The Chocolate Mousse

Since chocolate behaves much like flour when baked, it is possible to use this basic chocolate mousse recipe to make several desserts that normally contain flour. For example, baked in a cake pan it makes Chocolate Mousse Cake. If you bake it in a jelly-roll pan, you have a chocolate roll. Baked in a soufflé mold, it is Chocolate Soufflé. For a delicious Fallen Chocolate Soufflé, the mousse is baked in a soufflé mold in a water bath (bain-marie). You can also make a wonderfully simple variation of the chocolate mousse by freezing it and serving it in slices (see Chocolate Marquise).