Yes, I am actually useless at updating blogs, deal with it. Or, somebody pay me to update it every other day. Or send me free food to cook every day, and I shall document it. Hooray! In other news, I made a birthday cake recently. My god, I never want to see a cake again, well, not until Easter, when I shall be baking a TARDIS shaped cake for the new series launch night of Doctor Who (having a little get together with my friends to watch it, dress up and be geeks, drunk geeks, that is!)
So, to the recipe I’m going to share, yes? It’s a lovely (trust me, I’m writing this up just after polishing off one of them, I’ve got three left!).
White Chocolate & Peppermint Mousse
Ingredients :
- 200g good Quality White Chocolate
- 200ml Double Cream
- 1 Egg White
- 1/4-1/2tsp Peppermint Extract (basically, do it to taste)
- Mint Aero or Mint Leaves for decoration
Method :
- Break the white chocolate into small pieces, and put in a bowl over a pan of gently simmering water (bain marie), and allow to gently melt.
- Whilst chocolate is melting, whisk the double cream, egg white and peppermint extract to form soft peaks.
- Take the molten chocolate off the heat, and allow to cool for a few minutes, but keep stirring it, so that it doesn’t cool solid on the side of the bowl.
- Once cooled slightly, add a tablespoon of the double cream and egg white mixture to the chocolate, and stir thouroughly through the white chocolate to slacken it.
- Add the white chocolate to the rest of the double cream mixture, and fold into it. (At this point I had a catastrophe and the chocolate was slightly too warm, and made the mixture go too runny… most chefs and TV cooks would look at me with horror when I suggest this, but they’re just being purists, if it looks too runny, just whisk it again until it goes to slightly stiff peaks)
- Pour the mousse into serving dishes/glasses/bowls and leave in the fridge to set for at least an hour.
- Before serving either grate a piece of Mint Aero or a couple of mint leaves (I opted for the Mint Aero, because I’m greedy you see)
- Try and wait till you sit down to devour it. Yummy
So there you go… oh, and what’s this… PICTURES!!! Yaay! (I’m hoping this works, because it’s changed since last time I put a photo on here)
This I’ll have to try. Or, I’ll come over and ask you to make some. Looks delishiss.
I went and made this today.. well sort of…. We don’t have double cream here so i used whipping cream instead (seems to work fine). We also don’t have mint aero so i used chocolate mint sticks from Aldi instead. I also couldn’t find mint extract so i just melted some mint sticks along with the white chocolate instead (hence the caramely look). And i did use fresh mint, because i’m a show off
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