When you are pregnant, you need decadent food! This recipe is spot on and it comes from one of my favourite French cookbook entitled Classiques de grand-maman. It is full of classic recipes our French grand-mothers and mothers used to cook. So it does apply to people who want to prepare down-to-earth gorgeous French cooking without spending a lot of money on rare ingredients. Actually, I do think that the magic of French cuisine comes from the fact it involves basic (mainly dairy) ingredients such as butter, milk, eggs, crème fraîche...

Instead of buying expensive (and not so good) vanilla, coffee or chocolate puds (those in little pots) from the supermarket, why don't you make your own? They're easy to prepare, you know exactly which ingredients are in there (no strange additives!) and they come out to be cheaper!

For chocolate pots, all you need are the following basic ingredients:

• 200g dark chocolate bar
• 50cl milk
• 6 egg yolks
• 100g caster sugar
• 1 tbsp bitter cocoa powder
• 200g thick or double cream (crème fraîche)

First, chop up the chocolate.
In a pan, bring the milk to boil.
Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until the mixture gets white.
Add the cocoa powder. At this stage, you can add a bit of the hot milk to get the mixture smoother.
Pour the mixture into the hot milk pan. Now turn down the heat and stir constantly with a wooden spoon until the cream thickens.
When the cream has thickened, remove the pan from the heat and add the chopped up chocolate. Incorporate it until obtaining a smooth consistency.
Add the double cream and stir well.
Pour the cream in six ramekins, cups or small moulds (or anything you have!) and cover each one with cling film.
Leave to cool down for at least two hours before savouring them!

You can also try the Minute Cake from the same cookbook.