I must be the millionth person to post a version of this recipe online.
I must also be one of the worst drizzlers on the internet. I even sacrificed a relatively fancy jug (which will never be the same again) for the cause with little effect.
You can get quite fancy with this recipe if you like. Orange or ginger chocolate would be pretty amazing. Chunks of crystallised ginger or some chopped nuts would be epic.
I do like this salted version though. There's a great balance between the richness of the chocolate, the sweetness of the vanilla ice cream and the saltiness of the fleur de sel. The contrast between the salt and the ice cream is really interesting too; the salt has a warmth to it that I'd never really noticed before but which works perfectly with the cold.
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Adapted from The Accidental Vegetarian
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients
- 100g (4 oz) good quality dark chocolate
- 60g (1/4 cup) coconut oil*
- 1 teaspoon fleur de sel or sea salt
Cooking Directions
- Put all your ingredients in a microwaveable bowl and microwave on a low heat for a couple of minutes, stirring every 20 seconds or so until melted.
- Pour over ice cream and watch it work its magic!
- The magic shell should stay liquid at room temperature but if it hardens, just gently warm it up until it melts a bit.
* The only (ridiculously expensive) coconut oil I could find was unrefined which has a slight coconut flavour. If you use refined coconut oil, you shouldn't get much of a coconut hit at all.
33 comments:
I don't think I could 'drizzle' if my life depended on it! I love your bowls too they're gorgeous! this looks like the perfect end to a summer day in the office!
Is it the salt that makes it behave that way?
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@Jenny - Thank you! I love these bowls too, they are perfectly shallow and so perfect for ice cream!
@Yonks - The salt is just an added extra really, if you melt chocolate and then pour it over ice cream, it will harden by itself but the addition of coconut oil (which is solid at room temperature) helps it to solidify a bit more smoothly and easily.
I will be stocking up on Fleur de Sel in France very soon. Love it and think it makes a perfect partner to a good dark chocolate. Coconut oil I have never used before......would you recommend it and can I use it for anything else?!
@Laura - I like having it on hand (although it can be pretty expensive in the UK) but mainly so I can make this! You can also use it in place of butter in cakes & biscuits if you want to make them non-diary and I think it's used a fair bit in Indian cooking. I have seen this recipe online with vegetable oil rather than coconut oil and it seems to work although vegetable oil squicks me out a bit.
I love magic shell so much! It's been forever since I've had some! Ah, childhood memories. :)
Oh my goodness -- Magic Shell is the BEST!!! Love the fleur de sel addition too. Yum! :)
I'm making a peanut butter magic shell this weekend for my PB ice cream. I can't wait! Looks tasty - even if the drizzles aren't perfect :) Happy weekend, Kathryn.
aaaah magic!
@Erin - Hehe, I used to love it too although this feels like a decidedly grown up version!
@Ali - Isn't it just? Ice cream seems so boring by itself now!
@Megan - Oooh that sounds amazing! Will you be blogging it?!
@the actor's diet - I like a bit of kitchen magic every now and then :)
Looks amazing! Do you use it for anything other than over ice cream?
Looks yummy, will have to make for my niece when she visits.
Love coming to see what you are up too!
A million versions there may be, but yours is the first I've seen and I think it's brilliant! Can't wait to try!
This is so great. Salted chocolate is a weakness for me!
I love the addition of sea salt to this topping! Sounds wonderful!
this is brilliant! i love that you added in salt to make this a salted chocolate :)
Every dessert should have salt. It adds so much! This looks fabulous.
What a great idea, something new for us to try, love your photo too!
What great idea! I love how simple this recipe is!
Omg this looks so good for the summer. I love dark chocolate but there is one interesting thing in your recipe that got me thinking. Why add the pinch of salt??
I never add salt to chocolate before, does it make it taste better?
@bakingbeardy - I haven't yet, you really need something cold to make it solidify. You could probably use it on top of cupcakes or something if you then put them in the fridge and didn't allow them to warm up.
@Elizabeth - This is such a great recipe for children! Not only is it, well, magic but it's also free of all the nasties you can get in ice cream toppings!
@Leanne - Well then I will take all the credit for it ;) Hope you like it!
@Cassie - Isn't it just the best thing ever? It makes me so ridiculously happy!
@Jessica - Thank you so much!
@Julie - I'll pretty much add salt to anything that I can at the moment ;)
@Jen - Definitely my philosophy!
@Rob - Thanks very much!
@Alaina - The simple recipes are always the best in my opinion :)
@Hilda - If you've never had salted chocolate (or indeed salted caramel) then you're in for a treat! The salt works to make the chocolate taste, for want of a better word, more chocolatey. It's a bit like the PB & chocolate combination. It's perfection!
This is the first place I have seen this idea actually - and I adore it! Im obsessively into both ice cream AND coconut oil at the moment - so how perfect.
Oh and obsessively into salt in sweet goods too, but thats a given right.
I think your photo looks great love. Im hungry now anyways.
That is some AWESOME drizzling if you ask me! And really, it'll all look the same in my belly...which is where I want this right now.
I haven't seen this recipe before. So for me you are not the millionth person but you introduced me to it. It sounds very tasty. I am used to the caramel - fleur de sel combination that you get everywhere in France, especially in Brittany. But I have never seen chocolate and fleur de sel ice-cream :)
- Annika
Salted magic shell = yum! I've been trying to cook/bake more with coconut oil too so this is perfect!
My drizzling tends to look more like dropping to be honest, my other half says pretty much everything I do food wise is rustic so I'll go with that. I need to hunt out some coconut oil, I used to love magic shell as a kid but I can't quite bring myself to eat it now. Chemical city!
Love the fleur de sel idea! I know what you mean about drizzling... it doesn't sound hard, but it is! I need to get to a dollar store and get some squeeze bottles for prettier drizzling. LOL... I think this goes under "the things only food bloggers talk about" hah!
i think you're a great drizzler! i've seen this recipe come across a bunch of blogs but still haven't tried it - must change that soon!
SO that's how its made! I used to love this as a child and now I know hows it made thre will be no stopping me!
@Em - Thanks lovely! It's a very good use of a tablespoon of coconut oil in my book :)
@Joanne - Haha, yeah it definitely tastes amazing no matter how you drizzle it!
@Annika - Caramel and fleur de sel is one of my favourites but salt works so well with chocolate too. It really makes it seem more chocolatey!
@Bianca - Me too! It's such a useful (and tasty) ingredient to have around!
@Fishfingersfortea - Yes, I like 'rustic'. I'm definitely going to go with that!
@Heidi - Ooh that's a really good idea! A bottle like that would be so much easier than a jug!
@Amy - Oh you must! I think you'll love it :)
@Cakeboule - I know! And it's so quick to make as well, you can knock it up while you're waiting for the ice cream to soften up enough to scoop!
I need to make room in my freezer so that I can make ice cream so that I can make this. I love your ginger idea. That would just be amazing! And you're not a bad drizzler, but I know how you feel. I've gotten down the art of plopping chocolate on stuff and moving it around with my finger, but drizzling just isn't going to happen.
Ooh where did you get your coconut oil from, was it online? I normally use a mixture of glucose syrup and butter to make chocolate coating for ice cream but this sounds much easier (and healthier!).
@thelittleloaf - I picked up a jar in Panzer's in St John's Wood but I noticed last week that the organic health food/grocery shop round the corner from me in Maida Vale had some (although it was double the price). Admittedly, both of those shops are less helpful for you but a trip to Panzer's is always worth it!
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