This is a dark chocolate mousse. Not a milk chocolate mousse wearing a costume, not a mousse built for kids. A full eight ounces of 70%, and the sugar stays at a quarter cup so it never buries the cocoa. The result is direct. A little bitter on the finish, the way good chocolate should be. Want it sweeter? Use milk chocolate, it works. But try it at 70% at least once!<\/p>\n
Look at almost any chocolate mousse recipe out there: raw egg whites beaten to stiff peaks and folded into melted chocolate. It makes a lovely mousse. It also puts raw eggs into a dessert you are about to serve your mother-in-law, a pregnant friend, a six-year-old. Here the yolks go through a custard cooked to 160\u00b0F. The thermometer goes in, you watch the number climb, and at 160 you are done. Safe, and here is the part nobody expects: the texture is actually better, because there are no poorly folded whites leaving dry pockets behind.<\/p>\n
I will not pretend otherwise, this one takes patience. An hour for the chocolate base to come back down to room temperature, then four hours in the fridge. That is the price of the texture. The hands-on time, though, is thirty minutes. You put it together on a Friday afternoon, you forget about it, and that evening you pull out six glasses of dark chocolate mousse with whipped cream piled on at the last second. It looks like a restaurant dessert. It is a hand mixer and a saucepan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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