Bouchon Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour 12 2-ounce timbale molds, or 8 3-ounce molds. Place molds on baking sheet. Sift flour, cocoa and salt together.
• Beat eggs and granulated sugar together at medium speed, about 3 minutes, until very pale. Beat in vanilla. On low speed, mix in dry ingredients in thirds, alternating with melted butter. Fold in chopped semisweet chocolate. (Batter can be made in advance and refrigerated up to 1 day.)
• Using pastry bag or spoon, fill each mold about 2/3 full. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until tops are shiny and cake tester comes out fairly clean but not dry; there may be chocolate on it from the chopped chocolate.
• Transfer molds to a rack, cool slightly, then invert and cool upside down. Unmold, dust with confectioners' sugar and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 on convection. Melt half the butter, put in bowl with the rest. Set aside. Measure flour into bowl, sift cocoa into same, add salt to same. Whisk to blend. In a stand mixer with a paddle, combine the eggs, sugar and vanilla on medium speed. Add butter and flour/cocoa mixture in three equal alternating parts, scraping after each addition. Mix in chocolate chips Bake at 350 degrees in a convection oven for 14 minutes if using popover pan filled halfway to the top. Makes 8 of those.