Light, soft and creamy this eggless easy chocolate mousse recipe is a gorgeous dessert for everything from weeknights to weekends.
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups whipping cream (divided ½ cup & 2 cups)
- 200 g dark chocolate (50% cocoa solids) (7oz)
- 57 g unsalted butter (2oz / ½ stick / ¼ cup)
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar (powdered sugar) (notes 1)
For best results, always weigh ingredients where a weight is provided
Equipment
- mixing bowls
- Electric handheld mixer
Instructions
- Pour ½ cup cream into a small saucepan and the remaining cream into a glass bowl and place in the fridge.
- Heat the ½ cup of cream, chocolate, butter and sugar over very low heat and stir until it's all about 90% melted. Remove from heat and keep stirring until it's a smooth ganache.
- Pour it straight into a large bowl and let it cool to room temperature.
- Once the ganache has cooled, beat the remaining 2 cups cream to firm peaks. .
- Using a spatula, stir about ½ cup of the whipped cream straight through the ganache to lighten it.
- Now gently fold in half of the remaining whipped cream until there are just a few streaks left. Follow that with the remaining whipped cream, just carefully folding until it's all mixed in.
- Spoon or pipe the mousse into glasses or ramekins, before chilling in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.
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Notes
- Tablespoons: I use a standard Australian 20ml tablespoon (equal to 4 teaspoons). Check yours before measuring.
- Make sure to use very low heat to melt everything together and stop when it's 90% done so you don't burn or overheat the chocolate.
- Make sure to fold so you don't knock the air out of the whipped cream.
- Can be made a couple of days ahead and should be stored in the fridge covered with plastic wrap. Will last 2-3 days.
- Nutrition details are approximate only - scroll below the recipe to find the full nutritional information.
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