Holy Nodule Soufflé
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TypeDessert
Serves4 people
DateOctober 13, 2026
Soufflé as lung, with an ice cream scoop as nodule: hopeful, warm, and comforting.
A warm soufflé with round scoops of vanilla ice cream, presented as a lung with a clear nodule. This dessert refers to the Pope's lung surgery, offering comfort in a dish: airy, warm, and hopeful.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 60 g sugar
- 40 g flour
- 250 ml whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 30 g butter (plus extra for greasing)
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Powdered sugar, for dusting
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Lightly grease a large oval baking dish with butter.
- Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites stiff with half the sugar.
- Whisk the yolks with the remaining sugar until light yellow and creamy.
- Sift the flour over the yolks and mix in.
- Heat the milk with the vanilla extract until just below boiling.
- Slowly pour into the yolk mixture, whisking constantly.
- Gently fold in the egg whites.
- Pour the mixture into the baking dish and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and puffed.
- Remove from the oven. Immediately place 3 scoops of ice cream in a row on one side (the lung), and 1 scoop slightly apart, half on the edge, as the 'nodule'.
- Dust with powdered sugar for a soft finish.
Serving notes
- Serve straight from the oven so the soufflé is nicely puffed.
- Add the ice cream scoops at the table, so they slowly melt on the warm soufflé.
- Give everyone a spoon to share from the dish.