Chocolate Pots de Creme Recipe

I love chocolate. That is my sole purpose for making this recipe. It looks and sounds delicious, and also simple. It's also an excuse to eat a bunch of chocolate out of a bowl.

Ingredients:

• "1 1/3 cups heavy (double) cream
• 1 1/3 cups whole milk
• 6 oz. bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder or instant coffee powder
• 6 large egg yolks
• 1/4 cup sugar"

(Dodge 97).

This recipe called for a double boiler to melt the chocolate, which we didn't have. (Dodge 97). We improvised and used two normal saucepans. The most valuable thing I learned from reading and creating this recipe was the concept of using similar objects to simulate the same effect. During my other recipes I was always concerned with following the recipe exactly, but with this recipe I used improvisation and it still turned out delicious! 

Citation: Dodge, Abigail Johnson. Dessert. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Print.

Question: Do you like chocolate? Have you ever improvised on a recipe and it still turned out great? If not, was it because of your improvisation?