Chocolate mousse is a delicious and impressive dessert that can help to end a dinner party on a rich, flavoursome note.
The key to making a successful and creamy mousse is to invest in good-quality ingredients, use clean, dry utensils, and to allow sufficient time for your mousse to set. Chocolate mousse is an ideal excuse to enhance your pantry ingredients with gourmet products like dark Dutch cocoa, and 70% cocoa cooking chocolate.
To tempt the tastebuds with imaginative versions of traditional chocolate mousse, take a look at the recipes from Donna Hay and Australian Gourmet Traveller. In addition, these three hints should help to make your mousse-making stress-free:
- Stay alert when melting the chocolate, and take care to not let it burn. This may spoil the flavour of your mousse.
- Treat your chocolate mousse with the care that is required when making meringues. Be diligent when cracking eggs to ensure that no yolk is mixed in with the egg whites.
- Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (or you could use a double saucepan). This will help you avoid over-heating the chocolate.
