Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate mousse is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the core fruit category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 150 g dark chocolate
- 150 g milk chocolate
- 20 ml orange liqueur
- 5 eggs
- 3 tbsp vanilla sugar
- 125 g chilled whipping cream
- 50 g sugar
- 4 ripe pears
- juice of 1 lemon
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 500 ml sweet white wine
- 50 g dark couverture
Instructions
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1.
Coarsely chop the chocolate and melt it with the orange liqueur in a double boiler. Remove from heat.
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2.
Separate the eggs. Beat the yolks with vanilla sugar until frothy, until the sugar dissolves.
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3.
Whip the chilled cream to stiff peaks.
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4.
Beat the egg whites with sugar into stiff meringue.
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5.
Add the yolk mixture to the chocolate and fold in with a whisk. Spoon the whipped cream onto the chocolate mixture and quickly fold it in with the whisk before the mixture sets.
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6.
Gently fold in the meringue.
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7.
Seal the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
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8.
Wash, peel, and drizzle the pears with lemon juice.
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9.
Dissolve sugar in a little water and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Add wine and pears and steam covered for about 15 minutes until soft.
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10.
Remove the pears from the liquid and cut into slices.
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11.
Reduce the wine liquid to a syrupy consistency and drizzle over the pears before serving.
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12.
Melt finely chopped couverture in a double boiler. Fill a piping bag with a small round tip and pipe the melted chocolate onto parchment paper as desired, then let it set.
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13.
For serving, use a spoon to scoop mousse onto dessert plates with pear slices and decorative chocolate strands.
