Meringue with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream – recipes and wine pairings

Decanter headed out to the Great Italian Chef's and Lavazza coffee masterclass in London earlier this month and were shown how to make this simple but tasty dessert recipe by Christian and Manuel Costardi.

The Costardi Brothers bring the science lab into the kitchen with this inventive meringue with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream dessert recipe. If you cannot obtain liquid nitrogen to make the ice cream, simply use a premium vanilla ice cream as a substitute.

Chef: Costardi Brothers

Cooking time: 3 hours

Serves: 8

Course: Dessert

Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients:

Ice cream

• 750g of cream

• 180g of sugar

Meringue

• 200g of egg white

• 400g of sugar

• 1 pinch of Sarawak black pepper

• 1 pinch of lemon zest

Chocolate sauce

• 100g of dark chocolate, 72%

• 30g of butter

Garnish

• 200g of whipping cream, whipped

• salt flakes

Method:

1 First make the ice cream. In a small saucepan, heat the cream with the sugar and allow to reduce by half. Leave to cool

·750g of cream

·180g of sugar

2 Transfer the mixture to a standing mixer with paddle attachment and start to mix. Carefully pour in liquid nitrogen until frozen, then reserve in the freezer

3 Preheat the oven to 85°C

4 To prepare the meringue, beat together all of the ingredients until stiff peaks form

·200g of egg white

·400g of sugar

·1 pinch of Sarawak black pepper

·1 pinch of lemon zest

5 Transfer the mixture into a piping bag. Line a metal tray with greaseproof paper and pipe circles of the meringue on top, about 10cm in diameter. Bake for approximately 3 hours, then remove from the oven and allow to cool

6 For the chocolate sauce, place the chocolate and butter in a small saucepan and gently melt. Remove from the heat and whisk until fully combined

·100g of dark chocolate, 72% (or similar)

·30g of butter

7 Spread the chocolate sauce on a serving plate. Lightly crush the meringue, place in in the centre and add the whipped cream and ice cream. Complete with a disc of crushed meringue and a few salt flakes

·200g of whipping cream

·salt flakes

Translated by Leo / 孔祥鑫