Recipe #34 - Easy Chocolate Mousse

Some foods are really not good for you, but they are so delicious that frankly you just don't care.  Right?  That's how recipes that include heavy whipping cream are with me.  They are so full of fat and they require me to get my butt on the elliptical, but I do it without complaining because I love them.

Enter chocolate mousse that contains heavy whipping cream.  Pretty sure I could eat this entire recipe worth of mousse.  Okay, maybe not in one sitting, but over the course of a day.  Its like fluffy goodness in my mouth.  Its probably a good thing that heavy whipping cream is not a typical item found in my fridge.

You can find this recipe on page 234 in the cookbook.  It isn't on the website as a recipe all by itself, but it is the mousse that you use to put in this cake (which is to-die-for-amazing).

First you combine the gelatin and cold water and allow it to stand for a minute.

Next you add boiling water to the gelatin, whisk it together and allow it to cool.

Then you combine the rest of the ingredients and beat until medium-stiff peaks form. Next mix in the gelatin until combined.

Put into individual cups for serving, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

I'm made this before without a problem.  Its been delicious every time.  This time, I must not have stirred the gelatin mixture in well enough because there were some blobs of gelatin in the mousse.  Either I was the only one who got them or everyone else was too kind to tell me.  (Served them to a couple people at a meeting we had at my house.)  It was really quite distracting to pull out gelatin chunks, so its not like they just wouldn't have noticed if they had them in theirs.

Moral of this story?  Mix in your gelatin completely.

This really is a good dessert.  You could serve it with fresh berries, put it in cream puffs, use it as filling for a cake, etc.  Pretty sure that I'll do a little exploring with this one!