Chocolate Fondant

Methods

• Preheat oven to 180º C.
• Take the chocolate in a bowl, add unsalted butter and melt them on a double boiler.
• Cut the basil leaves into fine strips.
• Grease 4 steel bowls with margarine and dust them with cocoa powder.
• Once the chocolate melts, take the bowl off the double boiler, add basil leaves and whisk. Add condensed milk and eggs and whisk well. Add refined flour and whisk well.
• Fill the prepared steel bowls upto the brim with this batter.
• Keep these bowls on a baking tray, keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes.
• Bring the tray out of the oven and cool slightly. Demould the fondants carefully and keep one on each serving plate. Keep a small scoop of vanilla ice cream on each fondant. Garnish with a basil leaf.
• Take some rum in a steel ladle, hold it over flame till it gets heated slightly, pour it over the ice cream. Give a small cut on one side of the fondant and serve.