Showing posts with label mousse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mousse. Show all posts

Monday, 29 July 2013

kahlua and chocolate mousse


The first time I made chocolate mousse was when my sister had her wisdom teeth out, and for a week, she couldn’t eat anything solid. I would get up every morning and puree fruit for her breakfast, and I made a simple chocolate mousse for her desserts. I am a damn good little sister.


I made this chocolate and Kahlua mousse for my 18th birthday dinner, where I also served baked churros. This recipe is from this book, it worked perfectly and was a very easy recipe, although I did change it slightly by replacing some of the Kahlua with water, as I didn’t want it to taste too alcohol-y. I served the mousse topped with some slightly sweetened whipped cream piped with a closed star tip, which is my favourite type of piping nozzle; I also dusted the mousse cups with cocoa.

mint and white chocolate mousse tart


This was the first tart I have ever made, and I was so pleased with the results. My mum was having friends over for dinner and cooking a recipe from the cookbook ‘Jerusalem’. Inspired by the Arabic theme of the meal, I decided to use mint, which is a popular flavour in Middle Eastern sweets. Although that’s about where the Arabic inspiration ends.