Recipe for 4.5 cups of mousse (enough for an 8 inch cake 2-4 layers)

6 oz (170g) dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
3 TB (42g) unsalted butter
a couple of big pinches of salt
1 1/2 cups (360g) heavy whipping cream, cold from the fridge
1/2 cup (120g) full-fat sour cream, cold from the fridge
3/4 cup (90g) powdered sugar

For written instructions and all my notes
www.sugarologie.com/recipes/chocolate-mousse

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My favorite chocolate mousse filling for cakes uses no eggs or gelatin I chop up a dark chocolate bar into small pieces then add it to a bowl with some butter add a little bit of salt and microwave on 30 second intervals until the chocolate is smooth and shiny now I add

Some heavy whipping cream and a bit of sour cream to my bowl and whip it up until it’s slightly thickened I add some powdered sugar and whip it until I get soft peaks like this now I need to combine the chocolate with the cream and

The first time I did this I waited too long the chocolate had cooled too much and combined with the cold whipped cream the chocolate set before I could mix it all in on the second try I briefly reheated the chocolate in the microwave and folded it in quickly with the Whisk

So a mousse is a lightly textured aerated mixture and the aerated ingredient here is whipped cream so how is this mousse stable without the use of egg whites or gelatin the answer is chocolate chocolate contains cocoa butter which crystallizes or sets up firm and that stabilizes the mousse for

Filling cakes and that’s why

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  1. Recipe for 4.5 cups of mousse (enough for an 8 inch cake, 2-4 layers)

    6 oz (170g) dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
    3 TB (42g) unsalted butter
    a couple of big pinches of salt
    1 1/2 cups (360g) heavy whipping cream, cold from the fridge
    1/2 cup (120g) full-fat sour cream, cold from the fridge
    3/4 cup (90g) powdered sugar

    For written instructions and all my notes
    https://www.sugarologie.com/recipes/chocolate-mousse

  2. In cooking class I learned the difficult way to make chocolate mousse first, I was so annoyed when i discovered you could just throw chocolate at whipped cream XD

  3. Totally off topic but I think it’s been 10 years since I saw one of these bracelets and I adore you for it.

  4. Had to bust out the definition of mousse because people (I being one) were definitely gonna say that's not mousse that's chocolate whipped cream. I might still say it.

  5. I make cakes with just heavy cream, powdered sugar, and chopped strawberries in the middle is that not considered "stable? It stays firm for the most part.

  6. On a different note, do you know what to do with the flopped mixing? Sometimes out of my impatience the chocolate settles before mixing completely and I feel so bad about throwing the mix away😭😭 and I wonder if there’s something we can do?

  7. Made this but I added half a gelatin sheet for an extremely hot day. Absolutely delicious and was a big hit at the party!

  8. Would this work with using a non dairy whipping cream (with a high fat content still) such as coconut or oat cream? They do whip up but Im yet to try in a mousse?

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