Bittersweet Chocolate-orange Fondue

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/3 cup whipping cream
• 1 1/2 teaspoons orange peel, grated
• 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (not unsweetened or semisweet chocolate)
• 3 tablespoons grand marnier (or other orange liqueur)
• angel food cake (or pound cake)
• strawberry, hulled
• kiwi fruit, peeled, each cut into 4 rounds
• 1 small pear, cored, cut into 1-inch pieces
• banana, cut into 8 rounds
• orange, peel and pith removed, cut into sections
• dried calimyrna fig
• dried apricot halves

Recipe

• 1 bring whipping cream and grated orange peel to simmer in heavy medium saucepan. reduce heat to low. add chopped chocolate and 1 tablespoon grand marnier; whisk until mixture is smooth. remove fondue from heat and blend in remaining 2 tablespoons grand marnier.
• 2 transfer fondue to fondue pot. place over candle or canned heat burner. serve with cake pieces and fruit for dipping.