Julia Child’s Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 8 minutes

Total Time: 23 minutes

Who doesn’t have a crush on chocolate mousse? For most of us, it is probably the first thing to grab from a dessert bar at buffet dinners. Chocolate mousse looks heavenly when spooned into a sleek wine glass and topped with some strawberries. Whether you are a dessert lover or a weight-conscious person, you simply cannot resist this amazing mousse by Julia Child.

Ingredients:

• Eggs: 4 (divided)
• Orange liquor: ¼ cup
• Sugar: ¾ cups
• Semi-sweet chocolate: 6 oz or 1 cup
• Strong coffee: 4 tablespoons
• Pinch of salt
• Butter: 6 oz or 1 cup (softened)
• Sugar: 1 tablespoon
• Glazed orange peel: ¼ cup (finely diced)

Directions:

Procedure

Beat sugar and egg yolks together until the mixture thickens. Make sure that the egg mixture is yellow and forms a dissolving ribbon. Put some orange liquor into the mixture and beat it.

Take a pan and pour some water into it. Heat the water on a medium to high heat. Set the bowl containing the mixture over hot water. Make sure that the water is not boiling. It should be warm, but not simmering. Continue beating for about 3 to 4 minutes until the egg-and-orange-liquor mixture is foamy. Take it off when you think the mixture is too hot for you to touch.

Take a pot full of cold water and put the bowl containing egg yolk, sugar and liquor mixture over it and continue beating for another 3 to 4 minutes to the point when it cools down and start forming the ribbons again. The mixture will start having a consistency and uniformity of mayonnaise.

Take a pot and heat some water. Melt the coffee and chocolate over that pot of hot water. Take the bowl off and put butter into the mixture. Make sure that you beat butter one piece at a time in order to make a batter with smooth consistency. Beat the chocolate and egg yolks together. Next, put the orange peel and beat the mixture.

Put egg whites in a bowl and beat them together with salt until soft peaks are formed. Once you get to that point, sprinkle sugar over it and beat the mixture until stiff peaks start to form. Take about 1/4 of the egg whites and stir them into the chocolate mixture. Take the rest and fold it in. Take the mousse out into serving dish, petit pots, or dessert cups, and put them in refrigerator. Let them refrigerate for about 2 hours. It is better if you leave them overnight.

Note: If you do not like your mousse to be too sweet, you can lessen the amount of sugar according to your taste. Using darker chocolate is another alternative that works perfectly well.

Enjoy!