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Chocolate Mousse
Recipe courtesy Gourmet Magazine
- Total Time:
- 25 min
- Prep:
- 5 min |
- Inactive Prep:
- -- |
- Cook:
- 20 min
- Level:
- Easy
- Yield:
- 7 cups
Ingredients
- 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate
- 1 1/2 ounces butter
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 ounce water
- 2 ounces sugar
- 5 egg whites
- 8 ounces heavy cream, whipped
- Rum
Directions
Combine the chocolate and butter and melt over a hot-water bath.
Combine the egg yolks with the water and 1 ounce sugar and whisk over a hot-water bathe to 145 degrees F for 15 seconds. Remove from the heat and whip until cool.
Combine the egg whites with the remaining 1 ounce sugar and whisk over a hot-water bathe to 145 degrees F. Remove the whites from the heat and beat to full volume. Continue beating until cool.
Using a large rubber spatula, fold the egg whites into the egg yolks.
Fold the butter-chocolate mixture into the egg mixture.
Fold in the whipped cream. Add the rum, to taste.