butter to chocolate-gelatin mixture, mix and heat in microwave for 10 seconds. Remove from heat, mix and pour it over semi-set quiche and spread evenly.
• Refrigerate for 7-8 hours or till fully set. Serve