Jack-O'-Lantern & Espelette Pepper Recipe
A "Jack-o’-lantern" is traditionally a lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin, carved to create a face.
Serves 4:
- 4 oranges
- 250g of chocolate
- 3 eggs
- 30g of caster sugar
- 10cl of heavy cream
- 100g of fruit and candy of your choice
- 1 Espelette pepper seasoning pencil
- Hollow out the oranges and save the juice.
- Carve a face into each orange.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
- Add the heavy cream, egg yolks, and sugar.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff and gently fold them into the mixture.
- Let the mousse rest in the refrigerator overnight.
- Fill the oranges with the chocolate mousse.
- Add the fruit or candy of your choice on top of your orange.
- Shave two curls from the Espelette pepper pencil over each orange.
- Enjoy with the orange juice saved at the beginning of the recipe.
