Petits Pots de Crème au Chocolat (Chocolate Custards)

Illustration by E. Ronjat, engraved by C. Laplante, from Le Livre de Pâtisserie by Jules Gouffé, Paris, 1873.

Petits pots de crème present chocolate in a particularly luscious form. Unlike crèmes caramels, they always remain in their little cups — they don’t contain any egg white, so they don’t hold a shape. Whether you prefer 60 percent chocolate, 70 pe…