Chocolate mousse - light or dark
Chef: Ann Meyer
720 Afternoon's regular cook (Wednesdays at 2.45)
Smooth, delightful after dinner treats in your choice of colour
Serves 4
Degree of difficulty: Medium
You need:
170 grammes of white chocolate (use Swiss or Belgian)
65 grammes of egg whites, whipped
40 grammes of icing sugar, fold into the whipped egg whites
2 leafs of gelatine softened in 5 tablespoons of hot sugar syrup
250 grammes of sugar to 250 millilitres of water, heat gently till sugar is dissolved and syrupy, not coloured
100 millilitres of double cream, do not use thickened cream
400 millilitres of single cream
Method:
Melt chocolate gently over a double boiler… saucepan with 2 cm of water, simmering, chocolate in bowl over water.
Remove the saucepan from the heat the minute the chocolate starts to melt.
Whip the creams together until soft peaks form.
Fold into the chocolate. Add the gelatine and sugar syrup mixture.
Stir till combined with no lumps.
Fold in the egg whites
Use exactly the same method for dark chocolate mousse...just use dark chocolate.
Spoon into glasses or cylindrical moulds.
Leave to set in the fridge for two hours.
Serving Suggestion: With the white chocolate mousse serve berries and anglaise
With the dark chocolate mousse serve with orange segments.
Leftover Potential: Yum
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