Easy and Decadent Chocolate Mousse

Holy Easy Recipe, Batman!!

Seriously. It’s easy. It’s delicious. It’s decadent. It’s chocolate. Chocolate mousse.

The first time I ever had chocolate mousse was on a cruise to Cozumel, Mexico with my Girl Scout Troop and I was 14. It was drizzled with Kaluhua and oh man. It was delicious.

I had intended to make this at Christmas but I just never got around to it. So here we are coming up on Valentine’s Day and oh what a treat this would be to make for your favorite chocolate lover(s).

What you will need:

8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

2 cups of heavy whipping cream, evenly divided

24 1 ½ inch pastry shells (or make a parfait with champagne flutes)

Raspberries or strawberries for garnish

 

1. Put the chocolate chips into a 2 quart mixing bowl (glass). Bring 1 cup of the heavy whipping cream to a boil (stirring regularly) and pour over chocolate chips. Let sit for a few minutes to melt the chocolate. Stir until smooth and let cool to room temperature.
   (If it looks like it’s cooling off before fully mixed together, put about 3 cups of water into a pot on the stove, place the mixing bowl over the pot and stir. Steam from the pot will heat the bowl just enough).
    
2. While the chocolate mixture is cooling, whip the remaining heavy cream until stiff peaks form, then fold in chocolate mixture. *Be careful not to over whip or you will end up with butter.*  Pipe or spoon mousse into pastry shells. Garnish as desired with raspberries or strawberries

I folded the whip cream into the chocolate mixture and it turned out fine so I suppose it could work either way. One thing to note when folding, try to keep motion going in one direction like clockwise or counterclockwise.

The first time I made this recipe, I created a raspberry “compote” or syrup and layered into champagne flutes to make a sort of parfait. You can make the mousse ahead of time and keep chilled until you need to spoon or pipe it into pastry shells or other dish. As is with the pastry shells, it should make 24 servings…fewer if you go the parfait route.


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