{"id":5837,"date":"2016-07-18T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homanathome.com\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2024-02-13T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:07:54","slug":"chocolate-mousse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homanathome.com\/2016\/07\/chocolate-mousse\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ingredient Super Simple Classic Chocolate Mousse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Whip up this authentic French mousse au chocolate<\/em> in just minutes. It’s rich, it’s decadent, and it’s so, so easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Almost 10 years ago now, I worked at La Ferme des Bisons<\/a> in Belgium. It\u2019s this really cool American West themed park with a hotel, museum, domesticated buffalo, and, you guessed it, a restaurant. My favorite job a the restaurant was to make the week\u2019s mousse. It was easy: I had a written recipe so my tenuous grasp on the language wasn\u2019t a problem, and it meant I didn\u2019t have to cut hundreds of radishes into the shape of flowers (my least favorite job!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I came back to America, I looked for a good recipe. I was surprised to find that most recipes called for heavy whipping cream or only used part of the egg. The recipe I used in Belgium didn\u2019t do either of those things. I experimented, trying to turn the restaurant-sized recipe into a family-sized one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until I was flipping through a cookbook called  French Classics Made Easy<\/em><\/a> by Richard Grausman that I saw something that looked familiar. A few tweaks to make it match my memories, and here it is: one extremely simple chocolate mousse recipe that is authentically French (or Belgian, I guess). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you know this homemade chocolate mousse is authentic? There is no heavy cream and you use the whole egg. The lightness comes from whipping the egg whites, while the richness comes from the combination of egg yolks and melted chocolate. It’s a perfectly delicious, as well as pretty darn easy, way to create a gourmet and decadent dessert!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n