New Orleans French Quarter Coffee Mousse

It is essential to use New Orleans roast or espresso coffee granules or the taste will be too flabby. for a complete explanation of the sugar syrup technique. This mousse has the nice, barely sour taste of the old-fashioned French mousses prepared with diluted crème fraîche, as they were before the French developed the same type of heavy cream we have in America for use in pastries and desserts.