Madame Dumouchel’s Classic French Chocolate Mousse

Name: Madame Dumouchel’s Classic French Chocolate Mousse
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 6 egg yolks; 9 egg whites; l/2 cup (4 oz/125 g) superfine (caster) sugar; ½ cup (2 oz/50 g) unsalted butter, softened; 8 oz (250 g) best-quality bittersweet (dark) chocolate

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 1993

About

A simple, soft chocolate mousse.

Ingredients

8 oz (250 g) best-quality bittersweet (dark) chocolate
½ cup (2

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Slowly melt the chocolate. Beat with the butter in a large bowl.

Using an electric mixer, whisk the egg whites until frothy. Add 1 tbsp. of the sugar and continue beating on low. When the sugar dissolves, increase the speed to the maximum. When the egg whites are stiff, shake the remaining s