Chocolate Mousse Pudding

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Preparation info
  • Six

    4 oz dishes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
It's a Sweet World: Recipes from Around the Globe at Bea’s Bakery

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

  • About

You’ve probably all heard of the French post-Impressionist painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who was famous for painting Parisian café society, circus performers, and can-can dancers at the Moulin Rouge, but did you know that he is also credited with inventing chocolate mousse?

The man, who stood at only 1.4 meters because of a bone disease, died of his hedonistic lifestyle at the age of thirty-six, but produced many iconic artworks that chronicled the social history of the time. He w