Crème Anglaise Chocolate Mousse

Name: Crème Anglaise Chocolate Mousse
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: White Chocolate ‘Soil’; 1 egg yolk; 50 ml whipping cream; 10 g caster sugar; 140 g good quality dark chocolate (60% cocoa solids), broken into pieces; 50 ml whole milk; 180 ml whipping cream

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rococo

By Chantal Coady

Published 2012

About

This is a very smooth and creamy chocolate mousse with a quite different texture to a classic whipped egg mousse. It makes a perfect layered dessert with Whipped Strawberry Mousse, Power Granola and fresh strawberries.

Ingredients

For the custard (makes 100 ml)

1 egg yolk
10 g caster sugar
50 ml

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

First, make the custard. Whisk the egg yolk with the sugar in a bowl, a couple of hours in advance if possible. Heat the cream and milk in a heavy-based saucepan until simmering. Gradually whisk the hot cream and milk into the egg yolk mixture. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and cook over a gentle heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until the mixture reaches 82–84°C, at whic