Classic Chocolate Mousse

Name: Classic Chocolate Mousse
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 150 ml whipping cream; 3 eggs, separated, at room temperature; 320 g Valrhona Manjari dark chocolate (64% cocoa solids), broken into small pieces; 320 g Valrhona Manjari dark chocolate (64% cocoa solids), broken into small pieces; 60 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rococo

By Chantal Coady

Published 2012

About

Chocolate mousse can be difficult to get right, but a ganache base makes perfect mousse every time. Work quickly when incorporating the mixtures, to avoid the mousse cooling and solidifying.

Ingredients

320 g Valrhona Manjari dark chocolate (64% cocoa solids), broken into small pieces
150 ml whipping cream

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a bain-marie. Remove the bowl from the heat and set aside.

Pour the whipping cream into a heavy-based saucepan and heat until almost boiling, then remove the pan from the heat and gradually pour the melted chocolate into the pan, incorporating it into the chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula, until mixture is smooth and glossy. Whisk the egg yolks, s