Sunday, March 1, 2009

Yum.... dessert








This beautiful image is what the chocolate mouse I'm making today should look like. I photographed my process of making this delicious mouse to not only show you would a fantastic cook I am, but to possibly help you. Hope it'll help a bit....

Okay, so heres what we needed;
two tablespoons of butter cut into seven pieces, or in other words, Paula Dean's dream.

Next we needed six ounces of bittersweet chocolate (Yummy!)


I was so tempted to eat those! Anyway, after getting the chips we had to get three egg whites.

That is sooo hard to do! It took my dad to get the job done. I recommend you do it above a bowl. Next step is to get a pinch of salt.



Then you get three tablespoons of sugar. Sorry, no photo for this one, clumsy me forgot to take a photo of it. So, now you have all your prep done.
Now you have to melt the chocolate, to do this, you have to fill up a skillet with water and put the chocolate chips in a non melting bowl, like something made of glass, and put it in the skillet, bowl and all. Put the oven on low to medium heat until the chocolate chips are melted, like so.


Doesn't it look good and yummy? So next you take your egg whites, your salt, and sugar. First you mix the egg whites and the salt together until you see soft peaks. once you see the soft peaks, slowly poor in your sugar, until the soft peaks turn to stiff peaks. When completes, it should look like this;


It looks like a meringue mix! After you finish that, you have to beat three quarters of a cup of cream. No picture sadly, but it looks like whipped cream.

After this, you have to mix a fourth of the egg mixture into the chocolate and fold in.

This is it at the beginning. When your done, it should have NO streaks in it. When you're done, add the rest of the cream and the egg mixture, and fold it once more. Put it in a glass, and you are ready to enjoy, but I recommend putting it in the fridge for a while.

Heres the finished product.


Yummy!

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