Chocolate Tamales

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Tamale filling:

4 cups butter

7 cups of semisweet chocolate

1 cup cocoa

1/3 cup cornstarch

2 1/2 cups refined sugar

15 egg yolks

15 egg whites

1/4 cup cardamom

Chili paste:

14 guajillo chilis

2 1/2 cups piloncillo or brown sugar

1 1/4 cups water

Directions:

1. Form a ganache with chocolate and butter.
2. Let it cool a little, add egg whites and sugar until a meringue is formed, and then add yolks, lower blender to speed 1 and add cocoa and cornstarch.
3. Add the ganache: only a part and then the rest. Add outside the mixer with the help of a rasp.

See Chef Gerardo Rivera's Other Sweet Mexican Dessert/Beverage Recipes

• Chocolate Tamales

• Ponche de Frutas