Recipes, Desserts

Easter chocolate mousse

Ingredients

Serves 5

Difficulty : easy
Price : budget bake

Preparation time : 20 min
+ 2 hours resting time
Cooking time : 5 min

Chocolate mousse
  • 100 g dark baking chocolate
  • 40 g butter
  • 25 g sugar
  • 4 egg white (about 120 g)
  • 1 egg yolk

Strawberry "carrots"
  • 5 nices strawberries "carrots"
  • 100 g white chocolate
  • Red colouring
  • Yellow colouring

Decoration
  • 5 tablespoons dark chocolate coated popping candy (or chocolate chips)

Instructions

Mousse preparation
•   Whisk the egg whites and sugar to form a stiff, frothy mixture, taking care not to over-whisk.
•   Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler.
•   Put the egg yolk in a mixing bowl. Add half the warm chocolate/butter mixture. Mix with a whisk.
•   Add the rest of the chocolate/butter mixture.
•   Gently incorporate the egg whites with a spatula (half at a time).
•   Pipe the mixture into 5 individual ramekins using Le Tube fitted with the filling nozzle.
•   Leave in the fridge for 2 hours.



Strawberry "carrot" preparation
•    Melt the white chocolate.
•    Take it off the heat, add the yellow colouring and the red colouring, little by little, until you obtain the right shade of orange.
•    Dip your strawberries in the chocolate.
•    Let the chocolate harden.

Decoration
•  Place a strawberry in the center of each ramekin.
•  Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of popping candy around each strawberry and serve.

The result

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Emmanuelle, Casserole & Chocolat

After a career in industry, Emmanuelle decided to fully commit herself to her real passion — baking for her nearest and dearest.

 

She created her blog Casserole&Chocolat (www.casseroleetchocolat.fr) in 2017 and posts all her recipes there. These include sweet and savoury treats and breads, all using a traditional approach and local and seasonal produce. Emmanuelle has a gourmet openness to world cuisine and fills her baking with accents redolent of spices to take your taste buds on a journey.

 

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