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Hi Bold Bakers!
This is a simple and amazing dessert for Easter featuring lovely, thick Chocolate Mousse. I’ll show you how easy it is to make it BIG & BOLD into an impressive dessert for your Easter or any special event!
Learn how to make my Chocolate Mousse Pots with Strawberry Carrots, a perfect dessert for Easter or any special event.
Ingredients
- 8 oz Good quality chocolate (72% cocoa solids)
- 1 Tbsp Butter
- 1/2 Cup Warm water
- 6 Whole Eggs , separated
- Cookie dirt
- 10 Oreo cookies (without the centre)
- Strawberry Carrots
- 8 oz White chocolate chips
- 1 Tbsp Veg/canola oil
- 2 Drops s Orange food coloring
Instructions
Put the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and put over simmer water ( ban Marie) to melt
Gently stir until melted
Remove rom the heat and cool
Whisk the eggs whites in a large clean bowl until stiff peeks form
Whisk the egg yolks into the chocolate mix until combined
Then gently fold in the egg whites into the chocolate mix also. Start by folding in 1 spoonful to loosen the mix, then fold in the rest
Spoon the mousse into your prepared, lined pots. Fill up to the top to make for nice presentation
For you cookie 'dirt' crumbs
In a food processor or with a rolling pin make crumbs with your cookies. Leave some texture in your crumb so it looks like real lumps of dirt
For the Strawberry Carrots
Gently melt your white chocolate ( if microwaving do short intervals as it burns easily)
Mix in the oil and food coloring. If it is a bit too thick then add a little more oil. It should be runny. If you need to add more food coloring do until you reach your desired orange
Pull back the hull so you don't get chocolate in it and it keeps green.
Roll the strawberry and the edge of the bowl to get a good, clean coating of chocolate. Lift out, shake off any excess chocolate and lay to set on parchment paper
Roll the strawberry in chocolate as close to the hull as possible so you can't see any strawberry left
I drizzled over lines on my carrots to make them look more authentic. Do this using a little piping bag or drizzle the chocolate off a spoon. You may need to reheat the chocolate to thin it out
( I know that when you try this you will realize it is not as easy as I make it sound. My first batch looks pretty sad. The second one was much better. You will get the hang of it 🙂
The Assembly
Generously scatter the cookie 'dirt' over the chocolate mousse
Stick the strawberry 'carrot' in the dirt so it looks like it's growing out of the pot
To really impress your family and friends, pick up some fun Easter bits at a craft store and decorate a plate with chicks, eggs and all things Easter