Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Cream Cups
Ingredients
- 16 fluted paper baking cups
- 1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 (3 or 3 1/4 ounce) box regular vanilla pudding mix
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatine
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
- 2 cups Half-and-Half
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
- Chocolate sprinkles
- 16 maraschino cherries, drained
Instructions
- Same day or several days before serving: Put cups in muffin tins. In double boiler over hot, not boiling water, melt chocolate pieces with shortening; keep warm. Starting from top rim of each paper cup, drizzle chocolate 1 heaping teaspoon at a time down
inside of cup. About 3 teaspoons will cover entire inside of each cup. Refrigerate.
- Early on serving day; remove a few cups at a time from refrigerator. Gently, but quickly peel paper away from each, leaving a chocolate cup. Refrigerate.
- In medium saucepan, combine pudding mix, gelatine and coffee powder.
- Stir in Half-and-Half. Cook as label directs.
- Cover surface with wax paper and refrigerate until cool.
- With rubber spatula gently fold whipped cream into mixture.
- Fill chocolate cups and refrigerate.
- Sprinkle each cup with chocolate sprinkles; top each with a cherry.