White Chocolate Mousse

Name: White Chocolate Mousse
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 14 oz. fresh raspberries confectioners’ sugar, to taste; 1 teaspoon raspberry framboise (eau de vie), optional; 1¼ cups whipping cream, whisked until it starts to thicken; 2 large egg whites; 1 teaspoon raspberry framboise (eau de vie), optional; 1½ sheets of leaf gelatin; ¼ cup sugar; 4½ oz. white couverture chocolate, broken into pieces (about ¾ cup), plus ½ oz., finely grated

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 2005

About

For a dinner party, put the fresh raspberry purée in the bottom of attractive wine glasses and pipe the mousse over the top.

Ingredients

4½ oz. white couverture chocolate, broken into pieces (about ¾ cup), plus ½ oz., finely grated

Dinner
Dessert
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

To make the raspberry purée, put the fruit in a blender with confectioners’ sugar to taste, and whizz until smooth. If you prefer a smooth result, push the raspberry purée through a fine-mesh nylon strainer to remove the seeds. Divide the purée among the glass dishes.

Put the chocolate pieces in the top of a double boiler set over simmering, but not boiling, water (do not let the bottom